Gil R.
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Here’s the Conner bio. I rewrote the beginning a little, but otherwise it’s pretty much the same. I did add the info you provided me about his non-promotion promotion to major general.
Brig. Gen. James Conner (b. 1829, d. 1883). On September 1, 1829, Conner was born in Charleston, South Carolina. Graduating from South Carolina College in 1849, he passed the bar examine and began to practice law in 1852. Conner became a U.S. District Attorney in 1856, an office he held until resigning in 1860 just before South Carolina’s secession. He was appointed Confederate States Attorney, but chose the military instead. Beginning his military career as Captain of the Montgomery Guards, Conner was present in Charleston during the bombardment of Fort Sumter. In May 1861, he became Captain of Company A, Washington Light Infantry, Hampton’s Legion. On the day of the Battle of First Manassas, this famous regiment arrived by train and fought to delay the Union advance after the South’s withdrawal from Matthews Hill, and later in the day charged Capt. James B. Ricketts’ Battery on Henry Hill. For his performance in the battle, Conner was promoted to major. In 1862, he participated in the battles of Yorktown, New Stones Point, West Point, Seven Pines, and was injured in the leg during the early fighting of the Seven Days’ Battles. In June, Conner became Colonel of the 22nd North Carolina Infantry Regiment. During his recovery, he was appointed as one of the military court judges in the II Corps. Having regained his health, Conner fought at Chancellorsville in May 1863. At the Battle of Gettysburg, his regiment served in Brig. Gen. Alfred M. Scales’ brigade in Maj. Gen. William D. Pender’s Division of III Corps, taking part in the fighting on Seminary Ridge and in Pickett’s Charge. Before the Battle of Petersburg, Conner was appointed a brigadier general on June 1, 1864 and then later given command of Maj. Gen. Joseph B. Kershaw’s brigade, which was mainly comprised of fellow South Carolinians. He commanded this brigade in the battles of Petersburg, Jerusalem Plank Road and Reams’ Station. In August 1864, Conner went to the Shenandoah Valley when Kershaw’s Division was sent to support Maj. Gen. Jubal A. Early’s Shenandoah Valley Campaign. During the Battle of Cedar Creek on October 19, 1864, Conner was wounded in the same leg that he had injured during the Seven Days’ Battles of 1862, resulting in its amputation. As the war was coming to a close, Conner was promoted to major general, but the paperwork was never completed. After the war, Conner began practicing law again in South Carolina. In 1876, he was elected attorney general for South Carolina on a ticket with Confederate Gen. Wade Hampton, who became governor. On June 26, 1883, Conner died in Richmond, and was buried in the Magnolia Cemetery in Charleston. (Bio by Andrew Thayer)
Leadership: 4
Tactical: 4
Initiative: 2
Command: 3
Cavalry:
Teaches: Blasted (15)
Start date: 82
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