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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.
Because both Heth and Pender were wounded in the fighting on July 1 and 2, however, their divisions fell under the command of Brigadier General James Johnston Pettigrew and Major General Isaac R. Trimble.
One of the oldest generals in the Confederate Army, he was a friend of Stonewall Jackson. He led troops in burning bridges and in several battles including Second Manassas, or Bull Run, after which he was promoted to major general. Captured at Gettysburg, he was a prisoner at Johnson’s Island and paroled in 1865.
Civil War Confederate Major General. Born in Culpeper County, Virginia, he graduated from the US Military Academy at West Point in 1822 and was commissioned a 2nd Lieutenant of artillery. He served in the 3rd and 1st US Artillery Regiments and resigned in 1832, to pursue the business of railroad construction.
1822: West Point Graduate 17th in class of 42 (nominated by Henry Clay) June 1822: Commissioned brevet 2nd Lieutenant of Artillery. Served 10 years in 3rd and 1st U. S. Artillery
Major General Isaac Ridgeway Trimble: Biography of a Baltimore Confederate. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2005. 263 p. E467.1.T74.T782.
Isaac Ridgeway Trimble distinguished himself as a field commander in the fiercest fighting of the Civil War, including the battles at Cross Keys in the Valley Campaign, Second Manassas, and Gettysburg.
