James Conner (Major General)

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James Conner

James Conner (born September 1, 1829 in Charleston , South Carolina , † June 26, 1883 in Richmond , Virginia ) was an American lawyer and brigadier general of the Confederate Army in the Civil War .

Life

Conner was born in Charleston in 1829 to Henry W. Conner. He finished 1849 successfully the South Carolina College and then studied under James L. Petigru law . In 1852 Conner was admitted to the Bar and in 1856 was appointed District Attorney.

When the civil war broke out, Conner joined the Confederate Army and became a captain company commander of the Montgomery Guards , a local Milliz company, then company commander of the A Company ( Washington Light Infantry ) in the Hamptons Legion. After Hamptons wounded during the First Battle of the Bull Run , he temporarily led the Legion and was promoted to major on July 21, 1861. As a colonel , he took command of the 22nd North Carolina Infantry Regiment after the Battle of Seven Pines on June 13, 1862, with whom he took part in the Seven Day Battle until he was wounded during the Battle of Gaines Mill . Conner led the regiment for two years and took part in all battles of the Northern Virginia Army until October 8, 1863 . Conner has been appointed Judge Advocate General for the Second Corps of the Northern Virginia Army. On June 1, 1864, Conner was promoted to brigadier general and successively led two different brigades during the first months of the siege of Petersburg . Conner was then assigned to lead Kershaw's brigade during Sheridan's campaign in Shenandoah Valley. In an outpost skirmish, six days before the battle at Cedar Creek, he was so badly wounded that one leg had to be amputated. Although Conner was no longer fit for use in the field, he remained brigade commander until the end of the war. On February 25, 1865, the Brigade was placed under General Johnston's Tennessee Army in the Carolinas.

After the war, Conner took on assistant positions at the South Carolina Railroad , the Bank of Charleston and the Greenville & Columbia Railroad for the next several years . From 1876 until his death on June 26, 1883, he was Attorney General of the State of South Carolina. Conner is buried in Magnolia Cemetery in Charleston, South Carolina.

See also

Notes and individual references

  1. ↑ Legions were regiments capable of combined forces operations , consisting of infantry, artillery and cavalry units. As the war went on, they lost this ability.

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 ( online here ), 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 Conner, James
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American lawyer, Major General of the Confederate States in the American Civil War
DATE OF BIRTH September 1, 1829
PLACE OF BIRTH Charleston , South Carolina
DATE OF DEATH June 26, 1883
Place of death Richmond , Virginia