| Summary: | (Uniform indicates rank of colonel.) Appointed captain in the Mississippi State Army in April 1861; entered Confederate service in May 1861. After promoting through the grades, Harris was promoted to brigadier general in January 1864. Major campaigns and battles include Williamsburg, Seven Pines, Seven Days' (wounded), Second Manassas (wounded), Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, Spotsylvania, Petersburg, and the defense of Richmond. After the war, Harris returned to Mississippi. He died in England in August 1900 and is buried in Brooklyn, New York. 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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