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Civil War Soldiers - Trimble
TRIMBLE, ISAAC R., Maryland.
Brigadier general, P. A. C. S., August 9, 1861.
Major general, P. A. C. S., January 17, 1863.
Died at Baltimore, Maryland, January 2, 1888.
Commands.
Commanding brigade at Evansport, on Potomac River, November 13, 1861.
Afterward commanding brigade composed of the Twenty-first Georgia,
Twenty-first North Carolina, and Sixteenth Mississippi Regiments
Infantry, and Courtney's Virginia Battery of Light Artillery,
Longstreet's Corps, Army of Northern Virginia. At battle of
Fredericksburg, commanding brigade composed of the Twelfth and
Twenty-first Georgia, the Fifteenth Alabama, and Twenty-first North
Carolina Regiments Infantry, Ewell's Division, Jackson's Corps, Army
of Northern Virginia. Commanding T. J. Jackson's Old Division, Second
Corps, Army of Northern Virginia. At battle of Chancellorsville,
division composed of the brigades of Colston, Paxton, Nichols, and
Jones. At Gettysburg commanded a division in A. P. Hill's Third Corps,
Army of Northern Virginia, where he was seriously wounded, losing his
left foot.
Trimble, Isaac Ridgeway, born in Virginia; appointed from Kentucky
cadet United States Military Academy, November 23, 1818; graduated
seventeenth in a class of forty.
Brevet second lieutenant Third Artillery, July 1, 1822.
Second lieutenant, First Artillery, July 1, 1822.
Resigned May 31, 1832.
Source: Military Records of General Officers of the Confederate
States of America, by Charles B. Hall, 1898
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