John Echols was a general in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War.
16 Facts About John Echols
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John Echols joined the Virginia Military Institute in 1840 and resigned in the next year; being made an honorary graduate in 1843.
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John Echols received further education at Washington College and at Harvard College.
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John Echols's first wife was a sister of Senator Allen T Caperton.
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John Echols gathered a group of volunteers and was commissioned as a lieutenant colonel.
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On May 6,1861, General Robert E Lee ordered Lieutenant Colonel Echols to call out and muster in volunteer forces, not to exceed two regiments, to rendezvous these men at Staunton for Joseph E Johnston's fledgling army.
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John Echols was then assigned command of the 27th Virginia Infantry, leading the regiment in the fighting at the First Battle of Manassas under Stonewall Jackson.
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John Echols was promoted to colonel, serving in the Valley Campaign.
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John Echols was promoted to brigadier general on April 16,1862 during his convalescence.
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John Echols participated as a brigade commander in William W Loring's Kanawha Valley Campaign of 1862 and the occupation of the Kanawha Valley in September.
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John Echols promptly reoccupied Charleston, but was forced to retreat by a superior enemy force.
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John Echols resigned his departmental command in the fall of 1862, and, during the following summer, served upon the three-man court of inquiry held in Richmond to investigate the cause of the fall of Vicksburg.
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John Echols helped select the members of the Committee of Nine, a group of state leaders who worked to ensure that the state be readmitted into the Union and former Confederates could hold political office.
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John Echols rebuilt his fortune and became President of the Staunton National Valley Bank.
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John Echols lived in Kentucky the last ten years of his life as he managed the railroad's affairs.
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John Echols died at Oakdene the residence of his son, Edward Echols, at Staunton, where he is buried in Thornrose Cemetery.