Captain Horace Porter Cannon (CSA)

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Horace Porter Cannon

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Birthplace: Rabun County, Georgia, United States
Death: April 29, 1864 (21-22)
Gordonsville, Orange County, Virginia, United States (killed in a skirmish at Gordonsville )
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Son of Captain Horace Wiley Cannon, CSA and Nancy Cannon
Brother of Captain Jabel Van Buren Cannon (CSA); Henry Kelly Cannon; Russell Ellis Cannon and Walter Jacob Cannon

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About Captain Horace Porter Cannon (CSA)

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Confederate soldier--Company E, 24th Georgia Regiment (Rabun Gap Riflemen). Enlisted as a Private on August 24, 1864 and promoted to Captain on October 27, 1862. Killed in Gordonsville, Virginia on April 29, 1864. This was the same day that General Robert E. Lee visited Gordonsville to review General Longstreet's 1st Corps in the lead up to the Battle of the Wilderness (5-6 May 1864).

Gordonsville was strategically important during the Civil War, due to its location on the Virginia Central Railroad.

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Captain Horace Porter Cannon (CSA)'s Timeline

1842
1842
Birth of Captain Horace Porter Cannon (CSA)
Rabun County, Georgia, United States
1864
April 29, 1864
Age 22
Death of Captain Horace Porter Cannon (CSA)
Gordonsville, Orange County, Virginia, United States
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