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John Dimitry , A. M., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 10.1, Louisiana (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Biographical. (search)
natives of Scotland, first settled in Virginia, where Randall Gibson, grandfather of the general, was a revolutionary soldie founders of Jefferson college. On the maternal side General Gibson was descended from the Harts and Prestons of Kentucky. campaign. In the battles of the 6th and 7th of April Colonel Gibson, after the wounding of General Adams, commanded a brigure of the work done by it on that well-fought field. Colonel Gibson and his regiment participated in the Kentucky campaignport of the battle of Perryville, three times mentions Colonel Gibson in terms of the highest praise, and ends by saying, I will recommend Colonel Gibson, for skill and valor, to be brigadier-general. At Murfreesboro (Stone's river) he commanded ta. On the first day Gen. D. W. Adams was wounded, and Colonel Gibson again took command of the brigade. He commanded the ultant enemy in superior force. In the spring of 1865 General Gibson was placed in command of a small division at Spanish F