American soldier, born at Camden, SC, on the 5th of January 1822. He was admitted to the bar in 1843; served in the state senate from 1852 to 1857, and was a member of the secession convention in 1860. When the Civil War broke out he raised a regiment and joined the Confederate army; became a major-general before the close of the war, and was then imprisoned for several months at Fort Warren. He was engaged in the battles of Bull Run, Antietam, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville and Chickamauga, and it was his brigade that led Longstreet’s charge at Gettysburg, in which he lost half his men. He was president of the state senate (1865–66), judge of the circuit court of the state (1877–93); and at the time of his death was postmaster at Camden. He died at Camden on the 13th of April 1894.
