William E. Starke
William Edwin Starke (1814 – September 17, 1862) was a wealthy Gulf Coast businessman and a brigadier general in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. He was killed in action at the Battle of Antietam while commanding the famed "Stonewall Division," a unit first made famous under Stonewall Jackson.
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“In enterprise of martial kind,
When there was any fighting,
He led his regiment from behind
He found it less exciting.”
—Sir William Schwenck Gilbert (18361911)