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The Confederate order of battle during the Battle of Gettysburg includes the American Civil War officers and men of the Army of Northern Virginia (multiple commander names indicate command succession during the three-day battle (July 1–3, 1863)).
Youngest Confederate general officer on date of appointment. Assigned a division in Wheeler's corps. During Atlanta campaign raid, mortally wounded in an action at Franklin, Tennessee, September 2, 1864. Left with William H. Harrison family; died a few days later, probably September 4, 1864, aged 24. Kemper, James Lawson: Brigadier general
An 1863 oval-shaped map depicting the Gettysburg Battlefield during the three-day Battle of Gettysburg, showing troop and artillery positions and movements, relief hachures, drainage, roads, railroads, and houses with the names of Gettysburg residents at the time of the battle A November 1862 Harper's Magazine illustration showing Confederate Army troops escorting captured African American ...
Battle of Gettysburg: Pennsylvania: A: Union: Lee loses to Meade, Pickett's Charge fails, ends second invasion of North. Confederate army arrived in Gettysburg to resupply army, unaware of Union army nearby. July 4, 1863: Battle of Helena: Arkansas: B: Union: Confederate assault on river port fails securing eastern Arkansas for Union. July 6 ...
The Gallant Dead: Union & Confederate Generals Killed in the Civil War. Mechanicsburg, PA: Stackpole Books, 2005. ISBN 0-8117-0132-8. Tagg, Larry. The Generals of Gettysburg. Campbell, CA: Savas Publishing, 1998. ISBN 1-882810-30-9. Warner, Ezra J. Generals in Gray: Lives of the Confederate Commanders. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University ...
William Barksdale (August 21, 1821 – July 3, 1863) was an American lawyer, newspaper editor, U.S. Representative, and Confederate general in the American Civil War.He served four terms in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1853 to 1861.
Harper's Weekly cover, July 11, 1863: "Major-General George G. Meade, the New Commander of the Army of the Potomac — Photographed by Brady". The Union order of battle during the Battle of Gettysburg includes the American Civil War officers and men of the Army of the Potomac (multiple commander names indicate succession of command during the three-day battle (July 1–3, 1863)).
The list of American Civil War (Civil War) generals has been divided into five articles: an introduction on this page, a list of Union Army generals, a list of Union brevet generals, a list of Confederate Army generals and a list of prominent acting Confederate States Army generals, which includes officers appointed to duty by E. Kirby Smith, officers whose appointments were never confirmed or ...