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"Jere"
(1829 - 1912)
Home State: Alabama
Command Billet: Commanding Regiment
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 9th Alabama Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
An engineer before the War, from Jackson, Alabama, he was commissioned Captain, Company B - the Railroad Guards - of the 9th Alabama Infantry on 23 May 1861. He was promoted to Major of the Regiment in April 1862 (to rank from October 1861) while at Yorktown, Virginia.
On the Campaign
He was senior officer present in the regiment in Maryland, and took command of the Brigade at Sharpsburg after Colonel Cumming was wounded early on 17 September. He was himself wounded in action there.
The rest of the War
He was in command of the regiment at Chancellorsville in May 1863. He resigned his commission sometime before September 1863.
References & notes
Birth
03/28/1829 in AL
Death
03/06/1912; in AL; burial in Williams Family Cemetery, Bridgeport, AL
1 State of Alabama, State Archives, and Dr. Edwin C. Bridges, director, and staff, Alabama Department of Archives & History, Published c.2000, first accessed 08 July 2005, <http://www.archives.state.al.us/index.html>, Source page: /civilwar/index.cfm [AotW citation 1208]
2 Gallagher, Gary W., Editor, The Antietam Campaign, Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1999, pp. 223 - on [AotW citation 1209]