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A. Cumming
(1829 - 1910)
Home State: Georgia
Education: US Military Academy, West Point, NY, Class of 1849
Command Billet: Brigade Commander
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
He graduated from the USMA in 1849, was on the Mormon expedition, but resigned his US Army commission in 1861 to join the Confederacy. He was appointed Lieutenant Colonel of the Augusta Volunteer Battalion, then Major of the 1st Georgia Infantry, and finally Lieutenant Colonel of the 10th Georgia Infnatry. He was in action with them on the Peninsula campaign, at Malvern Hill, whre he was wounded, and at Crampton's Gap on South Mountain.
On the Campaign
He was Colonel by Sharpsburg and led Wilcox's Brigade in R.H. Anderson's Division - General Wilcox was ill and at Martinsburg, VA from 14-19 September. He was wounded and relieved early in the action on the way to the Bloody Lane at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
In October 1862 he was appointed Brigadier General, and commanded the 3rd Brigade of Stevenson's Division at Champion's Hill and Vicksburg, where he was surrendered. He was paroled, then commanded his brigade in Stevenson's Division at Missionary Ridge, on the Atlanta campaign, at Snake Creek Gap, Resaca, and Jonesboro, where he was wounded again.
After the War
He was a farmer and on the American Military Commission to Korea.
References & notes
Birth
01/30/1829; Augusta, GA
Death
12/05/1910; Rome, GA; burial in Summerville Cemetery, Augusta, GA
1 Warner, Ezra J., Generals in Gray, Lives of the Confederate Commanders, Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press, 1959, p. 66 [AotW citation 31913]