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Barnard E. Bee

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Barnard Elliott Bee Jr. (February 8, 1824 – July 22, 1861) was a United States Army officer and a Confederate States Army general during the American Civil War. He was mortally wounded at the First Battle of Bull Run, one of the first general officers to be killed in the war.

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  • There is Jackson standing like a stone wall. Let us determine to die here, and we will conquer. Follow me!
    • Rallying his troops to the charge at First Manassas (Bull Run), 21 July 1861. Reported in The Confederate States Almanac, and Repository of Useful Knowledge, for 1862 (Vicksburg, MS: H. C. Clark, 1862), p. 110
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