Charles Sidney Winder Charles Sidney Winder ( October 18 , 1829 – August 9 , 1862 ) , was a career United States Army officer and a Confederate general officer in the American Civil War . He was killed in action during the Battle of Cedar Mountain . Early life and career . Winder was born in the town of Easton in Talbot County , Maryland , a nephew of future U . S . naval officer Franklin Buchanan and a second cousin to future Confederate general John H . Winder . He attended St . John ' s College , also located in Maryland . Then in 1846 he entered the United States Military Academy at West Point , and graduated 22nd of 44 cadets in 1850 . He was appointed a brevet second lieutenant in the 4th U . S . Artillery . Exactly a year after leaving West Point , Winder was promoted to second lieutenant in the 3rd U . S . Artillery on July 1 , 1851 . Winder served as the 3rd ' s Regiment al Adjutant from April 4 , 1854 to March 3 , 1855 , with a promotion to first lieutenant coming on April 5 , 1854 . In 1854 , while en route to California , the vessel on which he was aboard , the " San Francisco " , was struck by a hurricane . For his valor in the face of this crisis , Winder was promoted to captain in the 9th U . S . Infantry on March 3 , 1855 , at the relatively young age of twenty - six . He later saw action against Native Americans in the Washington Territory . At the outbreak of hostilities between North and South , he resigned from the Army in 1861 . Civil War service . Winder resigned his U . S . Army commission on April 1 , 1861 , and was appointed a captain of artillery in the Confederate Army on March 16 , and then quickly promoted to major later that day . He was appointed colonel of the 6th South Carolina Infantry on July 8 , leading it to prominence in the Confederate army . He was promoted to brigadier general on March 1 , 1862 , and assigned to the Shenandoah Valley under the command of Stonewall Jackson . Having recently court - martial ed Brig . Gen . Richard B . Garnett , Jackson placed Winder in command of his old brigade . This , combined with Winder ' s reputation as a strict disciplinarian , was widely resented by both the officers and men now under him . In fact , so general was the feeling of animosity toward him , by August 1862 it was widely rumored Winder would be shot by one of his own men in the next battle . Cedar Mountain and death . On August 9 , 1862 , Winder led his men into battle at Cedar Mountain , on the left flank of the Confederate line . He did so despite having been ill for several days , and in defiance of a surgeon ' s order to rest . He was personally directing the fire of a battery when a Union shell struck him in his left side , horribly mangling him . Borne to the rear on a stretcher , Winder died later that evening . Winder ' s body was initially buried in nearby Orange Court House , before being disinterred and transported to Richmond . There , a state funeral was given in his honor , followed by re - interment at Hollywood Cemetery . Three years later , his family had his body again removed , this time to be permanently buried in the family cemetery at Wye House , located near his birthplace of Easton , Maryland . In his official report of the battle , Stonewall Jackson lamented General Winder ' s loss , writing ,