| Summary: | (Uniform indicates rank of brigadier general). Graduated from West Point, 1828; classmate of Jefferson Davis. Drayton resigned his U.S. Army commission in 1836 and returned to South Carolina. Drayton was appointed as brigadier general in September 1861 and was assigned to the defenses of Port Royal, South Carolina. Major campaigns and battles include Thoroughfare Gap, Second Manassas, South Mountain, and Antietam. Drayton spent the remainder of the war in the Trans-Mississippi. After the war, Drayton lived in Georgia, North Carolina, and South Carolina. He died in Florence, South Carolina, in February 1891 and is buried in Charlotte, North Carolina. Sources: Boatner, Mark M. The Civil War Dictionary. New York: Vintage Books, 1988. Davis, William C., ed. The Confederate General. Vol. 2. National Historical Society, 1991.
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