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[242] Born at Richmond, Virginia, 1825; died, 1875. Graduated at West Point, 1846; served well in Mexican War and afterwards on Puget Sound, where he resisted encroachments of the British; entered Confederate service in 1861; brigadier general, 1862; wounded at Gaines’s Mill; commanded charge at Gettysburg; in 1864 defended Petersburg skillfully against Butler; engaged in the insurance business until his death.