Confederacy
Fitzpatrick did not take a particularly active role in the politics of the Confederacy, but did serve as president of the constitutional convention of Alabama in 1865.
Fitzpatrick died on his plantation near Wetumpka, Alabama, on November 21, 1869, aged 67.
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