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Civil War Soldiers - Gordon
| Gordon, George H., brigadier-general,
U.S. Army, was born in Charlestown, Mass., July 19, 1824, and was
graduated at the United States military academy in 1846. In the
Mexican war he took part in the siege of Vera Cruz, was wounded at
Cerro Gordo and brevetted 1st lieutenant for bravery there, and
engaged also in the battles of Contreras and Chapultepec and the
assault on and capture of the City of Mexico. On Dec. 21, 1847, he was
attacked near San Juan bridge by two guerrillas, defended himself in a
hand-to-hand fight and was severely wounded. He was promoted 1st
lieutenant Jan. 8, 1848, was on sick leave for a year, then on duty at
the cavalry school for practice at Carlisle, Pa., and subsequently was
on frontier duty in Washington territory and on the coast survey, and
in 1854 resigned to study law at the Harvard law school, being
admitted to the bar in 1857, and practicing then in Boston until the
outbreak of the Civil war. He became colonel of the 2nd Mass.
regiment, May 24, 1861, was military governor of Harper's Ferry,
commanded a brigade under Gen. Banks, and for his conduct in the
retreat from Strasburg to Williamsport was made brigadier-general of
volunteers, June 9, 1862. He engaged with his brigade at Cedar
mountain, Groveton and Antietam, was then on guard duty at Harper's
Ferry, engaged in the operations under Gillmore against Charleston,
1863-64, and after that had command of the Department of Florida; kept
open the communications with Little Rock, Ark., by the White river,
and took part in the operations against Mobile. He was in command of
the eastern district of the Department of Virginia in 1864-65, was
brevetted major-general of volunteers April 9, 1865, and at the close
of the war returned to Boston, becoming collector of internal revenue
in 1866. Gen. Gordon died at Framingham, Mass., Aug. 30, 1886. Source: The Union Army: A History of Military Affairs in the Loyal
States 1861-1865, Volume 8 Biographical, 1908
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GORDON, JAMES B., North Carolina.
Major, Ninth North Carolina Volunteers (cavalry), May 8, 1861.
Lieutenant colonel, Ninth North Carolina Cavalry, March 1, 1862.
Brigadier general, P. A. C. S., September 5, 1863.
Major general, P. A. C. S. (temporary rank), May 14, 1864.
Killed at Yellow Tavern, Virginia, May 11, 1864.
Commands.
Brigade composed of the First, Second, Third, Fourth and Fifth North
Carolina Regiments Cavalry, W. H. F. Lee's Division, Army of Northern
Virginia.
Source: Military Records of General Officers of the Confederate
States of America, by Charles B. Hall, 1898
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GORDON, JOHN B., Georgia.
Lieutenant colonel, Sixth Alabama Infantry, December 26, 1861.
Colonel, Sixth Alabama Infantry, April 28, 1862.
Brigadier general, P. A. C. S., November 1, 1862.
Brigadier general, P. A. C. S., May 7, 1863.
Major general, P. A. C. S., May 14, 1864.
Lieutenant general, P. A. C. S., , 1865.
Commands.
Brigade composed of the Thirteenth, Twenty-sixth, Thirty-first,
Thirty-eighth, Sixtieth and Sixty-first Georgia Regiments Infantry
(originally Lawton's Brigade), and the Sixth and Twelfth Battalions of
Georgia Infantry, Early's Division, Army of Northern Virginia.
Division composed of the brigades of Evans, Terry and York, Army of
Northern Virginia. October 31, 1864, commanding a division in the Army
of Valley District. Commanding Second Corps, Army of Northern
Virginia, January 31, 1865. Commanding left wing, Army of Northern
Virginia, to the surrender of General Lee, April, 1865.
Source: Military Records of General Officers of the Confederate
States of America, by Charles B. Hall, 1898
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