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Mar 29, 1816 Bledsoe County, Tennessee, United States Died on 22 Jul 1869 (aged 53)
American politician and general
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About James G. Spears
- James Gallant Spears (March 29, 1816 – July 22, 1869) was an American general who served in the Union Army during the Civil War.
- Leading a unit composed primarily of Tennessee loyalists, he participated in early battles in the Cumberland Gap area before marching with the Army of the Cumberland at Stones River and Chickamauga.
- He later provided support for the Knoxville Campaign. An ardent Southern Unionist, Spears was appointed vice president of the 1861 East Tennessee Convention, which sought to form a separate, Union-aligned state in East Tennessee.
- He opposed the abolition of slavery, however, and was dismissed from the Army in 1864 for speaking out against the Emancipation Proclamation.
