About Francis Fontaine
Lived 1845 – 1901 (aged 55). Francis Fontaine was an American military personnel, writer, poet, novelist and newspaper editor.
Francis Fontaine (May 7, 1845 – May 3, 1901) was an American Confederate soldier, plantation owner, newspaper editor, poet and novelist from the state of Georgia.
Early life Francis Fontaine was born on May 7, 1845, in Columbus, Georgia. His father, John Fontaine (1792–1866), had served as the mayor of Columbus from 1836 to 1837, and he was a planter.
During the American Civil War of 1861–1865, he joined the Confederate States Army and served as a private and aide-de-camp. In 1885, he remarried to Nathalie Hamilton.
Non-fiction The State of Georgia: What It Offers to Immigrants, Capitalists, Producers and Manufacturers, and Those Desiring to Better their Condition (1881).
Novels Etowah: A Romance of the Confederacy (1887). Amanda, the Octoroon (J. P. Harrison, 1891). The Modern Pariah: A Story of the South (1892).
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Francis Fontaine was born on 7 May 1845 in Columbus.
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Francis Fontaine died on 3 May 1901 in Atlanta.
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Francis Fontaine was a military personnel, writer, poet, novelist and newspaper editor.
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