Edward Tiffin Harrison Warren (June 19, 1829 – May 5, 1864) was a military

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who commanded a Virginia infantry regiment in the

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during the

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. He was killed in the

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on May 5, 1864.

Pre-war

Warren was born in

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, where he practiced law before the war. He married Virginia Magruder, known as Jennie, in 1855 at Frascati in Orange County. 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.

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, 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

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company. In that role, he attended the trial and execution of

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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

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after the war began. Warren was commissioned lieutenant colonel of the 10th Virginia on August 1, 1861. As the lieutenant colonel, Warren served at the

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, where the regiment served in the brigade of

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. He became

on May 8, 1862, after Colonel Simeon B. Gibbons was killed at the

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in May 1862. The 10th Virginia served under

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in Jackson's Valley Campaign. At the

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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.

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's raid on Port Republic before the

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on June 9, 1862. Warren missed the

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, in which the regiment was commanded by Maj. Joshua Stover and the

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, 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

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after the federals abandoned the town. Col.

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commanded the brigade at the

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. Warren led the brigade at Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville. Warren's brigade of Taliaferro's division was in reserve at Fredericksburg, supporting

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's Light Division. After the breakthrough of the

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, his command was brought forward to help fill a gap in the line. Brig. Gen.

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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

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on May 3, 1863. Brig. Gen.

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, 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

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. Steuart's brigade was at the left of the attack by

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Edward "Allegheny" Johnson on the position of the Union

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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

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. 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

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. It was involved in an engagement with the Union III Corps at the Battle of Payne's Farm. Warren was killed in the

on May 5, 1864 after succumbing to seven bullet wounds. He was buried at the

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in Harrisonburg. His papers can be found in the Small Special Collections Library of the

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. Warren had strong opinions, expressed in letters to his wife. He dismissed

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as "rather a humbug." Warren also complained how many of his men Stonewall Jackson had gotten killed.Tanner, p. 249.

Notes

References

* Carman, Ezra Ayers, ''The Maryland Campaign of September 1862: Ezra A. Carman's Definitive Study of the Union and Confederate Armies at Antietam'', ed. Joseph Pierro, New York: Routledge, 2008. * Cozzens, Peter, ''Shenandoah 1862'', Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2008. * Fergurson, Ernest B., ''Chancellorsville 1863: the Souls of the Brave'', New York: Knopf: 1992. * O'Reilly, Francis Augustin, ''The Fredericksburg Campaign: Winter War on the Rappahannock'', Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2003. * Tanner, Robert G., ''Stonewall in the Valley: Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson's Shenandoah Valley Campaign, Spring 1862'', Mechanicsville, PA: Stackpole Books, 1996. * Wayland, John W., A History of Rockingham County, Virginia, Dayton, VA: Ruebush-Elkins Company, 1912.

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''Antietam on the Web'' site biography of Warren. {{DEFAULTSORT:Warren, Edward Tiffin Harrison 1829 births 1864 deaths Confederate States Army officers People of Virginia in the American Civil War People from the Shenandoah Valley Confederate States of America military personnel killed in the American Civil War

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