| Summary: | (Uniform indicates rank of colonel.) Mexican War veteran. Commissioned as a colonel in the Confederate Army in August 1861 and assigned to the 2nd Kentucky Infantry. Promoted to brigadier general in December 1862. Major campaigns and battles include Fort Donelson (captured and exchanged), Nashville, and Stones River. Died as a result of a wound received at Stones River in January 1863. Buried in Lexington, Kentucky. Sources: Boatner, Mark M. The Civil War Dictionary. New York: Vintage Books, 1988. Davis, William C., ed. The Confederate General. Vol. 3. National Historical Society, 1991.
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