Robert E. Rodes
Confederate Army general
Died when: 35 years 174 days (425 months)Star Sign: Aries
Robert Emmett (or Emmet) Rodes (March 29, 1829 – September 19, 1864) was a Confederate general 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.
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