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Descendant corrects spelling of ancestor's name: 'Stephens' TO THE EDITOR: As the great-grandson of John Alexander Stephens, I was shocked and dismayed to see that your fine newspaper had misspelled his last name as Stevens on the front page. Lieutenant John A. Stephens was not only the nephew of Alexander H. Stephens, but had an illustrious career in his short time on earth. He was a Lieutenant in the Confederate Signal Corps stationed at Port Hudson, Louisiana, and was captured there on July 5, 1863. He was imprisoned in a warehouse in New Orleans before being sent to the infamous Johnson's Island in Lake Erie outside Sadusky, Ohio. Abraham Lincoln, whom he met on two well-documented occasions, personally released him from prison. After his exchange, he continued to fight for the Confederacy until all hope was gone. He was the last of his widowed mother's four sons to return home. After the war he practiced law in Atlanta, became Adjutant General of Georgia, and in that capacity was part of Jefferson Davis' entourage when the latter came to Georgia as an honored guest. He was compelled to resign his post as Adjutant General due to blindness and died shortly thereafter from Bright's disease. Please be more careful when you print people's names, particularly as we want no affiliation with that thing called "Thaddeus!"
ED REYNOLDS
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