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D.G. McIntosh
(1836 - 1916)
Home State: South Carolina
Education: South Carolina College, Class of 1855
Command Billet: Battery Commander
Branch of Service: Artillery
Unit: Pee Dee (SC) Artillery
Before Sharpsburg
A lawyer before the War, he enrolled as Captain, Co. D, 1st South Carolina Infantry on 29 July 1861, which converted and became the PeeDee Artillery in March 1862.1
On the Campaign
Battery Commander on the Maryland Campaign.
The rest of the War
He was promoted to Major on 2 March 1863, commanding an artillery Battalion, and Lieutenant Colonel on 27 February 1864. He was wounded in action (probably at/near Petersburg) 18 August 1864, and made Colonel 18 February 1865. By War's end he was Chief of Artillery of the Second Corps, ANV.1
After the War
He practiced law at Towson, Maryland, and was later President of the Maryland Bar Association.1
References & notes
His picture from a photograph in Miller.2
Birth
03/16/1836; Society Hill, SC
Death
10/06/1916; Towson, MD; burial in Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond, VA
1 Krick, Robert K., Lee's Colonels: A Biographical Register of the Field Officers of the Army of Northern Virginia, Dayton (Oh): Morningside Press, 1979, pg. 235 [AotW citation 355]
2 Miller, Francis Trevelyan, editor in chief, Photographic History of the Civil War, 10 vols., New York: The Review of Reviews Co., 1911-12, Vol. 10, pg. 27 [AotW citation 29397]