John Randolph Chambliss, Jr.
John Randolph Chambliss, Jr. (born January 23, 1833 in Hicksford , Virginia , † August 16, 1864 in Richmond , Virginia) was an Army officer and Brigadier General of the Confederate Army in the Civil War .
Life
Chambliss graduated from the Military Academy at West Point , New York in 1853 as the 31st of his class and served first in the cavalry with the mounted riflemen and then until the next spring in the cavalry school in Carlisle , Pennsylvania . There he left the army. Chambliss went back to Hicksford and worked with his father, who was a member of the Constituent Assembly ("Constitunional Convention") in Virginia in 1861, on his plantation. During this time he was also a militia stage manager.
After the outbreak of the Civil War , the Governor of Virginia, Letcher , placed him in command of the 13th Virginia Cavalry Regiment, under the command of General Hill , because of his military past . On July 2, 1863, the regiment reached the area around Gettysburg and successfully covered the right flank with his soldiers, whereupon he was promoted to brigadier general.
Chambliss was killed on August 16, 1864 in a skirmish on Charles City Road , north of the James River near Richmond. General Lee's obituary read: "the loss sustained by the cavalry in the fall of General Chambliss will be felt throughout the army, in which, by his courage, energy and skill, he had won for himself an honorable name."
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 .
Web links
- John Randolph Chambliss, Jr. in the database of Find a Grave (English)
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SURNAME | Chambliss, John Randolph Jr. |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | General of the Confederate States of America in the American Civil War |
DATE OF BIRTH | January 23, 1833 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Hicksford , Virginia |
DATE OF DEATH | August 16, 1864 |
Place of death | near Richmond , Virginia |