{⋆★⋆} BG Winder, John H.

John Henry Winder​

Born: February 7, 1800

Birthplace: Rewston Plantation, Somerset County, Maryland

Father: Brig. General William Henry Winder 1775 – 1824

(Buried: Green Mount Cemetery, Baltimore, Maryland)​

Mother: Gertrude Polk 1781 – 1872

(Buried: Green Mount Cemetery, Baltimore, Maryland)​

1st Wife: Elizabeth Shepherd 1804 – 1825

(Buried: Green Mount Cemetery, Baltimore, Maryland)​

2nd Wife: Caroline Ann Cox

Children:

William Sidney Winder 1828 –​

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Captain William Andrew Winder 1829 – 1903

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Major John Cox Winder 1831 – 1896​

(Buried: Oakwood Cemetery, Raleigh, North Carolina)​

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Thomas P. Winder 1830 –​

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Getrude Winder 1832 –​

Education:

1820: Graduated from West Point Military Academy (11th​ in class)​

Occupation before War:

1820 – 1823: Served in United States Army rising to 2nd​ Lt.​

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1823 – 1827: Unsuccessfully Managed his father's Plantation​

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1827 – 1861: Served in United States Army rising to Brevet Lt. Colonel​

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1837: Tactics Instructor at West Point Military Academy​

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1838 – 1840: Regimental Adjutant for 1st​ United States Artillery​

Civil War Career:

1861: Colonel of Confederate Army Infantry​

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1861 – 1865: Brigadier General of Confederate Army Infantry​

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1861: Assistant Inspector General of Camps of Instruction

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1861 – 1864: Commander of Department of Henrico​

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1864: Commander of 2nd​ District of North Carolina & Southern Virginia​

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1864: Commander of Camp Sumter​

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1864: Commander of Military Prisons in Georgia​

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1864: Commander of Military Prisons in Alabama​

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1864 – 1865: Commander of Confederate Bureau of Prison Camps​

Died: February 7, 1865

Place of Death: Florence, South Carolina

Cause of Death: Heart Attack

Age at time of Death: 64 years old

Burial Place: Green Mount Cemetery, Baltimore, Maryland

 

[Pollaco]

Had he survived the Civil War it very well could have been him who was hanged instead of Henry Wirz. On Nov. 21, 1864 he was placed in charge of all prison camps east of the Mississippi. .

 

[Pollaco]

I can't find the exact date but earlier in the war He was made provost marshal in Richmond. Included in his duties were the prisoners at Belle Isle and Libby Prison.

 

[gentlemanrob]

Happy Birthday Month to Brig. General John H. Winder some sources say his birthday was February 7th some say February 21st. Salutes remembering General Winder on his birthday month.

 

[USS ALASKA]

General John H. Winder, C.S.A. by Arch Fredric Blakey

After almost forty years in the U.S. Army, Winder spent the last four years of his life as a Confederate brigadier general. His command of Richmond earned him the contempt of the Confederate civilians; and, as commandant of all Union prisoners, he became known to northerners as the "beast" of Andersonville. This is a study in military ethics, an examination of one man's attempt to do his duty withough tarnishing his honor, and an account of his failures and their enduring consequences.

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[Pollaco]

Winder and brigadier general George Ramsay (U.S.) were the only 2 "Civil War" generals to come from his West Point class.

 

[Copperhead-mi]

Had he survived the Civil War it very well could have been him who was hanged instead of Henry Wirz. On Nov. 21, 1864 he was placed in charge of all prison camps east of the Mississippi. .

I tend to agree. When Wirz was the commander of the stockade at Andersonville, John H. Winder was his commanding officer.

"One of the chief instruments employed in the infliction of cruelties upon Union prisoners was Brigadier-General John H. Winder, an inciter of the mob which attacked the Massachusetts troops in Baltimore. So notorious for his cruel acts had he become, that when (at the age of seventy years) he was sent to Georgia to carry on his horrid work at Andersonville, the Richmond Examiner exclaimed:
'Thank God Richmond has, at last, got rid of old Winder! God have mercy upon those to whom he has been sent.'"
Lossing, Benson J., A History of the United States from the Discovery of America to the Present Time, pg. 695.

 

[Pollaco]

Happy Birthday Month to Brig. General John H. Winder some sources say his birthday was February 7th some say February 21st. Salutes remembering General Winder on his birthday month.

Right.Some Bios differ as to his actual birthday but He did die on the 7th of Feb.1865.

 

[Pollaco]

Second cousin to Confederate general Charles Sidney Winder who was killed at the Battle of Cedar Mountain.

 

[Pollaco]

He only taught tactics at West Point for 1 year and I believe it was 1827 not 1837. He lost his position for losing his temper with a cadet. But while he was there he met Jefferson Davis and Robert E. Lee.I would be most curious as to who that cadet was that made him lose his temper.

 

[Pollaco]

I can't find the exact date but earlier in the war He was made provost marshal in Richmond. Included in his duties were the prisoners at Belle Isle and Libby Prison.

On March 1,1862 Jefferson Davis declared martial law in Richmond. Winder was designated as provost marshal general.Winder's first order was the establishment of prohibition of alcohol and the surrender of all firearms by citizens.He earned the moniker "The Dictator of Richmond" when crime soared due also in part to a corrupt police department.

 

[Pollaco]

As Provost Marshal he was responsible for deserters as well martial law and prisons. And for a short time Winder set commodity prices for the residents of Richmond. Richmond doubled in population during this time period.

 

[ErnieMac]

Winder is a significant character in MacKinlay Kantor's novel Andersonville and is presented in a very negative light.

 

[ErnieMac]

John Winder's father, BG William H. Winder was the commander of U.S. forces at the Battle of Bladensburg on August 24, 1814, during the War of 1812. The American defeat there opened the way for the British to capture Washington DC.

 

[USS ALASKA]

I can't find the exact date but earlier in the war He was made provost marshal in Richmond. Included in his duties were the prisoners at Belle Isle and Libby Prison.

Old Dominion University
ODU Digital Commons
History Theses & Dissertations
Fall 1986

General John Henry Winder's Administration of Martial Law in Richmond, 1862-1864
John Michael Cobb
Old Dominion University

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ABSTRACT
General John Henry Winder enforced martial law in the Confederate capital in Richmond from the winter of 1862 to the spring of 1864. Winder's Richmond was plagued with lawlessness, disloyalty, and espionage. He was an experienced and capable commander who enforced his summary orders diligently. But Winder's regime only succeeded in managing the city for brief periods. The complex problems he confronted probably were insurmountable; by the end of his administration Richmond remained in turmoil. Several factors were responsible for this: numerous people were willing to risk prison to participate in the lucrative liquor trade, the basis for much of the lawlessness; the insufficient civil and military police force was pitted against a transient population which more than tripled; the Congress, the city council, and the War Department limited Winder's power; and the detective force alienated many of the people they were charged to protect.

https://digitalcommons.odu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1091&context=history_etds

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