Randall L. Gibson
Randall Lee Gibson (September 10, 1832 – December 15, 1892) was a U.S. Senator and a member of the House of Representatives from Louisiana. He was also a brigadier general in the Confederate States Army, a regent of the Smithsonian Institution, and a president of the board of administrators of Tulane University.
Read more about Randall L. Gibson: Early Life, Civil War, Postbellum Career, In Memoriam
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“She is not dead, nor deaf, nor dumb;
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She breathes! She burns! She’ll come!
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Maryland, my Maryland!”
—James Ryder Randall (1839–1908)
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—William Gibson (b. 1948)