Patrick T. Moore


Patrick Theodore Moore was a Confederate States Army brigadier general during the American Civil War. As colonel leading the 1st Virginia Infantry Regiment, he was severely wounded at the Battle of Blackburns Ford on July 18, 1861 and was incapacitated for further field service. Thereafter, he served as an aidedecamp first to General Joseph E. Johnston and then to Lieutenant General James Longstreet, a judge advocate general on court martial duty and a brigade commander of Virginia Reserves in the Department of Richmond. He was a merchant and Virginia militia officer before the war and an insurance agent after the war.

Patrick T. Moore was born on September 22, 1821 in Galway, Ireland. His family moved to Canada in 1835, then to Massachusetts, where his father was British consul. Moore moved to Virginia in 1850 where he worked as a merchant and was a captain in the Virginia militia. By 1860 he was resident in Richmonds Ward 2, working as a merchant. Along with his wife and four children, he owned five female slaves.

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