biography
| name: |
Ewell, Richard Stoddart
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pronunciation:
[yooel]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1817–72)
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| biography:
| US soldier, born in Georgetown, Washington, District of Columbia, USA. He trained at West Point (1840), and saw action in the Mexican War. He resigned his US commission in 1861 to serve the Confederacy. In command of an army corps during the Gettysburg campaign, he defeated Union forces N of the town (1 Jul 1863), but failed to press his advantage. Able and aggressive, the bald, high-domed Ewell bore, according to one of his biographers, ‘a striking resemblance to a woodcock’. |
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