page_title: Edward A. Perry
section_title: American Civil War
hierarchical_section_title: Edward A. Perry / American Civil War
caption_attribution_description: English: Engraved portrait of General Edward Aylsworth Perry (March 15, 1831 – October 15, 1889). Born in Massachusetts, he was a lawyer, private, captain, colonel and general who commanded Florida Brigade in Lee's Army of Northern Virginia. Later he served as the 14th governor of Florida.
context_page_description: Edward Aylesworth Perry was a general under Robert E. Lee during the American Civil War and the 14th Governor of Florida.
context_section_description: During the Civil War, Perry fought with distinction for the Confederacy, rising from the rank of private to brigadier general. In May 1861, he enlisted in the "Pensacola Rifle Rangers", which was later designated Company A of the 2nd Florida Infantry, and was elected as its captain. A year later, he was elected colonel of the regiment.
  In June 1862, he was wounded during the fight at Glendale during the Peninsula Campaign and furloughed. On August 28, 1862, Perry was appointed as a brigadier general in the Provisional Army of the Confederacy and returned to active duty the following year. He led an all-Florida brigade in the Army of Northern Virginia at the Battle of Chancellorsville, but was stricken with typhoid fever and missed the Gettysburg Campaign, where Col. David Lang commanded Perry's Brigade.
  Perry returned to the Army of Northern Virginia to command his brigade for the Bristoe Campaign in the fall of 1863. However, he was severely wounded in the fighting at the Wilderness on May 6, 1864. He briefly returned to the trenches during the Siege of Petersburg, but had not recovered sufficiently for active duty. Hence, he was sent to Alabama for the duration of the war, serving on reserve duty in the Confederate Invalid Corps.
caption: General E.A. Perry[4]
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