{⋆★⋆} BG Bee, Barnard Elliott

Barnard Elliott Bee Jr.

Barnard Bee was a career U.S. Army officer and a Confederate Army general who was mortally wounded at the First Battle of Bull Run, one of the first general officers to be killed in the Civil War.

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Born:
February 8, 1824

Birthplace: Charleston, South Carolina

Father: Barnard Elliott Bee Sr. 1787 – 1853
(Buried: St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Pendleton, South Carolina)​
Mother: Ann Wragg Fayssoux 1789 – 1858
(Buried: St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Pendleton, South Carolina)​
1st​ Wife: Electa Lee Hubbard 1829 – 1854
(Buried: North Laurel Grove Cemetery, Savannah, Georgia)​

2nd​ Wife: Sophia Elizabeth Hill 1836 – 1920
(Buried: Magnolia Cemetery, Charleston, South Carolina)​

Children:

Barnard Elliott Bee III 1859 – 1862​
(Buried: Saint Paul’s Episcopal Church, Pendleton, S.C.)​
Sophie Bee 1861 – 1862​
(Buried: Saint Paul’s Episcopal Church, Pendleton, S.C.)​

Education:

Attended the Pendleton Academy​
1845: Graduated from West Point Military Academy (33rd​ in class)​

Occupation before War:

1845 – 1846: Brevet 2nd​ Lt. United States Army 3rd​ Infantry Regiment​
1846 – 1851: 2nd​ Lt. United States Army 3rd​ Infantry Regiment​
1851 – 1855: 1st​ Lt. United States Army 3rd​ Infantry Regiment​
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1855 – 1861: Captain United States Army 10th​ Infantry Regiment​
1861: Resigned from United States Army on March 3rd​

Civil War Career:

1861: Lt. Colonel of 1st​ South Carolina Regulars​
1861: Brigadier General of Confederate Army Infantry​
1861: Mortally Wounded during the First Battle of Bull Run​

Died: July 22, 1861

Place of Death: Manassas, Virginia

Age at time of Death: 37 years old

Cause of Death: Wounds to the abdomen

Last Words: “Rally behind the Virginians! There stands Jackson like a Stonewall!”

Burial Place: Saint Paul's Episcopal Church, Pendleton, South Carolina

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D. S. Freeman (Lee's Lieutenants, Volume 1, Appendix V) cites A. Burnett Rhett, who attended Bee after his wounding, and James Hill, Bee's brother-in-law, as stating that Bee was incensed that Jackson refused to support Bee's and Bartow's heavily pressed commands when he made the stone wall statement. Obviously, Bee did not live long enough to clarify.
 
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