Montgomery Dent Corse

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Montgomery Dent Corse

Montgomery Dent Corse (* 14. March 1816 in Alexandria , Virginia ; † 11. February 1895 ) was a brigadier general of the Confederate in the Civil War .

Life

Corse was the eldest son of John and Julia Corse. He received his training a. a. at the private military school in Colross. In 1846 he set up a company of volunteers and led them as a company commander in the Mexican-American War (1846-1848). After the war ended, he moved to California and tried his luck in the California gold rush . In 1856 he went back to his hometown Alexandria, settled there and served from 1859 as a first lieutenant in the Alexandria Home Guard . During a convalescence leave after several wounds in 1862, he married Elizabeth Beverley on November 22, with whom he had four children.

When the American Civil War broke out, he joined the Confederate Army and served as commander of the 17th Virginia Infantry Regiment. In the following years he took part in all major skirmishes and battles of the Northern Virginia Army and was promoted to brigadier general. Corse was wounded at the Second Battle of the Bull Run near Manassas , Virginia on August 30, 1862 and at the Battle of Antietam on September 17, 1862. On April 6, 1865, Union forces captured him in the skirmishes on Sailor's Creek and imprisoned him as a prisoner of war at Fort Warren , near Boston , Massachusetts .

After his release on July 24, 1865 and his return to Alexandria, he worked as a trader, opened a shop with his brother and became a member and sponsor of the RE Lee Camp , a home for Confederate war veterans.

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 Corse, Montgomery Dent
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Confederate General in the Civil War
DATE OF BIRTH March 14, 1816
PLACE OF BIRTH Alexandria , Virginia
DATE OF DEATH February 11, 1895
Place of death Alexandria , Virginia