Patrick T . Moore Patrick Theodore Moore ( September 22 , 1821 – February 19 , 1883 ) 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 Blackburn ' s Ford on July 18 , 1861 and was incapacitated for further field service . Thereafter , he served as an aide - de - camp 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 ( local defense forces ) in the Department of Richmond . He was a merchant and Virginia militia officer before the war and an insurance agent after the war . Early life . 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 . American Civil War . After the Virginia secession convention effectively removed Virginia from the Union even before the ratification vote of the people , Patrick T . Moore entered Virginia state militia service as colonel of the 1st Virginia Militia Regiment on April 21 , 1861 . He became colonel of the 1st Virginia Infantry of the Virginia Provisional Army on June 15 , 1861 . After the Virginia units were formally transferred to the Confederate States Army service he became colonel of the 1st Virginia Infantry Regiment on July 1 , 1861 . Moore received a head wound at the Battle of Blackburn ' s Ford , Virginia on July 18 , 1861 , three days before the main Battle of First Bull Run ( First Manassas ) , which incapacitated him for further field duty . Moore served as aide - de - camp to General Joseph E . Johnston between October 1861 and May 31 , 1862 and , after Johnston was wounded at the Battle of Seven Pines , as aide - de - camp to Lieutenant General James Longstreet between May 31 , 1861 and July 1862 . Moore ' s regiment had been in Longstreet ' s brigade during the First Bull Run Campaign . In December 1862 , Moore was appointed judge advocate general for the Confederate Trans - Allegheny Department and began two years of court martial duty . On April 28 , 1863 , he was appointed colonel , CSA , and judge advocate general . In January 1864 , he became judge advocate general for the Department of Richmond . From May 18 , 1864 to December 1864 , he was a brigade commander of the Reserve Forces of Virginia , which he helped organize under the direction of Brigadier General James L . Kemper . On September 20 , 1864 , Moore was promoted to brigadier general . Between December 1864 and April 1865 , he was in command of Brigade 1 of the Virginia Reserve Forces ( local defense troops ) in the Department of Richmond . Moore apparently did not evacuate Richmond with the brigade because he was not captured with Lieutenant General Richard S . Ewell ' s local defense forces at the Battle of Sayler ' s Creek on April 6 , 1865 and he was not paroled at at Appomattox Court House , Virginia on April 9 , 1865 or the days immediately thereafter . He was later paroled at Manchester , Virginia , now part of Richmond , Virginia , on April 30 , 1865 . He was pardoned on June 14 , 1865 . Aftermath . Moore became an insurance agent at Richmond , Virginia after the war . Patrick T . Moore died on February 19 , 1883 at Richmond Virginia . He is buried at Shockoe Hill Cemetery , Richmond .