Breathed, James

"The hardest artillery fighter the world has produced..." (Robert E. Lee)
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His battery shelled the College on July 1, 1863
Full name
James Breathed
Place of Birth
Morgan County, VA
Burial Place
Hancock, MD
Birth Date Certainty
Exact
Death Date Certainty
Exact
Gender
Male
Race
White
Sectional choice
South
Origins
Slave State
Family
John W. Breathed (father), Ann MacGill Williams Breathed (mother) 
Education
Other
Other Education
St. James College (MD)
Occupation
Military
Doctor, Dentist or Nurse
Military
Confederate Army
Date Event
Shells from General J.E.B. Stuart's horse artillery rain down on Carlisle in an evening bombardment
Stuart's cavalrymen destroy the U.S. Army's Cavalry School at Carlisle Barracks
Gettysburg Campaign
Date Title
Recollection by C. Stuart Patterson of the Union defense of Carlisle, July 1, 1863
Letter from Theodore S. Garnett to George W. Wingate, May 31, 1892 on the Shelling of Carlisle, July 1, 1863
Charles P. Noyes, 22nd New York, diary entry on opening of bombardment at Carlisle, July 1, 1863
- Recollection in 1864 of the Shelling of Carlisle, July 1, 1863 by George Wood Wingate
How to Cite This Page: "Breathed, James," House Divided: The Civil War Research Engine at Dickinson College, https://hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu/index.php/node/40133.