Garnett, Robert S. – Civil War Profiles

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Robert S. Garnett – First General Killed in the Civil War

July 13, 2013 Mathew W. Lively 0

Forty-one-year-old Robert Selden Garnett was a newly minted brigadier general in the Confederate army when he was sent to western Virginia in June 1861 to command the Department of Northwestern Virginia. Often confused with his […]