Samuel McGowan
Military Person
1819 – 1897
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Who was Samuel McGowan?
Samuel McGowan was a general from South Carolina in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. He commanded a brigade in A.P. Hill's famous "Light Division" and was wounded several times. Ezra Warner's book, Generals in Gray, claims that "McGowan's career and reputation were not excelled by any other brigade commander in the Army of Northern Virginia."
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- Born
- Oct 19, 1819
Laurens County - Nationality
- United States of America
- Confederate States of America
- Education
- University of South Carolina
- Lived in
- South Carolina
- Died
- Aug 9, 1897
Abbeville
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on July 23, 2013
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