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The Daily Dispatch: June 7, 1862., [Electronic resource] 5 1 Browse Search
D. H. Hill, Jr., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 4, North Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 2 0 Browse Search
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D. H. Hill, Jr., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 4, North Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Biographical. (search)
His promise and usefulness as an officer were only equaled by the purity and excellence of his private life. Gen. A. P. Hill wrote: No man fell during this bloody battle of Gettysburg more regretted than he, nor around whose youthful brow were clustered brighter rays of glory. Brigadier-General James Johnston Pettigrew Brigadier-General James Johnston Pettigrew was born on the shores of Lake Scuppernong, in Tyrrell county, N. C., July 4, 1828, at Bonarva, the home of his father, Ebenezer Pettigrew, representative in Congress. The family was founded in America by James, youngest son of James Pettigrew, an officer of King William's army, rewarded by a grant of land for gallantry at the battle of the Boyne. Charles, son of the founder, was chosen the first bishop of North Carolina. Young Pettigrew was graduated at the State university in 1847, with such distinction that President Polk, who attended the commencement, accompanied by Commodore Maury, offered the young student one o
The Daily Dispatch: June 7, 1862., [Electronic resource], From New Orleans. (search)
gallant spirit has sealed in martyrdom on the field devotion to our cause than General J. Johnston Petil grew. James Johnston Pettigrew was a son of Hon. Ebenezer Pettigrew, of Tyrrell county, North Carolina, a of our fellow-citizen, James L Pettigrew, and was born in 1861. He entered the old and cherished nursery of hiPettigrew, and was born in 1861. He entered the old and cherished nursery of his native State after full academical preparation, and graduated with distinguished honors from the University of North Carolina in 1843. President Polk, a native of North Carolina, and an alumnus of this University, attended this Commencement with members of his Cabinet and other distinguished citizens. The orator of the Literary ly and deeply impressed with the gifts and acquirements of the young graduate that he engaged him for the Mathematical Chair of the Observatory in Washington. Mr. Pettigrew remained in Washington until 1848, when he removed to Charleston, and completed, under the tuition of his distinguished relative and fatherly friend, J. L. Pau