Brigadier General Patrick Theodore Moore
Brigadier General Patrick Theodore Moore
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Born in county Galway. Commanded 1st Virginia Infantry 1861. Wounded at Blackburn's Ford, Virginia. 18 July 1861. Served on Staffs of Generals J.E. Johnston and James Longstreet 1861-62. Judge Advocate-Gereral C.S.A. 1862-64. Commanded Richmond Local Defense Troops 1864-65.
Placed 2020 by the friends of S.H.C. and order of the Southern Cross.
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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 conflict.