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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)
andsome man, nearly six and a half feet in height, erect and stately in bearing, and gentle as well as brave. He was faithfully devoted to the South, and the rank he attained, considering his natural aversion to selfaggran-dizement, does not adequately measure the value of his services. Brigadier-General William G. Lewis Brigadier-General William G. Lewis, of North Carolina, began his service in the Confederate army as third lieutenant of Company A. First North Carolina infantry, April 21 , 1861. By the close of the year he had shown such efficiency as an officer that we find him on January 17, 1862, major of the Thirty-third North Carolina, and before the active campaign of 1862 had fairly begun, lieutenant-colonel of the Forty-third North Carolina infantry, April 25, 1862. In the Gettysburg campaign this regiment was in the brigade of Gen. Junius Daniel, of Rodes' division and Ewell's corps. On June 10, 1863, Ewell's corps left Brandy Station, and two days later reached C