dbc:People_of_Maryland_in_the_American_Civil_War.dbc:People_from_Shepherdstown,_West_Virginia.dbr:Lutheran_Theological_Seminary_at_Gettysburg.dbr:Official_Records_of_the_War_of_the_Rebellion.dbr:A_History_of_the_Adjutants_General_of_Maryland.wiki-commons:Special:FilePath/Major_Henry_Kyd_Douglas,_CSA.jpg?width=300.Today Douglas is foremost known for his wartime memoir, I rode with Stonewall, first published in 1940. After the war he returned to his civilian occupation as a lawyer, got involved in state politics, later as a Gold Democrats, and became an officer in the Maryland National Guard, eventually holding the appointment as Adjutant General. At the end of the war, he commanded a brigade at the last battle of the war. Severely wounded on the third day of the battle of Gettysburg, he became a prisoner of war for almost ten months. He participated in most of the battles of the Second Corps, Army of Northern Virginia serving on the staffs of Stonewall Jackson and his successors.
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