Colonel
Isaac
Erwin
Avery
Born in Amherst, Burke County, North Carolina
Ancestors 
Son of Isaac Thomas Avery
and Harriet Eloise (Erwin) Avery
Brother of
Infant Avery, William Waightstill Avery, Theodore Horatio Avery, Clark Moulton Avery, Leah Adelaide Avery, Mary Ann Martha (Avery) Chambers, Justina Harriet (Avery) Chambers, Alphonso Calhoun Avery Sr., Laura Myra Avery and Willoughby Francis Avery
[spouse(s) unknown]
[children unknown]
Died
at age 34
in Gettysburg, Adams County, Pennsylvania
Profile last modified
| Created 16 Nov 2018
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Biography
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]
Sources
- ↑ Isaac E Avery, Wikipedia.org, accessed June 11, 2020.
- ↑ Isaac Erwin Avery, FamilySearch.org, accessed June 11, 2020.
- ↑ Isaac Erwin Avery, Find A Grave: Memorial #5846976, accessed 15 November 2018.
- The Groton Avery Clan (Avery & Avery, 1912), p. 368, no. 649.x: https://archive.org/details/grotonaveryclan01aver/page/368/mode/1up
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