Alfred Cumming (General)
Alfred Cumming (born January 30, 1829 in Augusta , Georgia , † December 5, 1910 in Rome , Georgia) was an officer in the US Army and Brigadier General of the Confederate Army during the War of Civilizations .
Life
Cumming graduated from the US Military Academy at West Point , New York in 1849 as the 35th of his class. He then served in the West under David E. Twiggs and Albert S. Johnston . He left the US Army in January 1861 and then trained volunteers for the Georgian Army. In July 1861, he was promoted to Lieutenant Colonel in the 10th Georgia Infantry Regiment. In October of the same year Cummings was promoted to colonel and on October 29, 1862, after two wounds in the Battle of Malvern Hill and the Battle of Antietam , promoted to brigadier general. In 1863, Cumming served underJohn C. Pemberton during the Second Vicksburg Campaign and the Battle of Vicksburg , where he became a prisoner of war . After a prisoner swap, Alfred Cummings Brigade was assigned to Carter L. Stevensons Division in the Tennessee Confederate Army . Cummings retired from the service after being wounded in the Battle of Jonesboro.
After the war, Alfred Cumming worked as a farmer in Rome, Georgia. In 1888 he traveled to Korea with a delegation of military personnel . Alfred Cumming died on his farm on December 5, 1910 and was buried in his hometown of Augusta, Georgia.
literature
- Ezra J. Warner: Generals in Gray - Lives of the Confederate Commanders . Louisiana State University Press, Baton Rouge (LA) 1959
- James Spencer: Civil War Generals . Greenwood Press Inc., Westport (CO) 1986
Web links
- Alfred Cumming in the database of Find a Grave (English)
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Cumming, Alfred |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Brigadier General of the Army of the Confederate States of America in the Civil War |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 30, 1829 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Augusta , Georgia |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 5, 1910 |
| Place of death | Rome , Georgia |