- Joseph B. Kershaw
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name=Joseph Brevard Kershaw
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birth_place=Camden, South Carolina
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death_place=Camden, South Carolina |Joseph Brevard Kershaw (
January 5 ,1822 –April 13 ,1894 ) was a lawyer, judge, and a Confederate general in theAmerican Civil War .Kershaw was born at
Camden, South Carolina , admitted to the bar in 1843, and was a member of theSouth Carolina Senate from 1852 to 1856. At the start of the Civil War he commanded the 2nd South Carolina Volunteer Infantry regiment and took part in theFirst Battle of Bull Run . He was commissionedbrigadier general onFebruary 13 ,1862 , and commanded a brigade inRobert E. Lee 'sArmy of Northern Virginia during thePeninsula Campaign , at the close of which he continued with Lee and took part in theNorthern Virginia Campaign andMaryland Campaign . Towards the end of theBattle of Fredericksburg , he succeeded General T. R. R. Cobb, upon the latter's death, and repulsed the last two attacks made by the Federals on Marye's Heights. The next year he was engaged in theBattle of Gettysburg and then was transferred withJames Longstreet 's corps to the West, where he took part in the charge that destroyed the Federal right wing at Chickamauga. After the relief of Knoxville and Longstreet's return to Virginia, he commanded a division in the battles of the Wilderness, Spotsylvania Court House, and Cold Harbor, and was engaged in the Shenandoah campaign of 1864 againstPhilip Sheridan . After the evacuation of Richmond, his troops formed part ofRichard S. Ewell 's corps, which was captured at theBattle of Sayler's Creek ,April 6 ,1865 . At the close of the war he returned to South Carolina and in 1865 was chosen president of the State Senate. He was judge of the Circuit Court from 1877 to 1893. In 1894 he was appointedpostmaster of Camden, an office which he held until his death in the same year.References
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