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Arthur Middleton Manigault

Residence was not listed; 
Enlisted on 6/1/1861 as a Colonel.

On 6/1/1861 he was commissioned into Field & Staff SC 10th Infantry 
He was discharged for promotion on 4/26/1863
 (Estimated date of enlistment)

On 4/26/1863 he was commissioned into CS Gen Staff 
(date and method of discharge not given)


He was listed as:
* Wounded 11/30/1864 Franklin, TN


Promotions:
* Brig-Gen 4/26/1863 


Other Information:
born 10/26/1824 in Charleston, SC
died 8/17/1886 in South Island, SC

Sources used by Historical Data Systems, Inc.:

 - Index to Compiled Confederate Military Service Records
 - Field Officers, Regiments & Battalions of CS Army
 - Confederate Military History
 - Official Records of the War of Rebellion
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Brigadier-General Arthur Middleton Manigault



Brigadier-General Arthur Middleton Manigault was born at 
Charleston in 1824.  He was a great-grandson of Gabriel 
Manigault, a native of Charleston, and a famous merchant who 
was treasurer of the province in 1738; after the declaration 
of independence advanced $220,000 from his private fortune for 
war purposes, and in 1779, with his grandson Joseph, served as 
a private soldier in the defense of Charleston.

General Manigault entered business life at Charleston in 
youth.  In 1846 he went to the Mexican war as first lieutenant 
of a company of the Palmetto regiment, and served in the army 
of General Scott from Vera Cruz to the City of Mexico.  
Returning to Charleston he was in the commission business 
until 1856, and then was engaged in rice planting until the 
beginning of the Confederate war, when he raised a company of 
volunteers.

He served as inspector-general on the staff of General 
Beauregard during the period including the reduction of Fort 
Sumter, after which he was elected colonel of the Tenth South 
Carolina regiment.  Under Gen. R. E. Lee he commanded the 
First military district of South Carolina, with headquarters 
at Georgetown.

After the battle of Shiloh he and his regiment were 
transferred to the army in Mississippi under General Bragg, 
forming part of the brigade composed of the Tenth and 
Nineteenth South Carolina and three Alabama regiments, 
commanded by General Withers until the latter was given 
division command, afterward by Patton Anderson and later by 
Colonel Manigault.

He was in brigade command from the summer of 1862, and 
participated in the occupation of Corinth during the siege, 
and the operations of the army in Tennessee and Kentucky.  In 
April, 1863, he was promoted to brigadier-general.

At the battle of Stone's River his brigade under his gallant 
leadership was distinguished in the assaults upon the Federal 
line, and at Chickamauga again was conspicuous in the attacks 
upon the position held by George H. Thomas.  In both these 
battles the brigade suffered severely in the loss of officers 
and men, but the remnant fought through the Atlanta campaign 
of 1864 among the bravest of the heroes of that memorable 
struggle, from Dalton to Ezra church.

He subsequently participated in the operations under General 
Hood, until he fell severely wounded in the disastrous battle 
of Franklin, Tenn.

After the conclusion of hostilities he engaged in rice 
planting in South Carolina.  In 1880 he was elected adjutant-
general of the State, was continued in this office, and was 
about to be re-elected when he died from the effects of his 
wound received at Franklin, August 16, 1886.

Source:  Confederate Military History, vol. VI, p. 414


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