CDV: GENERAL JESSE LEE RENO ~ KILLED AT SOUTH MOUNTAIN
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*CDV: GENERAL JESSE LEE RENO ~ K.I.A. at BATTLE OF SOUTH MOUNTAIN. Rare Carte-de-Visite Photograph, by J.E. McClees, Philadelphia. A classic bust-length profile in uniform. Union general Jesse Lee Reno [1823-1862] was killed at the Battle of South Mountain on September 14, 1862. Graduating from the U.S. Military Academy in 1846 [eighth in his class of 59 cadets], he was close friends while t with Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson. During the Mexican War [1847], he commanded an artillery battery under General Winfield Scott, and was brevetted twice during the war, once for bravery at the Battle for Mexico City and the Battle of Chapultepec, w he was seriously wounded while commanding a howitzer battery. In 1857, Reno was assigned to go with Brigadier General Albert Sidney Johnston as chief of ordnance on a two-year expedition to the Utah Territory. While in command of the Mount Vernon Arsenal in Alabama, he was forced to surrender the arsenal on January 4, 1861 to Southern troops from Alabama , a bloodless transfer ordered by the Governor of Alabama, a week before the state seceded from the Union. In the fall of 1861, he was appointed brigadier general of volunteers. In Virginia, he took command of the 2nd Brigade, IX Corps, and soon had organized five regiments. The 2nd Brigade fought in Major General Ambrose Burnside's North Carolina
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