Lawrence O'B. Branch, Representative from North Carolina, Thirty-fifth Congress, half-length portrait

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Lawrence O'B. Branch, Representative from North Carolina, Thirty-fifth Congress, half-length portrait

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Vannerson, Julian, 1827-, photographer

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1859

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A bust portrait photograph of Confederate Brigadier General
Lawrence O'Bryan Branch in uniform

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Bust portrait photograph of General in uniform

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Brigadier General Lawrence O'Bryan Branch
(1820 - 1862)
Home State: North Carolina
Education: Princeton, Class of 1838
Command Billet: Brigade Commander
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: Branch's Brigade
On the Campaign-In command of Branch's Brigade of Hill's Light Division which arrived at Sharpsburg after an all day march from Harpers Ferry late on the afternoon of 17 September. He led part of the counterattack which drove the Federal Left Wing back from Sharpsburg at the end of the battle, where he was killed by a sharpshooter while consulting with General Hill and his other Brigade commanders. He was one of the 6 General Officers killed or mortally wounded at Sharpsburg, and was honored about 1897 by a mortuary cannon on the battlefield.

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