22 Facts About Lloyd Tilghman

Lloyd Tilghman was a Confederate general in the American Civil War.

The location of Fort Henry on the Tennessee was vulnerable to flooding, but Tilghman was slow to spot this, and his surrender of the fort to US Grant in February 1862 was regarded as a disgrace.

Tilghman was born in "Rich Neck Manor", Claiborne, Maryland to James Tilghman who was the great-grandson of Matthew Tilghman, and Ann C Shoemaker Tilghman.

Lloyd Tilghman attended the United States Military Academy and graduated near the bottom of his class in 1836.

Lloyd Tilghman was commissioned a brevet second lieutenant in the 1st US Dragoons, but resigned his commission after three months.

Lloyd Tilghman worked as a construction engineer on a number of railroads in the South and in Panama, except for a period in which he returned to the Army as a captain in the Maryland and Washington, DC Volunteer Artillery.

Lloyd Tilghman was commissioned colonel of the 3rd Kentucky Infantry on July 5,1861, shortly after the start of the American Civil War.

The original sites for Forts Henry and Donelson were selected by another general, Daniel S Donelson, but Tilghman was then placed in command and ordered to construct them.

The geographic placement of Fort Henry was extremely poor, sited on a floodplain of the Tennessee River, but Lloyd Tilghman did not object to its location until it was too late.

Lloyd Tilghman did manage to do a more creditable job on the construction of Fort Donelson, which was sited on dry ground, commanding the river.

Ulysses S Grant and gunboats under Flag Officer Andrew H Foote attacked Fort Henry and Tilghman was forced to surrender.

Lloyd Tilghman was initially interred in the Soldiers Rest section of Vicksburg's Cedar Hill Cemetery.

Lloyd Tilghman's body was moved in 1902 to Woodlawn Cemetery, The Bronx, where he was buried beside his wife who had moved to the city.

Lloyd Tilghman came to our position, in an open field, on foot.

Lloyd Tilghman got up from the log and went to one of our guns, a 12-pound Napoleon, Corporal Tommie Johnson, gunner, and remarked to him, I think you are shooting rather too high, and sighted the gun himself.

Lloyd Tilghman returned to a little knoll within a few feet of the log on which I was still sitting and was standing erect, his field glasses to his eyes, watching for the effect of the shot from our gun when he received the fatal wound not from a splinter from a shell but from a solid shot.

Lloyd Tilghman remarked, 'They are trying to spoil my new uniform.

Lloyd Tilghman was carried to Mrs Brien's house at night by torchlight.

Lloyd Tilghman made a speech at the Bowman House [hotel] and told us how cruelly he had been treated in prison.

Lloyd Tilghman dismounted from his horse and gave some directions about sighting the gun.

Lloyd Tilghman's death occurred, of course, very soon, and his remains were carried to the rear.

On May 19,1926, a statue of Lloyd Tilghman was dedicated at the Vicksburg National Historical Park.