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General Lunsford L. Lomax - The Photographic History of The Civil War in Ten Volumes: Volume 4 EDIT: Change spelling of first name. See below.
 
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Well, tell your scribe to check out Wikipedia, and forthwith take nothing on trust.:Dhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunsford_L._Lomax
 
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Armistead L. Long - LOC
Mike has given me permission to add biographical information to his wonderful thread!
Armistead Lindsay Long
Died, April 20, 1891, at Charlottesville, Virginia, aged 64.
General Armistead Lindsay Long was born in Campbell County, near Lynchburg, in 1827. In 1846 he was appointed a cadet at West Point and four years later he graduated as First Lieutenant

He was Aide-de‑Camp to General E. V. Sumner, whose daughter, Mary Heron Sumner, he married in St. Louis in 1860. A soldier by choice and profession, his position was assured to him for life, and with the influence of General Sumner he had everything to hope for that a soldier's ambition could desire, but he was a Virginian, and at the demand of the convention of his native State he resigned his position in the United States Army and came to her defense.

General Long was appointed Major of Artillery in the Southern Army, July 20, 1861, and assigned to the Army of Northern Virginia as Chief of Artillery, commanded by General Loring. At the close of that campaign he was directed to report to
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General Lee in the Southern Department as his Chief of Artillery. In March, 1862, General Lee, being created Commander-in‑Chief and military adviser to the President of the Confederacy, he was assigned to his staff as Military Secretary about the last of March with the rank of Colonel of Cavalry, and joined him about May, in Richmond.

He served on General Lee's staff in that capacity until the middle of September, 1863, when he was appointed Brigadier-General of Artillery and assigned to the Second Corps of Artillery, Army of Northern Virginia (
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Stonewall Jackson's Corps). He remained on General Lee's staff until the fall of 1863; was with him on the southern sea-coast, and in every battle in which General Lee commanded. In the winter of 1863 and 1864 he suffered from a failure of health, facial paralysis following, but resisting his growing disabilities, he continued in action and served until the surrender of the Confederate Army at Appomattox.

He was a man of fine personal appearance, and in all the normal and mental qualifications which make up the model soldier, he was worthy of the confidence and regard of the distinguished p81 chieftain whose fortunes he had followed. After the war closed he was appointed chief engineer of the James-River and Kanawha-Canal Company. Soon after he lost his eye-sight by reason of exposure during his campaigns, when he removed to Charlottesville, and for twenty years was been in total darkness, incapacitated for active work and delicate in health.

During this period his active mind was much employed in recalling the incidents of the war and he had written a memoir of General Lee, He had also written reminiscences of his army life and a sketch of Stonewall Jackson, in which he traces the resemblance between this impetuous soldier and "Old Hickory." By reason of his blindness he was compelled to use a slate prepared for the use of the blind and to depend on members of his family and on friends to have his work copied. Under all these disadvantages he has worked along, uncomplainingly, dwelling with interest and delight on what was most pleasant in his past life, cheerful and always with placid courage looking forward to the end of his sad but honored career.
(Abridged by me from his obituary in the Twenty-Second Annual Reunion of the Association of the Graduates of the United States Military Academy, June 12th, 1891.)
http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer...y/USMA/AOG_Reunions/22/Armistead_L_Long*.html
 
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General Lunsford L. Lomax - The Photographic History of The Civil War in Ten Volumes: Volume 4 EDIT: Change spelling of first name. See below.
Lunsford L. Lomax

Lunsford Lindsay Lomax (November 4, 1835 – May 28, 1913) was an officer in the United States Army who resigned his commission to join the Confederate Army at the outbreak of the American Civil War. He had maintained a close friendship with his West Point classmate Fitzhugh Lee, and served under him as a brigadier in the Overland Campaign. He was then given command of the Valley District, where he supervised intelligence-gathering operations by Mosby's Rangers.

Early and family life
Born in Newport, Rhode Island on November 4, 1835 to the former Elizabeth Virginia Lindsay (1800-after 1860) and her husband, Major Mann Page Lomax (1787-1842), Lunsford Lomax was descended from the First Families of Virginia. His father was a career U.S. Army officer, specializing in artillery, who had served in New Orleans during the War of 1812, and married in 1820 during his leave in Norfolk, Virginia. He was named for his great grandfather, Lunsford Lomax (1705-1772) of "Portabago" plantation in Caroline County, who also served part-time in the Virginia House of Burgesses from 1742 until 1756 representing that county before the American Revolutionary War. His grandfather Thomas Lomax (1750-1835) served on the Caroline County Committee of Safety during the Revolutionary War and later in the Virginia House of Delegates. His father died of tuberculosis in Cambridge, Massachusetts when this Lunsford Lomax was seven. He had five sisters, Ann (b. 1832), Virginia (b. 1832), Victoria (b. 1833), Julia (b. 1835) and Mary (b. 1835). His mother raised him and his sisters in Norfolk, but by 1860 the Lomax womenfolk (his sisters remaining unmarried) had moved to Washington, D.C.[1] After a private education, Lunsford Lomax received an "at-large" appointment to the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York. He graduated in 1856 with fellow Virginia classmate and friend Fitzhugh Lee.


For the rest of his history:
https://www.revolvy.com/main/index.php?s=Lunsford+L.+Lomax&item_type=topic
 
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Colonel Evander McIvor Law, 4th Alabama Infantry - ADA
A wonderful photo of Law I've never seen before! Of course he commanded the Alabama Brigade in Hood's Division which included the famous 15th Ala. of Col. Oates that was Chamberlain's opposite number at Little Round Top at Gettysburg. When Hood was wounded there, Law as senior brigade commander assumed command of the division for the remainder of the battle and campaign. Law had a falling out with First Corps commander Longstreet when the latter recommended one of his favorites, Micah Jenkins, to lead the division in 1864. Perhaps Law received satisfaction when his rival was killed in the Wilderness by the same volley of friendly fire that also felled Longstreet!
 
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General Robert E. Lee - LOC
While vacationing last week at Appomattox I got to see the famous so-called (by Lee himself) Maryland Sword that Lee is wearing in this photo. It had been a present from an admirer in Maryland and traveled through the blockade from England where it had been made. This was the sidearm Lee wore at Appomattox when he met Grant to discuss surrender terms and in his memoirs Grant said that, contrary to legend, Lee made no gesture to surrender it; therefore Grant had no reason to make a show of refusing to accept it.

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Mike has given me permission to add biographical information to his wonderful thread!
Armistead Lindsay Long
Died, April 20, 1891, at Charlottesville, Virginia, aged 64.
General Armistead Lindsay Long was born in Campbell County, near Lynchburg, in 1827. In 1846 he was appointed a cadet at West Point and four years later he graduated as First Lieutenant

He was Aide-de‑Camp to General E. V. Sumner, whose daughter, Mary Heron Sumner, he married in St. Louis in 1860. A soldier by choice and profession, his position was assured to him for life, and with the influence of General Sumner he had everything to hope for that a soldier's ambition could desire, but he was a Virginian, and at the demand of the convention of his native State he resigned his position in the United States Army and came to her defense.

General Long was appointed Major of Artillery in the Southern Army, July 20, 1861, and assigned to the Army of Northern Virginia as Chief of Artillery, commanded by General Loring. At the close of that campaign he was directed to report to
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General Lee in the Southern Department as his Chief of Artillery. In March, 1862, General Lee, being created Commander-in‑Chief and military adviser to the President of the Confederacy, he was assigned to his staff as Military Secretary about the last of March with the rank of Colonel of Cavalry, and joined him about May, in Richmond.

He served on General Lee's staff in that capacity until the middle of September, 1863, when he was appointed Brigadier-General of Artillery and assigned to the Second Corps of Artillery, Army of Northern Virginia (
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Stonewall Jackson's Corps). He remained on General Lee's staff until the fall of 1863; was with him on the southern sea-coast, and in every battle in which General Lee commanded. In the winter of 1863 and 1864 he suffered from a failure of health, facial paralysis following, but resisting his growing disabilities, he continued in action and served until the surrender of the Confederate Army at Appomattox.

He was a man of fine personal appearance, and in all the normal and mental qualifications which make up the model soldier, he was worthy of the confidence and regard of the distinguished p81 chieftain whose fortunes he had followed. After the war closed he was appointed chief engineer of the James-River and Kanawha-Canal Company. Soon after he lost his eye-sight by reason of exposure during his campaigns, when he removed to Charlottesville, and for twenty years was been in total darkness, incapacitated for active work and delicate in health.

During this period his active mind was much employed in recalling the incidents of the war and he had written a memoir of General Lee, He had also written reminiscences of his army life and a sketch of Stonewall Jackson, in which he traces the resemblance between this impetuous soldier and "Old Hickory." By reason of his blindness he was compelled to use a slate prepared for the use of the blind and to depend on members of his family and on friends to have his work copied. Under all these disadvantages he has worked along, uncomplainingly, dwelling with interest and delight on what was most pleasant in his past life, cheerful and always with placid courage looking forward to the end of his sad but honored career.
(Abridged by me from his obituary in the Twenty-Second Annual Reunion of the Association of the Graduates of the United States Military Academy, June 12th, 1891.)
http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer...y/USMA/AOG_Reunions/22/Armistead_L_Long*.html
Well, you didn't need my permission but since you asked...:smile: Thanks for contributing!
 
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