CS generals died non combat causes...

Some additions to the list:
BG William E. Baldwin - died Feb 19, 1864, after fall from horse.​
BG Daniel S. Donelson - died Apr. 17, 1863, of chronic diarrhea.​
BG John B. Floyd - died Aug. 26, 1863.​
BG John B. Grayson - died Oct. 21, 1863, of lung disease.​
BG Allison Nelson - died Oct. 7, 1862, of typhoid fever.​
BG John B. Villepigue - died Nov. 9, 1862, of pneumonia.​
BG Claudius C. Wilson - died Nov. 27, 1863, of camp fever.​
BG John H. Winder - died Feb. 7, 1865, of heart attack.​
 
amputation as a result from being shot. And you are right about splitting hairs. As most of us know, many soldiers both sides of the ACW died of disease, sickness as a result of war time environment, conditions and exposure they were subjected as a result of war time service. The splitting hairs really comes down to causes - direct or indirect. Just my 2 cent.
I mean, the case of 'indirect' could even be made for BG Philip St George Cocke who took his own life. I've seen many accounts were his actions were described resulting from "melancholy" after 1st Manassas. His wife described this after he returned home from the battle. We've seen this described and term modified over three centuries - soldiers heart, battle fatigue, bomb scared, etc etc and now referred to as combat related PTSD. I actually believe (IMO) there was high likeliness more of these occurred during or after the ACW and not reported or accurately accounted for due to how 19th century society and culture treated suicide. It was something not openly spoken about and considered of extreme sensitivity. Cocke was a high profile person and most likely reason his was known.
Shell shock was the term my father and grandfather used..
 
Could be argued that Jackson didn't die from the wound at all but from the amputation of his arm. But I'd really be splitting hairs.

Jenkins I'm still reading the biography of.
Died from complications from treatments for his accidental lead poisoning.
 
General W.H.C. Whiting died in federal prison camp of dysentery, March 1865.

He was also wounded, somewhat severely, during the fall of Fort Fisher less than 2 months earlier which probably complicated matters and could have indirectly led to him falling ill. There is a story about Capt. Van Benthuysen of the Confederate States Marine Corps helping evacuate a wounded Whiting towards Battery Buchanan in Ralph Donnelly's book about the CSMC.
 

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