I'm still waiting for my copy of Longstreet. Meanwhile, I'm building up my characters 
Gentlemen (and what few ladies may be theoretically reading this), I give you Colonel Dick Lequer….
Confederate Colonel Richard Lequer III, b. 1830
Father, Richard "Slippery Dick" Lequer Jr., b. 1805
Grandfather, Richard "Whiskey Dick" Lequer Sr., b. 1775, d. 1845
Richard "Little Dick" Lequer the Third is the youngest scion of an old Huguenot family (a distaff branch of the French De Monets) who originally came to the Americas in the late 17th century.
The founder of the American Lequers settled in Virginia and married Lady Melissa "Moll" Flanders, a temporarily embarrassed member of the English nobility. The family originally invested in tobacco farming, but lost their shirts. The specific branch of the Lequers that resulted in Richard then moved over the Appalachias into the Kentucky – Tennessee border region shortly before the Revolution.
A rare example of a southern self-made man in industry, Richard's grandfather, "Whiskey Dick" Lequer made his fortune selling "Lequer's Corn Liquor" all along the frontier, doing a particularly booming business supplying Indian Agents. Richard's dad "Slippery Dick", became a founding member of the Tennessee congress when that territory became a state.
Young Richard gained a political appointment as an ensign with the Tennessee Militia in the Mexican War. He was a shoe-in for regimental command when Tennessee raised its first regiments to fight the northern aggressors. Great things are expected of young Richard.
