Birkett Davenport Fry
Born: June 24, 1822
Birth Place: Kanawha County, Virginia
Father: Francis Thornton Fry Sr. 1787 – 1861
(Buried: Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond, Virginia)
Mother: Eliza Rootes Thompson 1794 – 1885
(Buried: Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond, Virginia)
Wife: Martha A. Fry 1823 – 1878
(Buried: Oakwood Cemetery, Montgomery, Alabama)
Education:
Attended Virginia Military Institute
Attended West Point Military Academy
Occupation before War:
Served in the Mexican War rising to Lt.
One of the forty Niner's in California
Cotton Manufacture in Alabama
Cotton Mill Owner in Tallassee, Alabama
Civil War Career:
1861 – 1864: Colonel of 13th Alabama Infantry Regiment
1862: Wounded during the Battle of Seven Pines
1862: Wounded during the Battle of Antietam
1863: Wounded during the Battle of Chancellorsville
1863: Wounded during the Battle of Gettysburg
1863 – 1864: Prisoner of War held by the Union Army
1864: Served in the Siege of Petersburg, Virginia
1864 – 1865: Brigadier General of Confederate Army Infantry
1864 – 1865: Commander of a military District in South Carolina And Georgia
Occupation after War:
Lived in Havana Cuba Hotels with other confederate generals
Businessman in Tallahassee, Alabama
President of Cotton Mill in Richmond, Virginia
Died: January 21, 1891
Place of Death: Richmond, Virginia
Cause of Death: Diarrhea and Hemorrhage of the bowels
Age at time of Death: 68 years old
Burial Place: Oakwood Cemetery, Montgomery, Alabama
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