| Summary: | (In the photograph he has a colonel's insignia on his collar, but the button arrangement of a brigadier general.) Commissioned as a lieutenant colonel in the 27th Virginia Infantry in 1861. After promoting through the grades, Echols was promoted to brigadier general in April 1862. Major campaigns and battles include First Manassas, Kernstown (wounded), Kanawah Valley, Droop Mountain, New Market, and Cold Harbor. Because of poor health, Echols spent much of the war in administrative capacities such as commander of the Department of Southwestern Virginia and District of Southwestern Virginia. After the war, Echols returned to Virginia, where he practiced law and and engaged in various business ventures. He died in Staunton, Virginia, in May 1896 and is buried there. 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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