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R. Garnett
(1817 - 1863)
Home State: Virginia
Education: US Military Academy, West Point, NY, Class of 1841
Command Billet: Brigade Commander
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: Pickett's (Garnett's) Brigade
see his Battle Report
Before Sharpsburg
He graduated from the USMA in 1841, served in the Seminole war, and resigned his US commission as a Captain in May 1861. He was commissioned Major, and in November 1861, Brigadier General in the Provisional Army of the Confederate States. He commanded the Stonewall Brigade in the Shenandoah Valley campaign and at Kernstown, after which he was charged but not tried by Jackson for withdrawing his Brigade.
On the Campaign
He commanded Pickett's Brigade in Jones' Division.
The rest of the War
He led his own Brigade in Pickett's Division at Fredericksburg and in the famous Pickett's Charge on the third day at Gettysburg where he was killed.
References & notes
Birth
11/21/1817; Essex County, VA
Death
07/03/1863; Gettysburg, PA; burial in Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond, VA
1 Warner, Ezra J., Generals in Gray, Lives of the Confederate Commanders, Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press, 1959, p. 99 [AotW citation 31915]