PETTIGREW, James Johnston

Confederate

Born: July 4 1828, Tyrell Cty NC

Died: July 17 1863, near Bunker Hill VA

Pre-War Profession: Assistant professor, lawyer, politician, Col. in South Carolina state militia.

War Service: 1861 served with militia at Fort Sumter, joined Hampton Legion, Col. of 12th South Carolina, February 1862 Brig. Gen., commanded Pettigrew's Bde/G W Smith's Divn in Peninsula campaign, Seven Pines (w,c), exchanged after two months, service in Petersburg and North Carolina, brigade commanded Pettigrew's Bde/Heth's Divn at Gettysburg (w), Falling Waters (mw).

Post War: Pettigrew was directing his soldiers when he was shot by a Union cavalryman from the Michigan Brigade at close range, the bullet striking him in the abdomen. He was immediately carried to the rear and across the Potomac, having refused to be left in federal hands. He died three days later at Edgewood Manor plantation near Bunker Hill, West Virginia, likely due to peritonitis.