Isaac Erwin Avery was a Confederate Army Officer. Served during the American Civil War as Colonel and commander of the 6th North Carolina Infantry. At the Battle of Gettysburg, on the evening of July 2, 1863, he led his Brigade as he stormed East Cemetery Hill trying to dislodge the Union forces. Halfway up the hill he was killed. His final words were "Tell my father I died with my face to the enemy." His body was borne to the rear and later buried at or near Ball's Bluff National Cemetery near Leesburg, but was later removed to Hagerstown, Maryland.[1]
Born December 20, 1828 at Swan Ponds plantation in Burke County, North Carolina. Son of Isaac Thomas Avery and Harriet Eloise Erwin [2], he was their tenth child.
Col. Isaac Irwin Avery was killed in action at Gettysburg, Adams County, Pennsylvania. Final resting place in Washington Confederate Cemetery, Hagerstown, Washington County, Maryland.[3]
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