Julius Adolph de Lagnel
Julius Adolph de Lagnel (born July 24, 1827 in Newark , New Jersey , † June 3, 1912 in Washington, DC ) was a Confederate Brigadier General in the Civil War .
biography
Julius de Lagnel already served in the Mexican-American War from 1846 to 1848 and was accepted into the US Army as a sub-lieutenant in the artillery in 1847 .
In 1861 he resigned from active military service , but joined the Confederate States Army as a captain after the start of the Civil War in 1861 . He was badly wounded in the Battle of Rich Mountain on July 11, 1861 and rescued by a local resident. When he wanted to return to his unit masked as a cattle herder, he was captured and released on December 13, 1861 in exchange. In March 1862 he was in command of a battery and retained this position despite his promotion to brigadier general on April 15, 1862. After illness in July and August 1862, he was initially unfit for combat and then served in the orderly office until the end of the war.
After the end of the war, de Lagnel worked for a steamship company on the Pacific .
After his death he was buried in Saint Paul's Cemetery in Alexandria, Virginia .
See also
Web links
- Civil War Reference
- Jack D. Welsh: Medical Histories of Confederate Generals . Kent State University Press, Kent, Ohio 1999, ISBN 0-87338-649-3 , pp. 53 ff . (English, limited preview in Google Book Search).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Lagnel, Julius Adolph de |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | General of the Confederate States of America in the American Civil War |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 24, 1827 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Newark , New Jersey |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 3, 1912 |
| Place of death | Washington, DC |