Henry Heth
U.S. actions against the Sioux
- Battle of Ash Hollow
American Civil War
- Battle of Chancellorsville
- Battle of Gettysburg
- Siege of Petersburg
Henry "Harry" Heth ( /ˈhiːθ/ not /ˈhɛθ/; December 16, 1825 – September 27, 1899) was a career United States Army officer and a Confederate general in the American Civil War. He is best remembered for inadvertently precipitating the Battle of Gettysburg, when he sent some of his troops of the Army of Northern Virginia to the small Pennsylvania village, according to his memoirs, to get some shoes.
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