Trimble, Isaac Ridgeway

Life Span
to
Full name
Isaac Ridgeway Trimble
Place of Birth
Culpeper County, VA
Burial Place
Green Mount Cemetery, Baltimore, MD
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.
Date Event
Stonewall Jackson wins a major victory at Winchester and drives Union forces back into Maryland
- In Carlisle, Pennsylvania, Confederate troops occupy a town familiar to some of their officers
Lee's attack on the Union center ends with the failure of Pickett's Charge
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.