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Perhaps one of the finest staff officers to come out of the Civil War, G. Moxley Sorrel served with distinction as adjutant-general and chief of staff under James Longstreet from the first shots at Manassas until the battle of the Wilderness where he was at the side of Longstreet when he fell.
After this battle, Sorrel received a much deserved regular commission as a brigadier-general and from the siege of Petersburg through the end of the war, led a brigade in Mahone's division of A.P. Hill's 3rd Corps. After the war Sorrel published a collection of his reminisces in a book entitled Recollections of a Confederate Staff Officer. Not dwelling to a large degree on tactics or critical analysis, Sorrel concentrates on some of the more interesting, less well-known anecdotes of the war. |
| Photo courtesy Library of Congress. |
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