General Richard Ewell Color:Blue Around the time he passed

Around the time he passed the bar

19th Mississippi

although he had been pro-Union up until this point

After the sacrifice of countless millions of treasure and hundreds of thousands of lives

General Richard Ewell Color:Blue Around the time he passedRichard Stoddert Ewell was born on February 8, 1817, in Georgetown in the District of Columbia. He was the grandson of Benjamin Stoddert, the first secretary of the navy, and of Revolutionary War Colonel Jesse Ewell. He grew up in nearby Prince William County on his family's estate Stone Lonesome. He attended the United States Military Academy at West Point, where he was known as "Old Bald Head" or "Baldy" to his friends. He graduated thirteenth in