Frank Alexander Montgomery (January 7, 1830 – December 16, 1903) was an American politician best known for his memoir of life as a

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officer in the Western Theater of the American Civil War (1861–1865) called ''Reminiscences of a Mississippian in Peace and War'' (1901).

Biography

Frank Alexander Montgomery was born on January 7, 1830, in

Adams County, Mississippi Adams County is a county located in the U.S. state of Mississippi. As of the 2020 census, the population was 29,538. The county seat is Natchez. The county is the first to have been organized in the former Mississippi Territory. It is named ...

, to James Jefferson Montgomery. He was Lieutenant-Colonel of the 1st Mississippi Cavalry Regiment during the American Civil War. He served eight years as a member of the

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and one term as

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of the Fourth Circuit Court District of Mississippi. He died on December 16, 1903, and is buried at Beulah Cemetery,

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*''Reminiscences of a Mississippian in Peace and War'' (1901)

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