Edward Tiffin Harrison Warren
Confederate Army officer
Edward Tiffin Harrison Warren (June 19, 1829 – May 5, 1864) was a Virginia lawyer and military colonel who commanded a Virginia infantry regiment in the Army of Northern Virginia during the American Civil War. He died in the Battle of the Wilderness on May 5, 1864.
Early and family life
Warren was born in Rockingham County, Virginia to the former Harriet Rice and her farmer husband Jehu Warren. Their family included an older brother, William Rice Warren and at least four younger sisters. Their father died in 1851. Edward received an education appropriate to his class.
In 1855 Warren married Virginia Magruder (known as Jennie), in 1855 at Frascati in Orange County, Virginia. They lived, beginning in 1856, in Harrisonburg, the Rockingham County seat, at what is now the E.T.Warren-Sipe House. (The house served as a hospital following the Gettysburg campaign. Joseph W. Latimer, the "boy major," a Confederate artillerist, died there on August 1, 1863.) Although his father may not have owned slaves, in the 1860 federal census, Warren owned $16,000 in real estate as well as $5000 in personal property, some of which a different schedule enumerated as four enslaved Blacks, and another person with the same surname on the same page also owned several slaves.
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