Goode Bryan

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General Bryan

Goode Bryan , (born August 31, 1811 in Hancock County , Georgia , † August 16, 1885 in Augusta , Georgia), was a lawyer, brigadier general in the Confederate Army during the Civil War and then worked in the care of former Confederate soldiers.

Life

Bryan graduated from the Military Academy at West Point , New York in 1834 as the 25th of his class and then served as a lieutenant with the 5th Infantry Regiment. After 10 months of service, he went back to Georgia, where he cultivated land for a plantation, as well as in Alabama . In 1846/47 he served for eleven months with the 1st Alabama Infantry Regiment in the Mexican-American War . Then he worked on his plantation again.

With the beginning of the Civil War, Bryan joined the Confederate Army as a captain of the 16th Georgia Infantry Regiment and was appointed regimental commander in February 1862. The regiment's first major fighting was the Seven Day Battle of June 25th - July 1st, 1862. Then the Invasion of Maryland and the Battle of Chancellorsville on May 2nd and 5th, 1863, as well as the Battle of Gettysburg , July 1-3, 1863. On August 29, 1863, Bryan was promoted to Brigadier General and placed under Lieutenant General Longstreet's command in Tennessee . He fought in the Battle of Chickamauga on September 19-20, 1963 . In the spring of 1864 he was back in Virginia and led a brigade in the Battle of the Wilderness from May 5-6, 1864, until their ammunition was nearly exhausted. A little later he got health problems and left the army.

After the war, due to his poor health, he largely withdrew from the public and spent his old age in peace.

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 0132759918 )
  • 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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SURNAME Bryan, Goode
BRIEF DESCRIPTION General of the Confederate States of America in the American Civil War
DATE OF BIRTH August 31, 1811
PLACE OF BIRTH Hancock County , Georgia
DATE OF DEATH August 16, 1885
Place of death Augusta , Georgia