{⋆★⋆} BG Posey, Carnot

Carnot Posey​

Born: August 5, 1818

Birthplace: Wilkinson County, Mississippi

Father: John Brooks Posey 1784 – 1838

Mother: Elizabeth Screven 1788 – 1848

Wife: Jane White 1827 – 1892

(Buried: Glenwood Cemetery, Yazoo City, Mississippi)​

Children:

Stanhope Posey 1841 – 1893​

(Buried: Glenwood Cemetery, Yazoo City, Mississippi)​

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John T. Posey 1852 – 1883​

(Buried: Glenwood Cemetery, Yazoo City, Mississippi)​

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Mason E. Sanders Posey 1854 – 1900​

(Buried: A. R. Dyche Memorial Park, London, Kentucky)​

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Ellen A. Posey 1855 – 1913​

(Buried: Glenwood Cemetery, Yazoo City, Mississippi)​

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Elizabeth Posey 1858 – 1914​

(Buried: Glenwood Cemetery, Yazoo City, Mississippi)​

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Carnot Posey Jr. 1859 – 1883​

(Buried: Glenwood Cemetery, Yazoo City, Mississippi)​

Education:

Graduated from University of Virginia​

Occupation before War:

Attorney in Woodville, Mississippi​

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1846 – 1848: Served in Mexican – American War rising to Lt.​

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1847: Wounded at the Battle of Buena Vista, Mexico​

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1857 – 1861: United States District Attorney in Southern Mississippi​

Civil War Career:

1861: Recruited the Wilkinson Rifles State Militia​

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1861: Captain of Wilkinson Rifles State Militia​

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1861 – 1862: Colonel of 16th​ Mississippi Infantry Regiment​

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1862: Wounded at the Battle of Cross Keys, Virginia​

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1862: Served in the Seven Days Campaign in Virginia​

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1862: Temporary Brigade Commander in Maryland Campaign​

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1862: Successfully Repelled a Union Attack at Battle of Fredericksburg​

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1863: Brigadier General of Confederate Army Infantry​

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1863: Saw limited action at the Battle of Chancellorsville, Virginia​

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1863: Served on the 2nd​ day at Cemetery Ridge at Battle of Gettysburg​

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1863: Wounded in the thigh at the Battle of Bristoe Station​

Died: November 13, 1863

Place of Death: Room 33, West Lawn at University of Virginia

Cause of Death: Infection from his wound in his thigh

Age at time of Death: 45 years old

Burial Place: University of Virginia Cemetery, Charlottesville, Virginia

 

[Tom Elmore]

Posey attended the University of Virginia's Law School in 1836. Reportedly he attended a college in Jackson, Mississippi in 1835. (The University Memorial, Biographical Sketches, Alumni of the University of Virginia who Fell in the Confederate War, by Rev. Lipscomb Johnson, Baltimore, MD: Turnbull Brothers, 1871, p. 517)

During the Mexican War, he served under Colonel Jefferson Davis in the 1st Mississippi Rifles. (Sketches, The Battle of Gettysburg, by Jesse Bowman Young)

 

[Pollaco]

General Featherston was ill at the time of Antietam and was slated to be replaced by Col. Posey but returned to duty which upset Lee's plan. So Posey found himself without a command until Featherston transferred back to Mississippi after Fredricksburg.

 

[gentlemanrob]

Happy Birthday Brig. General Carnot Posey! Salutes remembering General Posey on his birthday.

 

[DixieRifles]

Happy Birthday!!

 

[Pollaco]

At Gettysburg Posey's brigade was assigned to General Richard H.Anderson's division in A. P. Hill's Corps.