Carnot Posey
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Brigadier-General Carnot Posey |
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Portrait of Brigadier-General Posey
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| Born |
August 5, 1818 Wilkinson County, Mississippi |
| Died | November 13, 1863 (aged 45) Charlottesville, Virginia |
| Place of burial | University of Virginia Cemetery Charlottesville, Virginia |
| Allegiance |
 United States Confederate States
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| Service/branch |
 United States Army Confederate States Army
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| Years of service | 1846–48 (USA) 1861–63 (CSA) |
| Rank |
 Captain (Militia)
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| Battles/wars |
Mexican-American War American Civil War |
Carnot Posey (August 5, 1818 – November 13, 1863) was a Mississippi planter and lawyer, and a Confederate general in the American Civil War. He was mortally wounded at the Battle of Bristoe Station. He was transported for care to the University of Virginia, where the rooms on the Lawn all served as Confederate hospital rooms. He was placed in the same room (Room 33 West Lawn) where he lived many years earlier as a UVa Law student and later died in that room of his wounds.
Posey was born near Woodville, Mississippi, the fourth of eight children of planter John Brooke Posey and Elizabeth Screven Posey. He attended the common schools and then graduated from college in Jackson, Mississippi, before studying law at the University of Virginia. He returned to his family's plantation and later established a law practice in Woodville. He married Mary Collins in May 1840 and they had two sons. However, Mary Posey died four years later.
When the Mexican-American War erupted, Posey was commissioned a first lieutenant in the 1st Mississippi Rifles, a volunteer regiment commanded by future Confederate President Jefferson Davis. Posey fought at the Battle of Buena Vista, where he was wounded.
Returning to Woodville after the war, Posey married Jane White in February 1849. They would eventually have six children. U.S. President James Buchanan appointed Posey as the district attorney for southern Mississippi, a post he held when the state seceded from the Union.
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