Garnett resigned his commission in 1861 and became a major in the Regular Confederate Army.
He was one of the few West Pointers of that era who did not see action in the Mexican-American War. Army in Florida and other posts throughout the South and West. He graduated from West Point in 1841 and served the next 20 years with the U. Richard Brooke Garnett was forty-five years old in the spring of 1863, born Novemin Essex County, Virginia. Richard Garnett’s life and Confederate military service offers the opportunity to examine the concept of fallen leader from several perspectives. In less than two months after following Jackson’s casket, he would be dead on the field of Gettysburg. Thirteen months earlier Jackson had court-martialed him. One of the Confederate officers serving as pallbearer at Stonewall’s funeral ranked as a fallen leader. Jackson was drawn through the streets to Capitol Square where the general’s remains were carried into the building to lie in state. The casket of Lieutenant General Thomas J.
The bells tolled, the military bands played dirges, and uniforms and civilian attire displayed mourning badges.
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