Lee's Officers

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I have previously mentioned that I am engaged in compiling biographical information on all officers of the Army of Northern Virginia below the rank of brigadier general.

I've got about 2,000 pages of text at present, and hope to publish a CD-ROM about three years from now. At some point I'd like to pick someone's brains about American copyright issues. But in the meantime I thought I'd post some entries which I hope will be of general interest. Starting with:

ALLEN, Lawrence M. Born in c.1833. Resident of Madison Co., N.C. Musician, Co.B, 16th N.C. Inf.: 29th April 1861. Captain, Co.H, 2nd N.C. Inf. Bn.: 4th July 1861. Captured and exchanged by 27th August 1862. By January 1863 he had been appointed Colonel of the 64th N.C. Inf. Glenn Tucker:- "Allen was known to be fearless; many who did not admire him had confidence in his leadership if they reached the battlefield, though it was said he could put away a goodly amount of liquor." The official historian of the regiment wrote of him in 1901: "Colonel Allen was not an attractive man - rather otherwise". He was implicated in the killing of a number of North Carolinian Unionists at Laurel Creek in February 1863: "Colonel Allen was not in command - according to [one] account he had been suspended for six months for drunkenness - but he appeared and told the prisoners they would be taken to Tennessee for trial." Instead, they were shot. Allen was also alleged to have been engaged in a $20,000 recruiting fraud by "selling substitutes". His resignation was accepted on 3rd June 1864 - he having been in limbo since the killings, out of command and unassigned. In 1866 he was charged with murder by the grand jury of Madison County and fled to Arkansas, where he settled in Round Prairie Township. He worked as a farmer and teacher, and died on 11th December 1903 at his farm near Decatur, Ark. [Tucker, Zeb Vance: Champion of Personal Freedom, pp.306-308; civilwardata.com]

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BALDWIN, Briscoe Gerard Born in Staunton, Va., on 12th August 1828. Graduated from V.M.I. in 1848. Captain & O.O., U.S. Army: 1851-61. Lieut. & O.O., C.S.A.: 16th March 1861, and assigned to duty at the Ordnance Bureau in Richmond. Commander of the Richmond Arsenal: 1st September 1861. Captain & O.O.: 1st January 1862. Captain & A.A.A.G. to R.E. Rodes: 16th April 1862. Major & O.O.: 12th June 1862. Acting Lt-Colonel of the 6th Ala. Inf. during the Seven Days, and was badly wounded in the lung at Malvern Hill on 1st July 1862. Lt-Col. & Chief of Ordnance to R.E.Lee: 29th November 1862. In his diary for 4th February 1863 John Esten Cooke wrote: “Day before yesterday galloped over to Col. Baldwin’s and chatted with him. Man after my own heart – likes to take long in dressing, and to do it lazily. Puts one boot half on, and then lights his pipe and studies the fire!” On 15th June 1864 Walter H. Taylor wrote: “One of our staff and a friend of mine – Col Baldwin – chief of ordnance is quite sick. He bitterly objects to going to a hospital, & is really endangering his life by remaining in camp…He is a nice fellow & a thorough gentn. His home is in Staunton.” By 3rd July Taylor thought him unlikely to survive. Was appointed at the recommendation of E.P. Alexander, who described him thus:- “A broad shouldered handsome six footer, with brown hair & eyes & a presence & bearing which inspired liking & confidence, Gen. Lee never changed him, & he was chief of ordnance to the close at Appomattox. And the friendship which he & I had declared in our correspondence, before we ever met, was a pleasure all through the war. His fate afterward, alas, was one of the tragedies which closed over many of those who in the war were excellent & devoted soldiers, & whose lives had we been successful had every promise of prosperity. I have never known the details but only heard that insanity & suicide finally ended poor Baldwin’s life…” He moved to Texas in 1870, where he was a cattle rancher on the Brazos River and school superintendent at Bryan. Died on 28th September 1898. Buried in Bryan City Cemetery. [Alexander, Fighting For The Confederacy, p.160; Krick, Staff Officers In Gray, p.66; Tower, Lee’s Adjutant: The Wartime Letters Of Colonel Walter Herron Taylor, 1862-1865, pp.167-8, 172; see C.V., 8, p.370, for an obituary.]

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Bill,

I would like to compliment you on your research and work here, a work that will definately contribute to history and the research of others.

I very much appreciate the fact that you have made each entry as complete as possible, to include 'warts and all.' Good luck with your efforts to put this on a CD and make it generally available to all and I thank you for sharing this with us here on the board.

Sincerely,
Unionblue

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MORGAN, Thomas Gibbes jr. Born in Baton Rouge, La., in c.1837. Son of Judge Thomas Gibbes Morgan. Farmer. Married Lydia Carter. Captain, Co.F, 7th La. Inf.: 18th September 1861. Wounded at Sharpsburg on 17th September 1862. On 4th October 1862 his sister wrote:- ""I have just come from seeing Gibbes's wound dressed. If that is a scratch, Heaven defend me from wounds! A minie ball struck his left shoulder strap, which caused it to glance, thereby saving the bone. Just above, in the fleshy part, it tore the flesh off in a strip three inches and a half by two. Such a great raw, green, pulpy wound, bound around by a heavy red ridge of flesh! He talked all the time, ridiculing the groans of sympathy over a 'scratch', and, oh, how I loved him for his fortitude!" He convalesced in Louisiana until February 1863. Was captured at Rappahannock Station on 7th November 1863. P.O.W. on Johnson's Island, where he died on 21st January 1864. He had been ill for some days with a headache and sore throat. His sister wrote:- "Captain Steadman, sick in the next bed, and those around him, said he had been talking pleasantly with them, when he sat up to reach for his cup of water on the table. As soon as he drank it he seemed to suffocate; and after tossing his arms wildly in the air, and making several fearful efforts to breathe, he died." [Dawson, A Confederate Girl’s Diary, pp.253 & 429.]

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FAUNTLEROY, Charles Magill Born on 21st August 1822. Son of Thomas T. Fauntleroy. Brother of Thomas Turner Fauntleroy [q.v.] Lieut., U.S.N. Colonel of the 1st U.S. Dragoons. Mexican War veteran. Acting A.D.C. to J.E. Johnston: July 1861. Was serving with the Navy by November 1861 (as 1st Lieut. on the C.S.S. Nashville). A.A.A.I.G. to Johnston: 30th September 1862. John Haskell:- "Colonel Charles M. Fauntleroy, a naval officer, who for a long time served on General Johnston's staff...was a very clever man with an inveterate passion for practical joking. He made it a rule, even on the march, to shave and to cut his hair every morning, the latter being done by clipping every lock long enough to be caught between his fingers. He was a remarkably well read man, as a naval officer had seen much of the world, and was a most interesting talker. He was an excessively ugly man and rather vain. He bitterly resented his nickname of Figurehead Fauntleroy, which stuck to him and was unmercifully pushed because he never missed a chance to play practical jokes, and seemed to enjoy them most when they were most painful to the victim." Went to France with the C.S.N. in September 1863. Married three times. Died on 28th July 1889. Buried in Leesburg Presbyterian Church Cemetery. [Krick, Staff Officers In Gray, p.126; Haskell, The Haskell Memoirs, pp.15-16.]

FEAGIN, Isaac Ball Born in Jones Co., Ga., on 17 July 1833. Merchant in Midway, Ala. Deputy Sheriff of Barbour Co., Ala. Captain, Co.B, 15th Ala. Inf.: 26 July 1861. Wounded at Shepherdstown on 19 September 1862. Lt-Colonel: 28 April 1863. Lost leg and was captured at Gettysburg. Exchanged on 10 March 1864. Retired to Invalid Corps on 7 December 1864. Post-war Sheriff & Judge in Barbour Co. Died on 2 May 1900. William C. Oates wrote of Feagin that he “made a good officer. He was courageous and faithful, and commanded his company in every engagement of the regiment, up to a short time preceding the second battle of Manassas, when, being senior captain present, he commanded the regiment through the fighting at Manassas Junction, on the Plains, at Chantilly Farm, at Sharpsburg, and at Shepherdstown. At the latter place…he received a painful wound from a fragment of shell, which disabled him for several months. While at home on furlough he was married to a handsome young lady whose tender care contributed to his early restoration. When he returned to duty in the early part of the next year he found himself court-martialled by Gen. D.H. Hill. He was charged by the General with improper and unofficer-like conduct at the battle of Sharpsburg. General Hill rode up to him in the heat of battle, stayed but a minute, and did not understand the situation. He inquired for the regimental commander. He was told, and found him a short distance away behind some hay stacks, whither he had gone to hurry up a detail in getting cartridges out of the boxes of wounded men who had sought shelter there. Hill supposed that he was hiding there through fear, and did not seek any explanation. Feagin was a brave officer. The writer was the judge-advocate of the court-martial which tried him. As soon as the facts were laid before the court, Feagin was honorably acquitted, and there being no field officer present he again took command of the regiment, and thus remained until promoted lieutenant-colonel about the 1st of May, 1863.”

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Bill,
These are stupendous.
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Tommy,

Thanks to you & Neil for the positive comments.

Just for you, here is one of A.P. Hill's staff officers who does not yet have a sketch on the excellent "Then Hill Came Up" website.

FRASER, Henry DeSaussure [“Hal”] Born on 4th April 1828. Son of Frederick Grimke Fraser & Isabel Elliott Screven. Educated at Columbia College, Charleston Medical College and in Paris & Germany. Returned to Charleston late in 1852. There he practiced medicine until the war. In 1859 he married his cousin, Jane E. Ladson. Mary Chesnut knew him, and in her diary for 30th March 1861 she wrote: “Mr. Manning took me to Quinby’s – where I met Gov. Richardson & Col. Beaufort Watts & Hal Frasier. Had a good time.” Assistant-Surgeon, C.S.A.: 1861. Spent much of the war in charge of the Third Corps field hospital. Captured at Gettysburg on 5th July 1863: “to care for the many wounded who fell at Gettysburg, he remained with them a captive, when we had to withdraw our lines once more to the soil of old Virginia. He did it to share captivity in northern prisons, which he knew was no bed of roses.” Exchanged five months later. At Appomattox. Resumed his medical practice in Charleston after the war. Elected secretary of the S.C. Medical Association in 1873. Appointed Secretary of the State Board of Health in 1878. Died in Charleston on 8th February 1895. Buried in Magnolia Cemetery. His regulation S.C. Surgeon’s Chapeau de Bras - “the rarest piece of Confederate headgear known to exist” – was offered for sale at a price of $35,000 in 2002. [Woodward & Muhlenfeld, The Private Mary Chesnut, p.51.] A photo of the Chapeau de Bras can be seen at http://www.garyhendershott.com/hats.html A tribute to him which appeared in the July 1895 Confederate Veteran can be seen at http://members.cox.net/confed/1895/article15.html Details of his papers held at the University of South Carolina are listed at http://www.sc.edu/library/socar/uscs/2001/fraser.html A wartime envelope addressed by him to his wife can be seen at http://www.jlkstamps.com/covers/army/af113.htm

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Bill:

I appreciate the work you've put into the study and publication of real scholarship. I've enjoyed reading what you've posted and look forward to more.

Thanks, Ole.

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Ole,

Thanks. I'm glad you're enjoying reading these little sketches. I can't tell you how much pleasure I have had compiling them since I started in 1980.

CABELL, Henry Coalter Born on 14th February 1820. Son of Governor William Henry Cabell & Agnes Sarah Bell Gamble. Graduated from V.M.I. in 1842. Lawyer in Richmond. Married Jane Charity Alston. Captain, Richmond Fayette Artillery: 25th April 1861. Lt-Colonel: 12th September 1861. Colonel: 4th July 1862. Chief of Artillery of McLaws’ Division for most of the war. Took the oath at Richmond on 26th July 1865. Died there on 31st January 1889. Buried in Hollywood Cemetery. Robert Stiles wrote of him: “For eighteen months of the hottest part of the war I was the adjutant of Colonel Cabell, fighting by his side by day and sleeping by his side by night, eating and drinking often out of the same tin cup, lying upon the same oil cloth and covered with the same blanket – side by side, heart to heart, soul to soul. If ever I knew a man through and through, I knew him; and a cleaner, sweeter, more loyal soul I never knew. His essential characteristics were pure and unselfish nature, tender and affectionate heart, gentle and unfailing courtesy, single-hearted and devoted patriotism, quiet but indomitable courage. I never knew him to fail to be at the point of peril along the front of his battalion, nor there or anywhere to fail to measure up to the full standard of a battalion commander’s duty and responsibility. I never knew him to shrink from any hardship or any duty or any sacrifice for the cause to which we had devoted our lives. I never knew him to fail to treat a private soldier with a consideration which was grateful to him [sic], and yet never knew this courtesy to interfere with the maintenance of discipline. I never knew him to wound intentionally the feelings of a human being, or fail to repair the wrong if committed inadvertently. He was a man of intellect and culture, as well as character; as a friend ever faithful, as a companion always agreeable, as an officer enjoying the unqualified confidence and approval of his superiors, and the universal respect and affection of his subordinates. I am well aware that all this should have resulted in even more, but he who never did injustice to others never did full justice to himself. He lacked self-assertion and aggression; to some extent, too, he lacked the manner and bearing of a soldier, and he never maneuvered for position for himself or his battalion….he was much pleased to learn late in the war that certain of his friends, as they announced themselves, were planning to secure for him the exceptional rank of brigadier-general of artillery. He was interested and gratified until he accidentally discovered that it was involved in the plan that he should be retired to the defenses of Richmond…When this feature was developed, for once he flamed into ungovernable rage. It was the only time I heard him swear. ‘Stiles,’ said he, ‘what do these people take me for? Have I given men any reason to consider me a ****ed sneak and coward and fool?’ ” On 20th November 1863 General Pendleton wrote to R.E. Lee that “Colonel Cabell is another estimable officer whom it is best to transfer to another position. His worth as a gentleman, his patriotism as a citizen, and his gallantry as a soldier deserve honorable mention, but it is believed he could render better service in a command requiring less prompt activity than that he now holds.” [Stiles, Four Years Under Marse Robert, pp.154-5; Krick, Lee’s Colonels; Ferguson, Hollywood Cemetery, Her Forgotten Soldiers: Confederate Field Officers At Rest, p.26; Krick, Staff Officers In Gray, p.89.] His report on Chancellorsville can be read at http://www.civilwarhome.com/cabellch...orsvilleor.htm

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HASKELL, John Cheves Born on 21st October 1841. Son of Charles Thomson Haskell & Sophia Lovell Cheves. Lieut., Co.A, 1st S.C. Art.: 18th May 1861. Major & C.S. to G.W. Smith: 21st December 1861. Major & C.S. to D.R. Jones: March 1862. Lost an arm at Gaines Mill on 27th June 1862: “When I got within a few feet of the guns, I marked a gunner fixing his lanyard into the friction primer. I made a run to cut him down before he could fire, but he was too quick. When I was not over ten feet from the muzzle the gun went off. The shot struck my right arm, crushing it and tearing it off at the shoulder. When it hit me, it seemed to knock me up in the air and spin me around two or three times, though I suppose that was imaginary, and then dashed me down with a force that knocked all the breath out of me.” Major & C.S. to G.W. Smith again: November 1862. Major & V.A.D.C. to Longstreet in December 1862. Major of Artillery: 13th April 1863. At the Battle of the Crater he “came dashing up the plank road with two light batteries, and from a position near the cemetery began the most effective work of the day. Exposed to the batteries and sharpshooters of the enemy, he and his men gave little heed to danger. Haskell, in his impetuous and ubiquitous gallantry, dashed and flashed about: first here, next there, like Ariel on the sinking ship. Now he darted into the covered way to seek Elliott, and implore an infantry support for his exposed guns; Elliott, responding to his appeal, was severely wounded as he attempted with a brave handful of his Carolinians to cover Haskell’s position; now Haskell cheered Lampkin, who had already opened with his eight-inch mortars; now he hurried back to Flanner, where he had left him and found him under a fire so hot that in mercy he resolved to retire all his guns but six, and call for volunteers to man them, but that was not the temper of Lee’s army: every gun detachment volunteered to remain.” Lt-Colonel of Artillery: 18th February 1865. At Appomattox. Married Sally Preston Hampton and, after her death, her cousin Lucy Hampton. Planter in Mississippi and lawyer in Columbia, S.C. Died in latter place on 26th June 1906. [Haskell, The Haskell Memoirs; Krick, Staff Officers In Gray, p.153.] Photos of his grave can be seen at http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg...John%20Haskell

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PALMER, William Henry Born in Richmond, Va., on 9th October 1835. Son of William Palmer &amp; Elizabeth Walker Enders. At the age of 15 he began work as bookkeeper to his father. He later sailed with the ships of the Old Dominion Steamship Company. Then worked as a merchant in Richmond. Married Sarah Peck [or Sarah Elizabeth] Amiss on 26th November 1856. Lieut., Co.D, 1st Va. Inf.: 21st April 1861. Acting A.Q.M.: May to June 1861. Regt’l Adjt.: 12th September 1861. Major: 27th April 1862. Wounded in right arm at Williamsburg. Major &amp; V.A.D.C. to Kemper: August 1862. Major &amp; A.A.A.G. to A.P. Hill: October 1862. Wounded at Chancellorsville: he was speeding to join Hill after Jackson’s wounding when his horse was killed and he was thrown to the ground so violently that his right arm was dislocated, and he was out of action for several months. Major &amp; A.A.G. to Hill: 2nd May 1863. Lt-Colonel &amp; A.A.G. to Hill: 19th February 1864. Described as “polished, highly organized, and indefatigable, Palmer became Hill’s most trusted aide.” He also became the Chief of Staff. He had to tell Hill’s widow of the general’s death. A.A.G. to Henry Heth and/or Longstreet during the retreat to Appomattox. Lt-Col. &amp; A.A.G., 3rd Corps, at Appomattox. Married Elizabeth Amiss. Post-war commission merchant &amp; banker in Richmond. “At 85 he worked as though he were half that age, and at 90, whenever he could muster the strength, nothing could deter him from going to his office. Sometimes he had to struggle with confusion of tongue, and as old age struck hard at him he had to recover his footing, so to say, before he could shape his thought. But always he persisted and always in the end memory, judgment and strong reason answered to the call of his will. There was something magnificent about that dogged defiance of his!” Died on 14th July 1926. Buried in Hollywood Cemetery. [Robertson, General A.P.Hill: The Story of a Confederate Warrior, <font color="ff0000">•</font><font color="ff0000">•</font><font color="ff0000">•</font><font color="ff0000">•</font><font color="ff0000">•</font><font color="ff0000">•</font>, 189, 319; Ferguson, Hollywood Cemetery, Her Forgotten Soldiers: Confederate Field Officers At Rest, p.92; Krick, Staff Officers In Gray, p.236.] Another biographical sketch can be seen at http://www.aphillcsa.com/Palmer.html

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CROCKETT, Robert Hamilton Born in Paris, Tennessee, on 15th February 1832. Son of John Crockett &amp; Martha Hamilton. Grandson of Davy Crockett. Graduate of the Kentucky Military Institute. Married Sallie F. Lewis in Memphis in 1852. Married Mary B. Lewis in 1855. In 1856 the town of Hillsboro, Ark., was renamed Crockett’s Bluff in his honour. Captain, Co.H, 1st Arkansas Infantry: 1861. &#34;The First Arkansas Infantry was sent to the defense of Richmond early in the war, and placed with Bate&#39;s First Tennessee...at the mouth of Aquia Creek, near the memorable city of Fredericksburg. Captain, afterwards Colonel, Robert W. [sic] Crockett, a grandson of the heroic Davy Crockett, commanded one of its companies. That fact was made known along the route, and crowds assembled to greet Captain Crockett...Captain Bob had an exhaustless fund of humor and anecdote, and enjoyed a joke. Seeing that the admirers of his grandfather were dubious of him in his trim uniform and modish appearance, he got somewhere an old coon-skin and shaped it into a rude cap, with the tail hanging down behind, and on suitable occasions produced it as his grandfather&#39;s, to the immense delight of the spectators, saying, &#34;Those old fellows had larger heads than are fashionable at this time&#34; as the cap came down over his ears and eyes, and flowing black locks. At Fredericksburg he soon became a social as well as military lion. Dr Blackman, a hospitable old citizen, took a great fancy to this grandson of the Tennessee Congressman...He went around with him, always introducing him as such, and invariably adding that &#34;he knew his grandfather intimately&#34;. On one occasion Captain Bob introduced one of his men to Dr Blackman as &#34;Mr Crusoe, grandson of Robinson Crusoe&#34;. The good old doctor greeted young Crusoe with his accustomed warmth, remarking that &#34;although he did not know his grandfather personally, he had read about him and was proud to make the acquaintance of his patriotic descendant.&#34; Pvt., Co.E, 18th Ark. Inf.: 27th March 1862. Major: 2nd April 1862. Colonel: 5th October 1862. Appointed provost marshal at Washington, Ark., on 16th January 1865. Lawyer in Keaton, Ark., in 1880. State Senator: 1884-1888. Died in Stuttgart, Ark., in January 1891. [Confederate Veteran, 1894, p.89]

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OTEY, James C. Born in 1826. Resident of Lynchburg, Va. Sgt., Davidson Battery &#40;Co.C, 13th Bn., Va. Artillery&#41;: 14th April 1862. On sick leave in Lynchburg: 28th February 1863. 3rd Lieut.: 1st May 1863. On 21st July 1864 he formally waived all claim to promotion to command of that battery, thus enabling Ham Chamberlayne to acquire the captaincy. E.P. Alexander, writing about the Battle of The Crater, recalled that &#34;Gibbes&#39; two guns were a part of our main front line and in quite a prominent location - Gen. Humphreys speaks of them as in a ravine, but the position was really on a knoll and their only protection was their own parapets and traverses. For perhaps an hour after the explosion, under the heavy fire of the enemy&#39;s guns, this battery was silent, the officer in charge of it becoming demoralized. After the battle charges were preferred against the lieutenant &#40;Otey&#41; who had acted badly. He was convicted of cowardice and sentenced to death, and had all arrangements made to shoot him when he was pardoned by President Davis, of which I have since been very glad. For the strain of that position, that morning, was very severe upon men of little experience in action&#34; William N. Pendleton wrote that Gibbes’s “left gun…was culpably left for a time unserved, through the misbehavior of Lieut. James C. Otey, who, owing to a combination of circumstances, was the only officer at the time present with the company.” Jennings C. Wise wrote: “This unfortunate young officer, the first and last in the whole career of Lee’s Artillery Corps to abandon his guns in cowardice, seems to have been entirely unmanned by the awfulness of the cataclysm, in which he and his men had all but been engulfed. Let us not be too harsh in our judgment of him. Let us imagine ourselves in his position and ask if the mere thought of such an experience as that through which he had passed does not shake our resolution. If poor Otey were at fault, then he has long since atoned for his misdoing. To the writer he is more to be pitied, and demands more of charity than any other soldier in that grand artillery corps of Lee’s Army. Would that his name might not be mentioned, but there it is in black and white in the record for all time. The hand of mortal cannot obliterate it, the stain is indelible. The incident is not recounted here to hold Otey up to scorn, but to show that misconduct before the enemy was so rare, so unheard of in Lee’s Artillery, that even on the part of a miserable, insignificant youth, it attracted the attention of an army.” Was dismissed from the service on 10th September 1864. Someone of the same name subsequently served as a private in the Alleghany Light Artillery. He was captured at Five Forks on 1st April 1865. P.O.W. in Point Lookout. Took the oath there on 15th June. Entered the Confederate Soldiers’ Home in Richmond on 9th February 1890. Died there on 22nd June 1890. &#40;Wise’s reference to Otey as a “youth” casts some doubt upon the year of birth being 1826.&#41; [Gallagher, Fighting For The Confederacy, pp.466 &amp; 604; Wise, The Long Arm Of Lee, p.866; Official Records, I, 40, 1, p.760; The Virginia Regimental Histories Series &#40;c&#41; Historical Data Systems, Inc. @ www.civilwardata.com]

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BAKER, John Algernon Born in New Hanover Co., N.C., in c.1833. Educated at Yale &amp; Columbia &#40;S.C.&#41; College. In 1860 he was a lawyer in Wilmington, married to Minerva and with one child. Lieut., Wilmington Light Artillery: 16th May 1861. Resigned, to serve as A.D.C. on the staff of S.G. French. Colonel, 3rd N.C. Cav.: 3rd September 1862. Captured near Petersburg on 21st June 1864. One of “The Immortal 600”. McHenry Howard was a fellow-prisoner in Fort Delaware and recorded that Baker “made visits, I think several, to General Schoepf’s headquarters which we distrusted….believing that Colonel Baker would be speedily exchanged, and apprehending that he might play the part of a Benedict Arnold, for we understood that he commanded an important part of the cavalry line when captured, General Vance and some of us consulted how we could get a warning to Richmond…I have been told that he went to the West Indies and never returned home…” Took the oath on 6th March 1865. The following passage from Whitelaw Reid’s account of his travels through the South in 1865-66 appears to relate to this individual: “Another gentleman in the company, introduced as ‘Mr.’ Baker – a tall, slender man, of graceful manners, and evident culture and experience – had been through nearly the whole war as Colonel of a North Carolina Rebel regiment. Strangely enough, Colonel Baker claimed to have been a Union man all the time, from which some idea may be had of the different phases Unionism in the South has assumed. His father had been a Unionist of unquestioned firmness; but the son, returning from Europe in the midst of the secession enthusiasm, found the social pressure of his circle too much to withstand. ‘I was forced,’ he naively said, ‘to raise a regiment in order to retain my influence in the community!’ And, with equal naivete, he added, that if he had not thus retained his influence, he could now have been of no use in aiding to compose these difficulties! He pointed out a fine rice plantation on the bank of the river, which he had owned, but about his title to which, now, he seemed to have some doubts.” Married six times in all. Died in St Mary’s Infirmary, Galveston, on 15 March 1903. Buried in the Calvary Catholic Cemetery in an unmarked grave. “He was the finest-looking man I ever saw: a perfect Antinous, very tall and muscular, and looked as if he were about to step into the Olympic Arena…” [Joslyn, Biographical Roster of the Immortal 600, p.33; Krick, Staff Officers In Gray, p.65; Howard, Recollections of a Maryland Confederate Officer, pp.324-326; Reid, After The War: A Tour of the Southern States 1865-1866, pp.42-43.]

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GOODMAN, Robert Hope Born near Athens, Ga., on 21 February 1819. Son of John Goodman. Merchant in Athens. Democrat &amp; Mason. Married Caroline Mason in 1849. 2nd Lieut., Co.D, Cobb&#39;s Legion Inf. Bn. His health broke down at some point during the war, and he returned to Ga., joining the state troops. “In July 1865, when Atlanta was a pile of smoking ruins and scarcely a building stood to mark the city’s site, Captain Goodman set forth from Athens in a wagon to drive to Atlanta through the open country. On his way he stopped at Decatur, bought a little store house, took it to pieces largely with his own hands, mounted it on the wagon and came on until he reached the corner of what is now Peachtree street and Auburn avenue. There he put the timbers of his little store together again and started a general merchandise business. It marked the beginning of the present-day Atlanta. He continued in that vicinity until 1878. Then his wife’s health grew feebler – she suffered from asthma – and he sold out and went to Oregon, remaining in that state five years. On his return in 1883 he bought a farm in DeKalb county on what is now called the Fair street road. He lived there until his wife’s death in 1894, when he made his home with his son, <font color="ff0000">•</font><font color="ff0000">•</font><font color="ff0000">•</font>. Goodman, on Peeples Street. For several years past Captain Goodman’s declining years have kept him from active business. He was hale and vigorous, however, and like a young man in his outlook upon life until about six weeks ago when he suffered a stroke of paralysis. That was the immediate cause of his death.” [Atlanta Journal, 28th August 1909]

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JACKSON, Alfred Henry Born in McConnelsville, Ohio, on 1st January 1836. Graduated from Washington College in 1857. Married Mary Blair Paxton in 1858. Lawyer &amp; deputy U.S. Marshal in Lewis Co., Va. Captain, Co.I, 31st Va. Inf.: 21st July 1861. Resigned on 10th December 1861. Major &amp; A.A.G. to Stonewall Jackson: November 1861 to May 1862. The following entry from the diary of Jed Hotchkiss, dated 10th May 1862, may relate to this individual: “the General called me aside…and directed me to ride back, with all possible dispatch, and blockade the roads leading through North River and Dry River gaps…taking as many of the cavalry encamped near there, under Maj. Jackson, as I wanted. I told him I wished to have nothing to do with that officer, as he was a drunkard.” He was a cousin of Stonewall, but left the staff “at the suggestion of General Jackson, because of his fondness for late sleeping, a habit which was anathema to General Jackson” Lt-Colonel, 31st Va. Inf.: 1st May 1862. Wounded at Cedar Mountain. Died from the effects of this wound in Lexington on 1st August 1863. Buried there in the Stonewall Jackson Cemetery. [Krick, Staff Officers In Gray, pp.169-170; McDonald, Make Me A Map Of The Valley, p.43; Bean, Stonewall’s Man: Sandie Pendleton, p.50, n.21.]

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BROWN, Daniel Edward Born in 1842. Son of Samuel Brown &amp; Helena Vandiver. Enlisted in the 2nd S.C. Rifles in 1861. On 16th April of that year his mother wrote to his older brother: “Sunday morning I sent out for help and had Edward two flannel shirts made and cooked for him three days’ provisions. Those were his orders and at twelve o’clock he and your father left. Oh, Newton, what a trial to part with him! He is so young and never was from home a week at a time in his life. He is just like you, always at home attending to his business. A better boy never lived. What a comfort he is to me. He is so steady that I am not afraid of his being drawn off.…When his Father told him he was ready to start, he commenced telling them good-bye. He burst into tears. I told him to be a good soldier, he was in a glorious cause, he was going to fight for his country and to cheer up…but Newton, we miss him everywhere.” His father died in 1862, and afterwards “Edward received a furlough to visit his mother. When leaving, he assured her that as soon as the war was ended, if living, he would return home to stay with her – that he would not marry while she lived so that he could devote his life entirely to caring for her.” Adjt., 14th S.C. Inf.: February 1864. Mortally wounded at Spotsylvania on 12th May 1864 &#34;by three balls in charging the works&#34;. Died in a Washington D.C. hospital on 24th May. Buried in Section 16 of Arlington National Cemetery. Another source states that he is in Hollywood Cemetery: possibly he was reinterred. [Brown, A Colonel At Gettysburg &amp; Spotsylvania, pp.36-38, 74 &amp; 102.]

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PATTERSON, George Born in 1828. Son of Petro Papathakes &amp; Louisa Miles. &#34;The quality noted about him was his deep learning, which he seems to have acquired more in remote and primitive Wisconsin than scholarly Cambridge, for he trained for the ministry at Nashotah House in the northwestern state then, for reasons that are not apparent but possibly because of his deep regard for the welfare of the slaves, he applied to the Episcopal Bishop of North Carolina in 1850 for an assignment. He became a candidate for orders in the North State, was ordained deacon in 1852 and priest in 1856, and took over the pastorate of Somerset Place on Lake Scuppernong, near the eastern shore.&#34; Chaplain, 3rd N.C. Inf.: 30th December 1862. Randolph McKim described him: “I found the men all much attached to him – malgre his eccentricities and his very rigid churchmanship. He was a true and a brave man and did his duty faithfully as he understood it. Before the war he had been a chaplain on a plantation of North Carolina, where there were 500 negroes, of whom 180 were communicants of the Episcopal Church. The master paid him a salary of $3,000 a year for his services…Such was Patterson’s influence over them that the previous winter he had ‘brought away 175 of them out of the Federal lines, under shell fire and without any guard, and entirely of their own accord.’ He told them Lincoln had made them all free, but had no right to do it, and they would be sinful to leave their masters, but could do as they chose. And I was told that not one of the 500 ran away.” The Boston Herald of 14th June 1863 reported the death of Col. William O. Stevens as a prisoner of war, and stated that Patterson, “finding him in a room with fourteen other wounded men, was attracted to his side, procured for him a bed and a private room, for thirty-six hours, watched over him as if it were his own father; washed his body and bathed his temples, gave him medicine and nourishments, spoke with him of his wife, his boys, his parents and his friends, and commended him in prayer….the Chaplain said [to] our informant, ‘I was born in Boston; my father was a Greek; my mother, if alive, resides in Rayham, Massachusetts. Go and see her; tell her of her son, for she does not know that I am alive.’ The father of this Rev. George Patterson kept a fruit store in this city, at No. 14 School street.” Also served as chaplain at Chimborazo Hospital. Campbell Brown described him as “so eccentric as to be fairly thought half-crazy.” Lived in Wilmington &amp; Memphis, Tenn., after the war. Died &#34;recently&#34; before 1901. McHenry Howard understood that Patterson &#34;had made a vow of poverty, even giving up his watch, and had gone to Texas and died there. With some eccentricities - perhaps it would be better to say with great simplicity of character - he was a good man and a most attentive and faithful chaplain, and I think the officers and men were much attached to him.&#34; [Howard, Recollections Of A Confederate Maryland Soldier, p.226; McKim, A Soldier’s Recollections, pp.139-140; Jones, Campbell Brown’s Civil War, p.53.]

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THOMPSON, Charles Gratiot Born in Baltimore, Md., on 28th June 1833. Baptised at Christ Church, Baltimore, on 4th August 1833. Son of Henry A. Thompson &amp; Julie Zelina de Macklot. Sgt., 1st Maryland Artillery: 6th July 1861. In late March 1863 he was assigned as acting Lieut. &amp; O.O. to McGowan’s Brigade. On 27th October 1863 Alex. Haskell received two jugs of Sorghum whiskey and shared them with some friends. He recalled “our Ordnance Officer, Lieut. Thompson of Baltimore, walking up to the great log fire, grave as a judge and as drunk. ‘How sweet to rest there,’ said he, and quietly proceeded to lay himself across the fire.” Lieut. &amp; O.O. to McGowan by May 1864. On the morning of 6th April 1865 McHenry Howard met up with Thompson, an old friend:- “He asked me how I was getting along, and on my replying, badly enough, and giving some details, he said, after a little hesitation, ‘Well old fellow, I have fared better, having spent last night with my wagons. And I have some apple brandy in my canteen which I will divide with you.’ I had no canteen, for I never liked wearing anything around my shoulder. I tried to borrow one, but being unsuccessful, said to him, “Grash, I will ride along with you and take my half as we go.’” At Appomattox. Krick states that he initially went to Canada, and then moved to Massachusetts. He married Sophia Underwood in Boston on 27th December 1866, and had one daughter. In the 1880 census he was living in Ward Two, Newton, Ma., and his occupation was given as “retired”. Died in Winchester, Ma., on 16th May 1889. [Howard, Recollections of a Maryland Confederate Soldier, p.378; Krick, Staff Officers In Gray, p.286; Daly, Alexander Cheves Haskell: The Portrait Of A Man, p.114.]

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OFFUTT, Nathaniel G. Born in Louisiana in c.1831. Only son of a wealthy planter. Graduated from Georgetown University in 1860. Planter in St Landry Parish. Captain, Co.C, 6th La. Inf.: 4 June 1861. Major: 25 May 1862. Lt-Colonel: 27 June 1862: “a move which was not applauded by many in the regiment. There was talk in the ranks that the major had been less than brave in recent battles, hanging back out of danger when the brigade attacked at Port Republic and again at Gaines Mill….[at Malvern Hill] the common talk in the ranks had it that the lieutenant colonel had lurked behind a large tree, feigning a wound, and had been carried off by the ambulance corps. This was the third report of Offutt’s cowardice in the face of the enemy, and resentment began to boil among the men and some of the company captains. When Offutt returned to the regiment the day after the battle with no evidence of having suffered any wound, the disgusted officers began to consider what steps they might take..... ” On 17 July two officers of the 6th wrote a letter, which was additionally signed by five privates and a sergeant, detailing Offutt’s behaviour. At Port Republic he “remained behind with the ambulances and was rebuked by a private soldier for so doing.” At Gaines Mill, “when his regiment was ordered to charge the lines of the enemy, [he] remained at the foot of the hill sheltered by a tree, completely out of danger, and was there during the whole time his regiment was under fire, a space of one hour and a half, displaying a palpable instance of cowardice.” By August he was in hospital in Lynchburg, “complaining of health problems.” He resigned on 5 or 7 November 1862. [Gannon, Irish Rebels, Confederate Tigers, pp.84, 90, 142-4, 328.]

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McDONALD, Craig Woodrow Born on 28th May 1837. Son of Angus W. McDonald &amp; Leacy Anne Naylor. Attended V.M.I. &amp; U.Va. Schoolteacher in Winchester, Va. Pvt., Co.E, 13th Va. Inf.: 17th April 1861. Lieut. &amp; A.D.C. to Elzey in June 1861. Served very briefly on Stonewall’s staff after 1st Manassas. Lieut. &amp; acting A.D.C. to Elzey: April-June 1862. Lieut. &amp; A.A.I.G. to Elzey in June 1862. Edward H. McDonald described the action at Cross keys on 8th June 1862:- &#34;This bridge was fired by my brother Wood, and won him a promotion to captain. I met him during the fight and saw blood on his clothes from a ball which had gone through his ear. I asked if he was much wounded. &#39;Not even a furlough,&#39; he said. We parted, never to meet again, for he was killed a few days later at Gaines Mill. He had the greatest military talent and dash in the family. The brightest and youngest of the brothers was the first to die.&#34; He returned home to visit his family after Port Republic, and his step-mother wrote that “he showed me a cut on his left ear made by a passing bullet. His horse had been killed under him there, the pretty blooded Kate that had been the family pet. Wood looked so hopeful and bright, much more so than when he had left the autumn before to join Elzey as aide-de-camp.” Buried in Hollywood Cemetery. Campbell Brown left a graphic description of McDonald’s behaviour just before his death at Gaines Mill on 27th June 1862: “As we passed thro’ the edge of an orchard, poor Wood McDonald of Elzey’s Staff rode up to Trimble, his face flushed, his sword drawn, in the wildest excitement, begging him to come and support Elzey. Trimble was perfectly cool and quiet – and told him he would do so, but must take advantage of the ground etc – and continued his march. Wood, poor fellow, in too great exaltation to stand Trimble’s slow speech &amp; motion rode away with a reproach for his inertness. As he went back to his command, he was killed just on the edge of the road. It seems even now uncharitable to write it, but it is true – he was drunk! – the first time I ever saw him so!” A more romantic description of his death is the following: &#34;He had a presentiment that he would be killed in this battle, yet the feeling did not dampen the ardor of his zeal. He saw a portion of the lines wavering, and with quick perception realized that disaster was imminent. Without waiting for orders he hurriedly rode back for the reinforcements he knew to be coming. General Walker gave the command to &#39;double quick&#39;. The column swept forward to the rescue, McDonald at the head, waving his cap high in the air, and, with clarion voice, shouting: &#39;Rescue!&#39; A grapeshot struck him in the breast, and he fell dead.&#34; [Krick, Staff Officers In Gray, p.208; Jones, Campbell Brown’s Civil War, p.117; McDonald, A Woman’s Civil War, p.54.]

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ADAMS, Stephen Born in Fulton, Schoharie Co., N.Y., on 28 February 1829. Son of John L. Adams. Graduated from Yale in 1850. Studied law at Lynchburg, was admitted to the bar in 1854 or 1855 [sources differ] and practiced in Raleigh Co, Va. Was also a schoolteacher. Married Emma C. Saunders on 26 April 1854, and had 6 children. Opposed secession publicly and privately. On 6 September 1861 a group of Federal prisoners at White Sulphur Springs wrote to Jefferson Davis:- &#34;We are at present at White Sulphur Springs in custody and charge of Captain Adams, commanding a company of artillery named Gauley Artillery, who has by his gentlemanly deportment and many kindnesses alleviated the evils incident to being a prisoner.&#34; Prior to being placed in command at W.S.S. he had raised a Co. which had been incorporated into the 22nd Va. Inf. They rejoined the regiment at Big Sewell Mountain in August 1861. They were soon assigned to 30 Bn. Va Sharpshooters, with whom Adams served for the rest of the war. Wounded and captured at Winchester on 19 September 1864. Exchanged and paroled just before the surrender. Became lawyer in Lynchburg, as the laws of West Virginia excluded former Confederates from practicing at its bar; also state legislator and county court judge. Alive in 1899. He wrote: “With a little cork skillfully inserted in my boot you would scarcely observe in me any effect of the late little unpleasantness.” [Hotchkiss, Confederate Military History of Virginia, p.695.]

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CASH, Ellerbe Boggan Crawford

Born near Wadesboro, Anson Co., N.C., on 1 July 1823. Son of Boggan Cash & Elizabeth Ellerbe. Educated at Mount Zion Institute & S.C. College. Read law under Gnl. Blakeney at Cheraw, S.C. Practiced for a brief period before retiring to manage his widowed mother’s large plantation. In 1847 he married his cousin, Miss Alan Ellerbe. State legislator. Colonel, 8th S.C. Inf.: 1861. At 1st Manassas he did his best to shoot the captured U.S. Congressman Ely: “at that time the colonel was a tall, stalwart fellow, apparently 35 or 40, red headed, red faced, light grey eyed, strong-featured &, as I approached him that afternoon, his face was as angry looking as a storm cloud, & he had drawn his revolver & was trying to shoot the little citizen who was dodging behind the big sergeant major as Cash turned his horse about & tried to get at him, poking at him with the pistol & swearing with a fluency which would have been creditable to a wagon master. ‘You infernal s. of a b.! You came to see the fun did you? God **** your dirty soul I’ll show you,’ & he spurred his horse to get around the sergeant major. ‘What’s the matter, Colonel,’ said I. ‘What are you trying to shoot that man for?’ ‘He’s a member of Congress, God **** him,’ said the colonel. ‘Came out here to see the fun! Came to see us whipped & killed! God **** him! If it was not for such as he there would be no war. They’ve made it & then come to gloat over it! God **** him. I’ll show him,’ and again he tried to get at the poor little fellow who was evidently scared almost into a fit.” Refused to stand at the 1862 reorganization. Post-war farmer and active Democrat. In 1881 he killed Col. William M. Shannon in a notorious duel. Died on 10 March 1888. Buried in the family plot at his home in Cash’s Depot, S.C. “He was charitable to the extreme, and was the soul of honour, and while he had many enemies, being a fearless man and a good hater, he had such qualities as inspired the respect and admiration of his fellow men.” [Dickert, History of Kershaw’s Brigade, p.103; Krick, Lee’s Colonels; Alexander, Fighting For The Confederacy, p.55.]

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PARK, Robert Emory

Born at La Grange, Ga., on 13th January 1844. Son of Major John Park & Sarah T. Robertson. Educated at Emory College, Oxford, Ga., & East Alabama College, Auburn, Ala. Student when war began. Pvt., Co.F, 12th Ala Inf.: 12th June 1861. On 3rd February 1862 Martha Cassandra Smith wrote to her sister: “You wished to know who my sweetheart is: Robert E. Park of Greenville, Georgia. He is in Virginia, near Manassas. I received a letter from him the other day[;] he wants to marry me when his time expires next June. I haven’t told him I would, I have no objection to him, he is younger than I am. He was going to school in Auburn and would have graduated in June if he had continued going. He is a brother of John Park who used to teach school here [;] you remember he boarded at Dr. Thomas’ ” Elected 2nd Lieut. at 1862 reorganization. 1st Lieut.: June 1862. Wounded at Gettysburg on 1st July 1863. The destruction of property during the 1864 Valley campaign provoked him to write: “Such warfare is a disgrace to civilization, but I suppose that Irish-Yankee Sheridan and that drunken butcher and tanner, Grant, have little comprehension of sentiments of humanity or Christianity.” Seriously wounded in leg, and captured, at Winchester on 19th September 1864. P.O.W. in Old Capitol, Point Lookout & Fort Delaware. Released on 14th June 1865. Had been promoted Captain while in captivity. On his return home he studied law and taught school. From 1872 onwards he worked in the publishing business. Married Ella H. Holt (d.1890) on 9th February 1875, and had two children. Married Mrs Emily Hendree Stewart on 27th April 1893. Elected Treasurer of the State in 1900. Died in Atlanta on 7th May 1909. Extracts from his wartime diary, covering his imprisonment in Fort Delaware in 1865, are in S.H.S.P. vols. 3-4. [Power, Lee’s Miserables, p.143.]

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McKIM, William Duncan

Born in Baltimore, Md., on 27th June 1832. Cousin of Randolph H. McKim. Attended Harvard. Pre-war banker. Captain & A.A.G. to Isaac Trimble in November 1861. In April 1862 cousin Randolph wrote home: “He is, you know, on General Trimble’s staff, his aide-de-camp. You never saw such a change in a man in your life. When he returned from Richmond with his sunburnt hair cut off, his beard shaven, except mustache and imperial, ‘staff’ boots replacing his old ‘regulations’, and his dirty uniform exchanged for a nice new suit, it was hard to recognize him.” Major: 2nd February 1863. Killed at Chancellorsville. "I was told afterwards that he was the only officer in the division who remained mounted in the midst of that frightful hail of bullets, there in the thick woods. An officer of the Stonewall brigade went to him and besought him to dismount - indeed remonstrated with him seriously upon the foolhardiness and uselessness of his keeping the saddle under the circ umstances; and when he could not prevail upon him to take his advice, returned to his company saying, ‘Well, it is only a question of minutes when he will fall.’ And so it was - very soon he was seen to reel in the saddle and fall to the ground. His death must have been almost instantaneous. But in fact it was not, I believe, foolhardiness that made him thus sacrifice his life. It appears that the day before he had received a severe contusion on the leg from a grapeshot, and the brigade surgeon told him he was unfit to go into the battle on the 3rd. But Duncan could not be restrained. He got into the saddle somehow, and marched with his command. Then, when Capt. Wm. Randolph begged him to dismount, he refused because he knew he could not walk. He had been ever a gallant soldier, cool and fearless on the field of battle. At Sharpsburg he had been shot through both thighs and was taken to the residence of Rev. R.H. Phillips, in Staunton, where he was tenderly nursed for months by Mrs Phillips and her daughter Agnes. It was, I think, about the 1st of February, 1863, that Duncan returned to the field, though even then his wound had not entirely healed." Buried in Greenmount Cemetery, Baltimore. [McKim, A Soldier’s Recollections, pp.80, 131-132.]