Patrick Theodore Moore (September 22, 1821 – February 19, 1883) was an Irish-born
Lieutenant General James Longstreet, a judge advocate general on court martial duty and a brigade commander of Virginia Reserves (local defense forces) in the Department of Richmond. He was a merchant and Virginiamilitia
officer before the war and an insurance agent after the conflict.
Early life
Patrick T. Moore was born on September 22, 1821, in
Galway, Ireland.[1][2][3] His family moved to Canada in 1835, then to Massachusetts, where his father was British consul.[2][3][4] Moore moved to Virginia in 1850 where he worked as a merchant and was a captain in the Virginia militia.[1][2][3][5] By 1860 he was resident in Richmond's Ward 2. Along with his wife and four children, he owned five female slaves.[6]
American Civil War
After the
1st Virginia Infantry of the Virginia Provisional Army on June 15, 1861.[1] After the Virginia units were formally transferred to the Confederate States Army service he became colonel of the 1st Virginia Infantry Regiment on July 1, 1861.[1][2][3][4][5]
Moore received a head wound at the
Battle of First Bull Run (First Manassas), which incapacitated him for further field duty.[7]
Moore served as aide-de-camp to General
brigadier general.[1][2][3] Between December 1864 and April 1865, he was in command of Brigade 1 of the Virginia Reserve Forces (local defense troops) in the Department of Richmond.[1][3][5]
Moore apparently did not evacuate Richmond with the brigade because he was not captured with Lieutenant General
Battle of Sayler's Creek on April 6, 1865, and he was not paroled at Appomattox Court House, Virginia, on April 9, 1865, or the days immediately thereafter.[1][2][5] He was later paroled at Manchester, Virginia, now part of Richmond, Virginia, on April 30, 1865.[1][2][3] He was pardoned on June 14, 1865.[1][2]
^Warner, 1959, p. 220 states that Moore led his regiment at "First Manassas" and Boatner, 1988, p. 564 and Wert, 1986, p. 508 state that Moore led his regiment at "First Bull Run." Sifakis, 1988, p. 454 states: "While most accounts report him as being wounded at the head of his regiment at 1st Bull Run he was in fact wounded three days earlier at Blackburn's Ford along the same creek." Eicher, 2001, p. 395, agrees with Sifakis.
Wert, Jeffry D. "Moore, Patrick Theodore" in Historical Times Illustrated History of the Civil War, edited by Patricia L. Faust. New York: Harper & Row, 1986.
