GORDON, JOHN BROWN

(18321904), a Confederate soldier; 6. in Upson County, Ga. After graduating from the University of Georgia, in 1852, he studied law and engineering. ‘When the Civil War broke out he was engaged in an engineering project in the Racoon Mis., and immediately organized a company of miners, which was called the ‘Racoon Roughs,’ with which company he entered the war as captain. At the Battle of Seven Pines he was a colonel, but on account of his general being wounded, he a umed command of his brigade leading it in the fighting so skillfully that he was made a brigadier-general. At the Battle of Gettysburg he gained the Confederates the initial victory by striking the Federal right wing and driving it through the village in disorder. As major-general he had command of nearly half of Lee’s army at Appomattox, at which battle he showed his usual high qualities as a soldier. After the war he was twice Governor of Georgia, and served two terms in the U. S. Senate. He wrote Reminiscences, 1905.