From Antietam on the Web:
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"Before the Antietam Campaign:
Known as Skidmore, or "Skid", he was superintendent of a copper mine at Canton, GA before the war. He was elected Lieutenant and later Lt. Colonel of the 2nd Ga, and was made the first Colonel of the new 43rd Georgia in March 1862.
In the Antietam Campaign:
He is shown in some Orders of Battle, including those of Carman and of the National Battlefield, as Major, and the next CO of the 2nd Regiment after the death of Lt Colonel Holmes on September 17th, 1862. This is in error: he was not with the 2nd Georgia at Sharpsburg. Skidmore had been the Lieutenant Colonel of the 2nd since shortly after the Regiment was organized in May 1861, but had left the unit to be Colonel of the brand new 43rd Georgia in March 1862.
William Terrell Harris was the Harris who was Major of the 2nd at Sharpsburg, and was promoted Lt Colonel to date from 17 September. It is he who relieved LCol Holmes in command on that day.
The remainder of the War:
Colonel Skidmore Harris died of a leg wound received while leading the 43rd at Baker's Creek (Champion's Hill), Mississippi, 16 May 1863 - on the Vicksburg Campaign.
References, Sources, and other notes:
His picture here from a tinted, full-length portrait kindly supplied by GGGranddaughter Megg Norberg.
More on the Web:
There's a bronze plaque with his likeness at Vicksburg National Military Park.
Birth Date:
08/28/1828
Place of Birth:
Rockingham County, NC
Death Date:
05/17/1863
Death Place:
near Bolton, MS
Burial Place:
Riverview Cemetery, Canton, GA"
From the Smithsonian website:
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"Sculptor:
Brewster, George Thomas 1862-1943
Founder:
Gorham Manufacturing Company
Subject:
Harris, Skidmore
Medium:
Relief: bronze; Stele and base: pink/gray granite
Type:
Sculptures-Relief
Sculptures-Stele
Sculptures-Outdoor Sculpture
Sculptures
Owner/Location:
Administered by United States Department of the Interior National Park Service Washington District of Columbia
Administered by Vicksburg National Military Park 3201 Clay Street, Box 349 Vicksburg Mississippi 39180
Located Confederate Avenue, just past Vicksburg School Vicksburg Mississippi
Date:
Dedicated 1919
Topic:
History--United States--Civil War
Portrait male--Bust
Occupation--Military--Colonel
Control number:
IAS MS000015
Notes:
Save Outdoor Sculpture, Mississippi survey, 1992
National Park Service, American Monuments and Outdoor Sculpture Database, MS7101, 1989
Summary:
A relief portrait, bust-length, of Colonel Skidmore Harris. He wears a uniform, but no hat. He has a full beard and moustache. The relief is on a granite stele, which rests on a low rectangular granite base
Data Source:
Art Inventories Catalog, Smithsonian American Art Museums"
Text of the marker:
Skidmore Harris
Col. 43rd Georgia Infty
Killed in Battle
May 16, 1863