Isaac E. Avery

Isaac E. Avery

American Civil War

• First Battle of Bull Run
• Battle of Seven Pines
• Seven Days Battles
  • Battle of Gaines' Mill
• Battle of Fredericksburg
• Battle of Chancellorsville
• Battle of Gettysburg
  • Assault on Cemetery Hill †

Isaac Erwin Avery (December 20, 1828 – July 3, 1863) was a planter and an officer in the Confederate States Army. He died at the Battle of Gettysburg during the American Civil War. Avery is most remembered for a poignant blood-stained note that he wrote as he lay dying on the slopes of Cemetery Hill at Gettysburg.