Isaac Trimble
| Isaac Ridgeway Trimble | |
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Gen. Isaac R. Trimble
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| Born |
May 15, 1802 Culpeper County, Virginia |
| Died | January 2, 1888 (aged 85) Baltimore, Maryland |
| Place of burial | Green Mount Cemetery |
| Allegiance |
 United States of America Confederate States of America
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| Service/branch |
 United States Army Confederate States Army
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| Years of service | 1822 – 1832 (USA) 1861 – 1865 (CSA) |
| Rank |
 2nd Lieutenant (USA) Colonel (Maryland Militia) Major General (CSA)
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| Unit | 3rd U.S. Artillery 1st U.S. Artillery |
| Commands held | Trimble's Brigade Jackson's (Old) Division |
| Battles/wars | |
| Other work | Railroad executive |
Isaac Ridgeway Trimble (May 15, 1802 – January 2, 1888) was a United States Army officer, a civil engineer, a prominent railroad construction superintendent and executive, and a Confederate general in the American Civil War. He was born in Virginia, lived in Maryland for much of his adult life, and returned to Virginia in 1861 after Maryland did not secede. Trimble is most famous for his role as a division commander in the assault known as Pickett's Charge at the Battle of Gettysburg. He was wounded severely in the leg during that battle, and was left on the field. He spent most of the remainder of the war as a prisoner, and was finally paroled on April 16th, 1865, one week after Robert E. Lee surrendered the Army of Northern Virginia following the Battle of Appomattox Court House on April 9th.
Trimble was born in Culpeper County, Virginia, to John and Rachel Ridgeway Trimble, and his family moved to Kentucky shortly thereafter. As a teenager, he was nominated by his uncle, David Trimble, a Kentucky congressman, to attend the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York, from which he graduated in 1822, 17th in a class of 42. Although he excelled academically in engineering, he was commissioned as a brevet second lieutenant of artillery. He served for ten years as a lieutenant in the 3rd and 1st U.S. Artillery regiments, and left the U.S. Army in May 1832, along with five of his West Point classmates, to pursue the emerging business of railroad construction.
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