James Harvey Carson, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

James Harvey Carson

Virginia militia Confederate States Army Brigadier General

Date of Birth: 11-Feb-1808

Place of Birth: Frederick County, Virginia, United States

Date of Death: 13-Jan-1884

Profession: politician

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

James Harvey Carson (February 11, 1808 – January 13, 1884) was a brigadier general in the Virginia militia, who served along with the Confederate States Army in northwestern Virginia at various times during 1861 and early 1862 in the American Civil War (Civil War).
Carson's men were part of Stonewall Jackson's force that moved to take the town of Bath, later Berkeley Springs, now in West Virginia, on January 3, 1862. Carson left the military on February 1, 1862 to go back to and become president of the Virginia State Senate.
He returned to farming in 1864 and was active in law and real estate in Frederick County and in Leesburg in Loudoun County, Virginia after the war. Prior to the Civil War, Carson had been an assistant teacher, a farmer, a lawyer, a colonel in the Virginia militia in 1837, and a member of the Virginia General Assembly, first in the Virginia House of Delegates from 1844 to 1847, then in the Virginia State Senate from 1859 to 1864.