He was promoted to brigadier general on November 1,1862, and assumed command of the 2nd Brigade in William Dorsey Pender's Division of Hill's Third Corps of the Army of Northern Virginia the following May, during the beginning of the Gettysburg Campaign.
He was promoted to brigadier general on November 1,1862. He was assumed command of the 2nd Brigade in William Dorsey Pender's Division of Hill's Third Corps of the Army of Northern Virginia the following May. This was during the beginning of the Gettysburg Campaign.