Edward Tiffin Harrison Warren Edward Tiffin Harrison Warren ( June 19 , 1829 – May 5 , 1864 ) commanded a Virginia infantry regiment and occasionally held interim brigade command in the Army of Northern Virginia during the American Civil War . Pre - War . Warren was born in Harrisonburg , Virginia , where he practiced law before the war . He married Virginia Magruder , known as Jennie , in 1855 . They lived , beginning in 1856 , at what is now the E . T . Warren - Sipe House . ( The house served as a hospital following the Gettysburg Campaign . Joseph W . Latimer , the " boy major , " a Confederate artillerist , died there on August 1 , 1863 . ) Their son , James Magruder Warren , became a prominent local physician in the late nineteenth century . Edward Warren became a lieutenant in the Valley Guards , a local militia company . In that role , he attended the trial and execution of John Brown in 1859 . He was elected to the town council the next year but resigned after the outbreak of war . Civil War . The Valley Guards were incorporated into the 10th Virginia Infantry after the war began . Warren was commissioned lieutenant colonel of the 10th Virginia on August 1 , 1861 . As lieutenant colonel , Warren served at the First Battle of Bull Run , where the regiment served in the brigade of Brig . Gen . Edmund Kirby Smith . He became colonel on May 8 , 1862 , after Colonel Simeon B . Gibbons was killed at the Battle of McDowell in May 1862 . The 10th Virginia served under Stonewall Jackson in Jackson ' s Valley Campaign . At the First Battle of Winchester on May 25 , 1862 , Warren took his regiment to Brig . Gen . Richard Taylor ' s left flank to support his attack on the Union left . He was serving at the time under Col . Samuel V . Fulkerson in the absence of ailing Brig . Gen . William B . Taliaferro . Under Taliaferro ' s command , Warren ' s regiment also helped stop Col . Samuel S . Carroll ' s raid on Port Republic prior to the Battle of Port Republic on June 9 , 1862 . Warren missed the Battle of Cedar Mountain , in which the regiment was commanded by Maj . Joshua Stover and the Second Battle of Bull Run , where it was commanded by Lt . Col . Samuel T . Walker . Warren commanded Taliaferro ' s brigade in the early stages of the Maryland Campaign of 1862 , but his regiment was left to garrison Martinsburg , West Virginia , after the Federals abandoned the town . Col . James W . Jackson commanded the brigade at the Battle of Antietam . Warren led the brigade at Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville . Warren ' s brigade of Taliaferro ' s division was in reserve at Fredericksburg , supporting A . P . Hill ' s Light Division . After the breakthrough of the Pennsylvania Reserves , his command was brought forward to help fill a gap in the line . Brig . Gen . Raleigh E . Colston was assigned the brigade , but he led the division at Chancellorsville . Consequently Warren returned to brigade command , and his brigade was in the second line of Stonewall Jackson ' s surprise attack on the Union XI Corps on May 3 , 1863 . Brig . Gen . Robert Rodes , commanding the first line , called the brigade forward to help overcome Federal resistance near Wilderness Church . Col . Warren was severely wounded while leading an attack . At Gettysburg , Warren led his regiment under Brig . Gen . George H . Steuart in the attack on Culp ' s Hill . Steuart ' s brigade was at the left of the attack by Maj . Gen . Edward " Allegheny " Johnson on the position of the Union XII Corps on July 2 , 1863 . Warren ' s 10th Virginia was on the left of Steuart ' s line , and his unit advanced into a portion of the federal position left empty when troops were pulled out to go to the embattled left flank of the Army of the Potomac . Warren ' s report suggests that he was confused by the gathering dark and did not realize how near he was to the Federal supply line on the Baltimore Pike . On the next day , Warren ' s regiment was deployed as skirmishers to protect the left flank when Johnson renewed his failed attack on Culp ' s Hill . The regiment lost nearly 40 % of about 150 troops engaged . Warren ' s 10th Virginia was not engaged in the Bristoe Campaign in the fall of 1863 , but it did fight in the Battle of Mine Run . It was involved in an engagement with the Union III Corps at the Battle of Payne ' s Farm . Warren was killed in the Battle of the Wilderness on May 5 , 1864 . He was buried at the Woodbine Cemetery in Harrisonburg . His papers can be found in the Small Special Collections Library of the University of Virginia . Warren had strong opinions , expressed in letters to his wife . He dismissed Turner Ashby as " rather a humbug . " Warren also complained how many of his men Stonewall Jackson had gotten killed .