biography
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| male
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| lived:
| (1821–97)
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| biography:
| US soldier, born in Augusta, Georgia, USA. A West Point graduate (1842), he served in the Mexican War and in the West. He went over to the Confederate army (1861), and as a regimental, brigade, and finally division commander, he fought at Antietam, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, and Gettysburg. He was relieved of command and court-martialled for his failure to relieve Knoxville, TN (Nov 1863) but was exonerated. After the war he served as postmaster of Savannah, GA. |
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