Colonel Henry Kyd Douglas (CSA)

http://www.civilwaralbum.com/misc8/elmwood1b.htm

http://www.nps.gov/resources/person.htm?id=205

http://www.nps.gov/anti/historyculture/douglas.htm

http://www.civilwar.org/education/history/biographies/henry-kyd-dou...

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=11759

Civil War Confederate Army Officer. He was General Stonewall Jackson's youngest staff member and personal aide. His memoirs were published after the Civil War - "I Rode With Stonewall" - by his nephew John Kyd Beckenbaugh.

From book review:

"Stonewall Jackson depended on him; General Lee complimented him; Union soldiers admired him; and women in Maryland, Virginia, and even Pennsylvania adored him: Henry Kyd Douglas. During and shortly after the Civil War Douglas set down his experiences of great men and great days. In resonant prose, he wrote simply and intimately, covering the full emotional spectrum of a soldier's life. Here is one of the finest and most remarkable stories to come out of any war, written wholly firsthand from notes and diaries made on the battlefield."

He lived at Ferry Hill Place across the Potomac River from Shepherdstown, WV.

He enlisted in the Confederate Army as a private, rose to Captain, and later Colonel. He was Assistant Inspector General and Assistant Adjutant General on Jackson's staff. After Jackson's death, he was Chief of Staff and Assistant Adjutant General to five Confederate Generals. He was commander of the Light Brigade at Appomattox. His troops were the last to stack arms upon surrender. He was wounded six times and captured twice, including at the Battle of Gettysburg.

Following the war, he made headlines when he flaunted his Confederate uniform in the streets of Shepherdstown, an act which Federal authorities deemed “a badge of treason and rebellion, intended and designed to encourage and incite rebellion.” Ultimately, this act of defiance landed him in a Washington, D.C., jail cell, and consequently led him to serve as a witness in the infamous trial of the Lincoln conspirators.

He practiced law in Winchester, VA after the war, and later moved his practice to Hagerstown, Maryland.

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Bachelor; never married
Between 1860 and 1903
Occupation Lawyer; also practiced in Winchester, Virginia right after Civil War ended
Between 1860 and 1903

 Hagerstown, Washington County, Maryland, USA

Military Service 2nd Regiment, Virginia Infantry, Company B; Second Infantry; Aide to General Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson in Confederate Army during Civil War
Between 1861 and 1865

 Virginia, USA

"I was compelled to go through a field in the rear of Dunker Church, over which, to and fro, the pendulum of battle had swung several times that day. It was a dreadful scene, a veritable field of blood. The dead and dying lay as thick over it as harvest sheaves. The pitiable cries for water and appeals for help were much more horrible to listen to than the deadliest sounds of battle. Silent were the dead, and motionless. But here and there were raised stiffened arms; heads made a last effort to lift themselves from the ground; prayers were mingled with oaths, the oaths of delirium; men were wriggling over the earth; and midnight hid all distinction between the blue and the grey. My horse trembled under me in terror, looking down at the ground, sniffing the scent of blood, stepping falteringly as a horse will over or by the side of human flesh; afraid to stand still, hesitating to go on, his animal instinct shuddering at this cruel human mystery. Once his foot slid into a little shallow filled with blood and spurted a little stream on his legs and my boots. I had had a surfeit of blood that day and I couldn’t stand this. I dismounted and giving the reins to my courier I started on foot into the wood of Dunker Church… The opposing lines of battle, resting on their arms, were lying almost within a stone’s throw, one of the other.”
-Lt Henry Kyd Douglas, CSA
September 18, 1862