Robert emmet rodes biography

Confederate general during the American Civil War

Robert Emmett (or Emmet) Rodes^[1] (March 29, 1829 – September 19, 1864) was a Confederategeneral in the American Civil War, and the first of Robert E.

Lee's divisional commanders not trained at West Point. His division led Stonewall Jackson's devastating surprise attack at the Battle of Chancellorsville; Jackson, on his deathbed, recommended that Rodes be promoted to major general.

Rodes then served in the corps of Richard S. Ewell at the Battle of Gettysburg and in the Overland Campaign, before that corps was sent to the Shenandoah Valley under Jubal Early, where Rodes was killed at the Third Battle of Winchester.

Education, antebellum career

Rodes was born in Lynchburg, Virginia, and graduated from Virginia Military Institute in 1848.^[2] He taught at VMI as an assistant professor until 1851; he left when a promotion he wanted to full professor was given instead to Thomas J.

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