James Henry Lane

After graduating, he was a civil engineer and teacher (VMI, West Seminary at Tallahassee, FL., North Carolina Military Institute at Charlotte, NC).

He was Major and Lieutenant Colonel, of the 1st (3 months) North Carolina Infantry Regt; then Colonel, 28th North Carolina Infantry.

Commanded the 28th NC in Branch's Brigade of A.P. Hill's Light Division in Jackson's Command and succeeded to the command of the Brigade after Brigadier General L. O'B. Branch fell.

Appointed Brigadier General November 1862, he commanded his brigade at Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, the Wilderness, and Petersburg.

After the War he was an educator - he taught at various universities, notably Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Missouri School of Mines, and Alabama Agricultural and Mechanical College (now Auburn University), where he was professor of civil engineering. He died at Auburn, AL on September 21, 1907 and is buried there.

Educator; taught at various universities, notably Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Missouri School of Mines, and Alabama Agricultural and Mechanical College (now Auburn University), where he was professor of civil engineering.

A number of his personal papers are at the archives at Auburn, along with some more photographs of him.

7/28/1833; Mathews Court House, VA

9/21/1907; Auburn, AL