caption serviceyears branch death_place death_date birth_place allegiance placeofburial_label battles birth_date rank image article_title name
st. john richardson liddell 1861 - 1865 csa new orleans , louisiana 1870 wilkinson county , mississippi confederate states of america place of burial american civil war 1815 35px brigadier general liddell.jpg st. john richardson liddell
 st. john r. lidell
st. john richardson liddell

st. john richardson liddell -lrb- september 6 , 1815 -- february 14 , 1870 -rrb- was a prominent louisiana planter who served as a general in the confederate states army during the american civil war .
he was an outspoken proponent of southern emancipation of slaves .
liddell was murdered by a former confederate officer near his home in 1870 .
