Colin John McRae

Colin J. McRae (born Colin John McRae; October 22, 1812 – February 1877) was an American politician who had served as a Deputy from Alabama to the Provisional Congress of the Confederate States from 1861 to 1862.

Biography Colin J. McRae was born on October 22, 1812, in Anson County, North Carolina. His brother, John J. McRae, served as the 21st Governor of Mississippi (1854–1857). Some of these gunboats were used during the war.

McRae served as Confederate States Financial Agent in Europe from 1862 to 1865. He bequeathed the plantation and mercantile business to his sister and her husband. The location of his grave, in Belize, is unknown.

In October 2011, a college student at the University of New Hampshire found relics of his Belize plantation house on an archeological expedition in the middle of the Belize Valley. His records were found in Monterey Place in Mobile, Alabama. They are held at the South Carolina Confederate Relic Room and Military Museum, in Columbia, South Carolina.