James Johnston Pettigrew

Name PETTIGREW, James Johnston
Born July 4 1828, Tyrell Cty NC
Died July 17 1863, nr 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).
Notes Wrote a book.
Further reading
Bond, W R Pickett or Pettigrew? : an historical essay Gaithersburg MD, Butternut Press 1984
Wilson, Clyde N Carolina cavalier : life and mind of James Johnston Pettigrew Athens, University of Georgia Press 1990