Brigadier-General George Strong commanded the lead brigade assaulting the Confederate installations on Morris Island in South Carolina at dusk on July 18, 1863.  His command, which included the African-American 54th Massachusetts, was thrown back with heavy losses and Strong was wounded by shellfire.  His wounds became infected at the hospital in Beaufort, South Carolina, and he died twelve days after the battle.  He was promoted posthomously to Major-General and buried in Brooklyn, New York. He was thirty years old.  (By John Osborne)

Most of the Army of Northern Virginia had finally been able to retreat across the flooded Potomac the night before, but elements of General Kilpatrick's Union cavalry closed on the last of the rearguard holding the crossing near Falling Waters, Maryland.  General George Custer's brigade overan the Confederates, captured more than 500 prisoners, and mortally wounded Confederate General J.J. Pettigrew, a survivor of Pickett's Charge ten days before.  Pettigrew died near Bunker Hill, West Virginia three days later.  (By John Osborne)