Basil William Spalding

Basil W. Spalding was a Confederate Civil War veteran and tobacco farmer who lived in Charles County, Maryland. He was born at Pleasant Hill Plantation, which had been in his family for two hundred years and died at Green Park nearby. A native of Maryland, Spalding fought from 18621865 in the American Civil War in the name of the Confederacy after escaping from school to join the Great Adventure.

Basil Spalding was born on December 11, 1846 to John Spalding, a slaveholding tobacco plantation owner and his second wife, Mary Carroll, a greatgranddaughter of Daniel Carroll, a Founding Father of the United States. Very shortly after Spaldings birth, however, Mary Carroll died.

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