Barnard Elliott Bee

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Barnard Elliott Bee

Barnard Elliott Bee (born February 8, 1824 in Charleston , South Carolina , † July 22, 1861 in his command post at Manassas , Virginia ) was an officer in the US Army , Brigadier General of the Confederate Army in the Civil War and the brother of Brigadier General Hamilton Prioleau Bee .

Life

Bee was born in South Carolina to Barnard E. Bee, Sr. , an early settler and political leader of the Republic of Texas and his wife Ann Wragg, b. Fayssoux, born. Both parents came from respected families. In 1833 the family moved to Pendleton , South Carolina, where the young Bee attended Pendleton Academy . Just 3 years later, his parents moved on to Texas . However, he stayed to complete his education and lived with his mother's three sisters.

Bee graduated from the West Point Military Academy in 1845 as 33rd of his class and then served as a lieutenant in the 3rd Infantry Regiment. He took part in the Mexican-American War from 1846 to 1848 and was awarded twice for valor, at the Battle of Cerro Gordo and the Battle of Chapultepec . After the Mexican-American War he was posted as an adjutant first to Pascagoula , Mississippi , a coastal city on the Gulf of Mexico and the district capital of Jackson County , then from 1849 to 1855 as an officer at Fort Fillmore , near Las Cruces , New Mexico . In 1855 he was promoted to captain , appointed company commander of D Company, 10th Infantry Regiment, and transferred to Fort Snelling , Minnesota . Here he married Sophia Elizabeth Hill.

In 1857 he took part with his company in the Utah War between the US government and the Mormons , where he was simultaneously given command of the Utah Volunteer Battalion and was promoted to lieutenant colonel. In 1860, Bee became the commandant of Fort Laramie , Wyoming .

On March 3, 1861, Bee resigned his service with the US Army, went back to Charleston and served as a lieutenant colonel in the 1st South Carolina Infantry Regiment. On June 17 of the same year he was promoted to brigadier general and marched with his brigade towards Manassas Junction . On July 21, 1861, under the command of General Beauregard , he took part in the First Battle of the Bull Run and was mortally wounded when the Confederates won the battle in their favor. Bee died of his injuries a day later.

It was Bee who first gave General Jackson the nickname "Stonewall" during this battle, under which he later also became known as "Stonewall Jackson".

See also

literature

  • David J. Eicher, The Civil War in Books: An Analytical Bibliography , University of Illinois, 1997, ISBN 0-252-02273-4
  • Richard N. Current, Encyclopedia of the Confederacy (1993) (4 vol.) ( ISBN 0-13-275991-8 )
  • John H. Eicher & David J. Eicher, Civil War High Commands , Stanford University Press, 2001, ISBN 0-8047-3641-3
  • Ezra J. Warner, Generals in Gray: Lives of the Confederate Commanders , Louisiana State University Press, 1959, ISBN 0-8071-0823-5

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personal data
SURNAME Bee, Barnard Elliott
BRIEF DESCRIPTION General of the Confederate States of America in the American Civil War
DATE OF BIRTH February 8, 1824
PLACE OF BIRTH Charleston , South Carolina
DATE OF DEATH July 22, 1861
Place of death near Manassas , Virginia