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Alexandre reveals more of a family and personal habit or rather of Duffié's intention to desert the French army in case of refusal of his request in order to mislead the military authorities. Once he arrived in
America, he never revealed his true first name "Napoléon" and everyone believed his given initial "N." meant "Nattie". At the time of his official funeral in Providence, July 10, 1889, nine years after his death, Lieutenant Samuel C. Willis Junior announced his real name: "One correction I wished to make in regard to General Duffié's name. His name was Alfred Napoléon Duffié, and not Alfred Nattie Duffié, as we have always supposed". Furthermore, his first name "Alfred" was invented by himself at the time of his desertion from the French army in 1859 in order to hide his real identity, as he was wanted by the army authorities in Paris as soon as his disappearance was noticed.
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Contemporary researchers also gave him the name "Alexander", which is not his real name either. The only document attesting to this first name is his official letter written in
Chartres on August 8, 1859 addressed to the Minister of War in Paris to ask for his resignation. The use of the first name
368:, Duffié was assigned to command the 2nd Cavalry Division. On June 9, 1863, Duffié's division was part of the left wing of an intended an assault on the Confederate cavalry but initially lost its way, putting them behind schedule. Meanwhile, the Union right wing had opened the
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Staten Island, Richmond County, NY Genealogical Resources
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