Birthplace: Edgefield District, SC Location of death:
Gainesville, GA Cause of death: unspecified Religion: Roman
Catholic Race or Ethnicity: White Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Confederate Army General Military service: US
Army (1842-61); Confederate Army (1861-65) American soldier,
lieutenant-general in the Confederate army, was born on the 8th
of February 1821 in Edgefield District, South Carolina, and
graduated at West Point in 1842. He served in the Mexican War,
was severely wounded, and received two brevets for gallantry. In
1861, having attained the rank of major, he resigned when his
state seceded, and became a brigadier-general in the Confederate
army. In this rank he fought at the first battle of Bull Run,
and subsequently at the head of a division in the Peninsular
campaign and the Seven Days. This division subsequently became
the nucleus of the 1st corps, Army of Northern Virginia, which
was commanded throughout the war by Longstreet. This corps took
part in the battles of second B