page_title: Robert Patterson
section_title: Postbellum life
hierarchical_section_title: Robert Patterson / Postbellum life
caption_attribution_description: English: Robert Patterson memorial and tombstone in Laurel Hill Cemetery. Photo taken June 2020.
context_page_description: Robert Patterson was an Irish-born United States major general during the American Civil War, chiefly remembered for inflicting an early defeat on Stonewall Jackson, but crucially failing to stop Confederate General Joseph E. Johnston from joining forces with P. G. T. Beauregard at the First Battle of Bull Run. He is still blamed for this historic Union defeat.
context_section_description: Patterson again returned to his cotton milling business and wrote a book, A Narrative of the Campaign in the Valley of the Shenandoah, in 1861, published in 1865. He was also President of the Aztec Club of 1847 from 1867 to 1881 and was a Companion of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States. During his tenure as President of the Aztec Club, the Club accomplished what few of its contemporaries did—the successful metamorphosis from a military society to an hereditary one. Patterson was also a trustee of Lafayette College from 1826 to 1835, and president of the trustees from 1876 to 1881.
  Patterson died in Philadelphia and is buried there in Laurel Hill Cemetery. His son Francis Engle Patterson and his son-in-law John Joseph Abercrombie were both Union generals during the American Civil War.  Patterson's mansion was located on the southwest corner of 13th and Locust Streets.  After Patterson’s death in 1881, the Historical Society of Pennsylvania purchased the mansion as its permanent home. The mansion was demolished between 1905 and 1909 and a new building dedicated in 1910.
caption: Robert Patterson memorial and tombstone in Laurel Hill Cemetery
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