D.H. Christie

Confederate (CSV)

Colonel

Daniel Harvey Christie

(1833 - 1863)

Home State: North Carolina

Command Billet: Commanding Regiment

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 23rd North Carolina Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

Raised in Loudoun County, Virginia, he had been a teacher and merchant in Norfolk before establishing a military school in 1857 in Henderson, NC. He was appointed Major of the 23rd Infantry on 10 June 1861, and was elected Colonel on 10 May 1862.

On the Campaign

He led the regiment at Fox's Gap on 14 September and at Sharpsburg on 17 September. He was briefly in command of Anderson's North Carolina Brigade on the 18th 1.

The rest of the War

He was wounded in action at Gettysburg on 1 July 1863, and died 17 July at Winchester, Virginia.

References & notes

The photo above is from Clark 1. Service history from Moore's Roster2, with further biographical detail from Colonels3.

Birth

03/28/1833; Frederick County, VA

Death

07/17/1863; Winchester, VA; burial in Mt. Hebron Cemetery, Winchester, VA

Notes

1 Clark, Walter, editor, Histories of the Several Regiments and Battalions from North Carolina in the Great War, 1861-1865, 5 vols., Raleigh and Goldsboro (NC): E. M. Uzzell, Nash Brothers, printers, 1901, Vol. 2, pg. 181 [AotW citation 985]

2 Moore, John Wheeler (compiler), and State of North Carolina, Roster of North Carolina Troops in the War Between the States, 4 volumes, Raleigh: Ashe & Gatling, State Printers and Publishers, 1882, Vol. 2, pg. 252 [AotW citation 986]

3 Allardice, Bruce S., Confederate Colonels, Columbia (Mo): University of Missouri Press, 2008, pg. 97 [AotW citation 987]

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