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Caption: Lieutenant General Richard Ewell
Additional Description: Richard Ewell graduated from West Point in 1840. Most of his twenty years of service was on the western frontier in the U.S. Dragoons. Ewell gained many accolades during early wartime service under General Jackson in the Shenandoah Valley, but was wounded at Second Manassas, losing a leg. After his recovery, he was named a corps commander in the reorganized Army of Northern Virgina. Some have speculated the loss of his leg greatly affected Ewell's performance. Indeed he was reassigned from a field corps to command of the Richmond defenses in mid-1864. Ewell would command the Richmond garrison, on paper a corps, during the retreat in 1865, and surrendered at Saylor's Creek.

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Submitted: January 17, 2009, by Craig Swain of Leesburg, Virginia.
Database Locator Identification Number: p50273
File Size: 0.162 Megabytes

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