John Wesley Frazer

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General Frazer

John Wesley Frazer (born January 6, 1827 in Hardin County , Tennessee , † March 31, 1906 in New York , New York ) was an officer in the US Army and brigadier general of the Confederate States of America in the Civil War .

Life

Frazer attended the military academy in West Point , New York, after completing his schooling , which he successfully completed in 1849 as the 34th of his year. He then served as a lieutenant in the 2nd US Infantry Regiment in Fort Columbus , Kings County , on Governors Island , New York. He was promoted to lieutenant in the 9th Infantry Regiment on March 8, 1855, and served at Camp Far West , Monroe , Virginia , and in a recruiting office until 1857. Promoted to captain on May 1, 1857, he served at Fort Simcoe and Fort Colville , Washington .

On March 15, 1861, about a month before the outbreak of the civil war, Frazer resigned from the US Army and decided to join the Confederate Army . Forney was taken as captain. When the 8th Alabama Infantry Regiment was established, Frazer was appointed deputy commander and promoted to lieutenant colonel. A few months later he was appointed commander of the 28th Alabama Infantry Regiment, with which he fought on April 6 and 7, 1862 in the Battle of Shiloh . He then took part in the Kentucky campaign under General Braxton Bragg . On May 19, 1863 Frazer was promoted to brigadier general and stationed in Tennessee, where he took over the supreme command of various regiments .

After the fall of the Confederate line from Knoxville to Chattanooga and the hopelessness of his situation, Frazer surrendered on September 9, 1863 to William Wallace Burns , a brigadier general of the Union Forces . For this act he was first reprimanded by Jefferson Davis , President of the Confederate , but after all the circumstances became known, he was exonerated.

After the war, Frazer became a trader and planter in Memphis , Tennessee.

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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SURNAME Frazer, John Wesley
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Confederate General in the American Civil War
DATE OF BIRTH January 6, 1827
PLACE OF BIRTH Hardin County , Tennessee , United States
DATE OF DEATH March 31, 1906
Place of death New York City , New York , United States