Carnot Posey Carnot Posey ( August 5 , 1818 – November 13 , 1863 ) was a Mississippi planter and lawyer , and a Confederate general in the American Civil War . He was mortally wounded at the Battle of Bristoe Station . He was transported for care to the University of Virginia , where the rooms on the Lawn all served as Confederate hospital rooms . He was placed in the same room [ Room 33 West Lawn ] where he lived many years earlier as a UVa Law student and later died in that room of his wounds . Early life and family . Posey was born near Woodville , Mississippi , the fourth of eight children of planter John Brooke Posey and Elizabeth Screven Posey . He attended the common schools and then graduated from college in Jackson , Mississippi , before studying law at the University of Virginia . He returned to his family ' s plantation and later established a law practice in Woodville . He married Mary Collins in May 1840 and they had two sons . However , Mary Posey died four years later . When the Mexican - American War erupted , Posey was commissioned a first lieutenant in the 1st Mississippi Rifles , a volunteer regiment commanded by future Confederate President Jefferson Davis . Posey fought at the Battle of Buena Vista , where he was wounded . Returning to Woodville after the war , Posey married Jane White in February 1849 . They would eventually have six children . U . S . President James Buchanan appointed Posey as the district attorney for southern Mississippi , a post he held when the state seceded from the Union . Civil War . Posey recruited a local militia company , the Wilkinson Rifles , and enlisted them into Confederate service , serving as their captain from May 21 , 1861 . They became part of the 16th Mississippi , with Posey being selected as the regiment ' s first colonel on June 4 . Not long afterward , Posey saw his first action of the war in a skirmish near Corinth , Mississippi . He and his men were transferred to the Eastern Theater in August 1861 . Posey suffered a slight wound at the Battle of Cross Keys during Major General Stonewall Jackson ' s Valley Campaign in June 1862 . His regiment fought through the Seven Days Battles with the Army of Northern Virginia under General Robert E . Lee . He served as the temporary commander of the brigade of four Mississippi infantry regiments , commanded by Brigadier General Winfield S . Featherston , during the Northern Virginia Campaign and the Maryland Campaign . Posey ' s regiment fought at Fredericksburg in December 1862 , successfully repelling a Union attack . In the spring of 1863 , Posey was promoted to Brigadier General with date of rank of November 1 , 1862 . The following May , Posey ' s Brigade saw limited action at the Battle of Chancellorsville , maintaining a reserve position at Salem Church . During the army reorganization following Stonewall Jackson ' s death , Posey ' s Brigade was assigned to Major General Richard H . Anderson ' s division of the Third ( A . P . Hill ' s ) Corps . During the Battle of Gettysburg in July , the brigade was part of Anderson ' s July 2 attack on Cemetery Ridge , conducting a " feeble , disjointed attack that was repulsed . " During the fall campaign , Posey was wounded in the left thigh by a shell fragment at the Battle of Bristoe Station on October 14 , 1863 . He was initially taken to Culpeper Court House for medical treatment . In an era with limited understanding of germs , infection soon set in . After a month ' s struggle to live , Posey died in Room 33 West Lawn at the University of Virginia , under the care of his good friend , Dr . John Davis , in Charlottesville , Virginia , in November . Posey was buried in the Davis family plot in the cemetery of the University of Virginia . In memoriam . The Carnot Posey Lodge # 378 of the Masons was founded in 1875 and named in his memory .