Birkett D. Fry
Birkett Davenport Fry was an adventurer, soldier, lawyer, cotton manufacturer, and a Confederate brigadier general in the American Civil War. A survivor of four battle wounds, he commanded one of the lead brigades during Picketts Charge at the Battle of Gettysburg.
Fry was born in Kanawha County, Virginia on June 24, 1822. He received his education at Virginia Military Institute in Lexington, and attended the United States Military Academy, but did not graduate with the Class of 1846, having failed mathematics and been subsequently dismissed. He then returned to his native Virginia to study law. He resumed his interest in the military with the outbreak of the MexicanAmerican War, serving as a first lieutenant of voltigeurs .
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