|Cause of death:||killed in the Third Battle of Winchester|
|Managed by:||Doug Robinson| About Archibald Campbell Godwin
Archibald Campbell Godwin (1831-September 19, 1864) was an
brigadier general in the Confederate States Army who was killed
at the Third Battle of Winchester during the American Civil War.
Archibald C. Godwin was born in Nansemond County, Virginia in
1831, the son of Jonathan Lewis and Julia Campbell Godwin.
Before his first birthday, he was moved to Portsmouth, Virginia
to live with his grandmother. He was educated in Portsmouth.
Around the age of nineteen he went to California hoping to
strike it rich mining for gold. He was able to build a fortune
on gold mining, cattle, timber and real estate. In 1860, the
6'6" Godwin lost the Democratic Party nomination for governor by
one vote. Godwin returned to his native state when the American
Civil War broke out in 1861. He initially served as a captain
and then major in the provost and acted as assistant provost
marshal in charge of Libby Prison.