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Mary Richards, also known as Mary Jane Richards Garvin and possibly Mary Bowser (born 1846), was a Union spy during the Civil War. [1] She was possibly born enslaved from birth in Virginia , but there is no documentation of where she was born or who her parents were.
See incomplete appointments section in List of American Civil War Generals (Acting Confederate). Warner lists as general; Eicher does not. Despite lack of Senate confirmation often identified as last Confederate general to die of wounds from battle. Deas, Zachariah Cantey: Brigadier general rank: December 13, 1862 nom: December 20, 1862
Appointed full General in Confederate Army, August 30, 1861, to date from May 30, 1861. Given command of western theater operations. Killed in action at the Battle of Shiloh, April 6, 1862. [29] Winfield Scott: June 13, 1786 Major General: June 25, 1841 Brevet Lieutenant General: March 29, 1847 U.S.A Distinguished veteran of the War of 1812 and ...
Edward Johnson (1816–1873), U.S. Army officer and Confederate general, American Civil War; Mary Johnston (1870–1936), novelist and women's rights advocate; David Rumph Jones (1825–1863), U.S. Army officer and Confederate General, American Civil War; Mildred Callahan Jones (1943–2008), decorative flag businesswoman [53]
John Brown Gordon (() February 6, 1832 – () January 9, 1904) was an American politician, Confederate States Army general, attorney, slaveowner and planter. "One of Robert E. Lee's most trusted generals" by the end of the Civil War according to historian Ed Bearss, [1]: 241 he strongly opposed Reconstruction era.
The Battle of Antietam (/ æ n ˈ t iː t əm / an-TEE-təm), also called the Battle of Sharpsburg, particularly in the Southern United States, took place during the American Civil War on September 17, 1862, between Confederate General Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia and Union Major General George B. McClellan's Army of the Potomac near Sharpsburg, Maryland, and Antietam Creek.
James Longstreet (January 8, 1821 – January 2, 1904) was a Confederate general during the American Civil War and was the principal subordinate to General Robert E. Lee, who called him his "Old War Horse".
Tolson's Chapel and School is a historic African American church located at Sharpsburg, Washington County, Maryland, United States. It was built in 1866 and served as a church and a Freedmen's Bureau school for black residents of Sharpsburg in the years following the American Civil War . [ 2 ]