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Peter Charles Gaillard

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Preceded by
  
Charles Macbeth

Died
  
January 11, 1889

Name
  
Peter Gaillard


Religion
  
French Huguenot

Unit
  
1st Infantry Regiment

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Spouse(s)
  
Anne Lawrence Snowden Gaillard

Alma mater
  
South Carolina College (1832); United States Military Academy (West Point) (1835)

Allegiance
  
United States of America  Confederate States of America

Battles and wars
  
Second Seminole War, American Civil War

Succeeded by
  
William Wallace Burns

Peter Charles Gaillard was the thirty-eighth mayor of Charleston, South Carolina, serving in 1865-1868. He was the last mayor elected before the Civil War.

He died on January 11, 1889, and is buried at Magnolia Cemetery.

References

Peter Charles Gaillard Wikipedia