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D. H. Hill, Jr., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 4, North Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Biographical. (search)
at a special effort be made to secure the exchange of the gallant officer. After returning to the army he was promoted brigadier-general in August, 1864, and assigned to the command of his old brigade, now mustering about 800 men. He participated in the Shenandoah campaign under Early, until he fell, nobly doing his duty, in the fatal battle of Winchester, September 19, 1864. Brigadier-General James B. Gordon Brigadier-General James B. Gordon was born November 2, 1822, at Wilkesboro, Wilkes county, N. C., where his ancestors had made their home for four generations since the coming of John George Gordon from Scotland about the year 1724. In childhood he attended the school of Peter S. Ney, in Iredell county, afterward studied at Emory and Henry college, Va., and then engaged in mercantile business at his native town. He was a leader in local politics and sat in the legislature in 1850. At the first organization of troops in 1861 he became a lieutenant in the Wilkes county gu