Trimble, Isaac Ridgeway

Life Span
to
    Full name
    Isaac Ridgeway Trimble
    Place of Birth
    Birth Date Certainty
    Exact
    Death Date Certainty
    Exact
    Gender
    Male
    Race
    White
    Sectional choice
    South
    Origins
    Slave State
    No. of Spouses
    2
    No. of Children
    2
    Family
    John Trimble (father), David Trimble (uncle), Maria Cattell Presstman (first wife), Ann Ferguson Presstman (second wife, sister of first wife)
    Education
    West Point (US Military Academy)
    Occupation
    Military
    Businessman
    Other
    Other Occupation
    Civil Engineer
    Military
    US military (Pre-Civil War)
    Confederate Army

    Isaac Trimble (American National Biography)

    Scholarship
    [Isaac] Trimble was one of the oldest combat officers of the Civil War. Despite his age, he had a distinguished record, noted for personal bravery, combativeness, and skill. A southerner by birth, he never questioned the rightness of the Confederate cause and devoted himself to it. He was perhaps Maryland's finest soldier in the conflict.
    Jeffry D. Wert, "Trimble, Isaac Ridgeway," American National Biography Online, February 2000, http://www.anb.org/articles/05/05-00792.html.
    How to Cite This Page: "Trimble, Isaac Ridgeway," House Divided: The Civil War Research Engine at Dickinson College, https://hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu/node/6742.