born Nov. 3, 1816, Franklin county, Va., U.S.
died March 2, 1894, Lynchburg, Va.
U.S. and Confederate military leader.
He graduated from West Point and served in the second of the Seminole Wars and the Mexican War . He opposed secession but supported his home state of Virginia when it joined the Confederacy. He fought at the Shenandoah Valley and threatened Washington, D.C., but was defeated by Union troops under {{link=Sheridan, Philip Henry">Philip Sheridan . Relieved of his command, he fled to Mexico and then Canada, returning to Virginia in 1869.