Jeremy Francis Gilmer

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Jeremy Francis Gilmer

Jeremy Francis Gilmer (born February 23, 1818 in Guilford County , North Carolina , † December 1, 1883 in Savannah , Georgia ) was an officer in the US Army and a major general of the Confederate States of America in the Civil War .

Life

Gilmer successfully completed his studies at the Military Academy in West Point , New York , in 1839 as the fourth of his class . My classmate was u. a. the future Commander in Chief of the US Army Henry Wager Halleck . Gilmer served as a lieutenant in the United States Army Corps of Engineers from July of that year . In the following years his main task was the planning and design of fortifications along the coast of Georgia and Florida .

In 1861, at the outbreak of the Civil War, he resigned with the rank of major, offered his services to the Confederates and a few days later became a senior engineer officer in the staff of General Albert S. Johnston , with whom he met on April 6th Also took part in the Battle of Shiloh in 1862 and was wounded several times. After his recovery, Gilmer was named senior engineer officer for the Norg-Virginia Military Area in Richmond , Virginia in August 1862 . In August 1863, Gilmer was promoted to major general. His first assignment was to coordinate the defenses of the city of Charleston , South Carolina . In June 1864 he returned to Richmond and was again chief engineer officer of the military sector until the end of the war.

When the war ended, Gilmer became director of the Georgia Central Railroad and later president of Savannah Gas-Light . He was married to Louisa Fredericka Alexander Gilmer and had one daughter. His older brother John was a politician for North Carolina in the US House of Representatives and in the Confederate Congress .

Historians are still interested in his preserved records of forts along the east coast and over 150 maps and survey data from the time of the civil war.

See also

Literature / sources

  • 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 Gilmer, Jeremy Francis
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Confederate General in the American Civil War
DATE OF BIRTH February 23, 1818
PLACE OF BIRTH Guilford County , North Carolina
DATE OF DEATH December 1, 1883
Place of death Savannah , Georgia