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Gilbert Moxley Sorrel (February 23, 1838 – August 10, 1901) was a staff officer and brigadier general in the Provisional Army of the Confederate States.
- Sorrel's Brigade
- Brigadier General
- 1861–1865
- Confederate States Army
6 mag 2014 · To break the impasse, Longstreet sent his adjutant, Lieutenant Colonel Moxley Sorrel, with four brigades to attack Hancock's left flank in the woods three-quarters mile to your south. Sorrel used the bed of an unfinished railroad to reach his objective.
Lee’s “Old War Horse” turned to his aide, Colonel G. Moxley Sorrel, the 26-year-old former bank clerk employed before the war by the Georgia Central Railroad, to coordinate the proposed sortie. The young Sorrel, a native of Savannah, had accompanied Smith on his exploration below the Plank Road and was intimately familiar with the route ...
315 pages ; 25 cm. "General G. Moxley Sorrel's memoir takes the reader inside the workings of the Confederate army staff. Sorrel was a relatively unknown officer who rose through the ranks to become General Longstreet's most trusted associate. Sorrel's memoir makes no claims to strategic analysis.
That action, involving four brigades led by Longstreet’s assistant adjutant general, Lt. Col. G. Moxley Sorrel, got rolling about 11 a.m. It achieved the tactical surprise its organizers had hoped for and, in Hancock’s own words, began to roll up the Union battle lines like a wet blanket.
Gilbert Moxley Sorrel. Civil War Confederate Brigadier General. Born in Savannah, Georgia, he was a clerk for a railroad at the outbreak of the Civil War.
Moxley Sorrel (23 February 1838-10 August 1901) was a Brigadier-General of the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. Moxley Sorrel was born in Savannah, Georgia on 23 February 1838 to a wealthy family, and he was the brother-in-law of William W. Mackall. He worked as a bank...
