Major-General James Birdseye McPherson

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July 22, 1864 - During the Battle of Atlanta, Major General James McPherson, commander of the Army of the Tennessee is killed when he accidently crosses Confederate lines.
 

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stumbling around a battlefield isn't a good idea
Stonewall was guilty of it too, but Stonewall was shot by his own men unlike McPherson who refused to be captured.

Sometimes you have to lead from the front, and McPherson did not have Custer's Civil War luck, which ran out for Autie as well.
 

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Stonewall was guilty of it too, but Stonewall was shot by his own men unlike McPherson who refused to be captured.

Sometimes you have to lead from the front, and McPherson did not have Custer's Civil War luck, which ran out for Autie as well.
Longstreet was also shot by his own men at the Wilderness. Several generals or other field officers were wounded or killed while leading from the front. Reynolds, Vincent, Armistead, Garnett, Hood and Barksdale at Gettysburg; Chamberlain at Petersburg; Albert Sydney Johnston at Shiloh; Sedgwick at Spotsylvania; old Phil Kearney at Chantilly; and about half the officer corps of Hood's army at Franklin. And those are just the ones I can think of off the top of my head.
 
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