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James Jay Archer (December 19, 1817 – October 24, 1864) was a lawyer and an officer in the United States Army during the Mexican–American War.
He later served as a brigadier general in the Confederate States Army (CSA) during the American Civil War. Taken as a prisoner of war on the first morning of the Battle of Gettysburg, Archer was the first general officer captured from Gen.
Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia.
James J. Archer was held prisoner at Johnson's Island, in Lake Erie, Ohio, in the winter of 1863-64, when the temperature plunged to well below zero.
James jay archer biography of michael
But Archer evidently found ways to keep warm. The diary of a North Carolina captain, Robert Bingham, another Confederate prisoner, notes: "We had a jolly party in our room tonight. Captain Taylor got some whiskey in a box under other things and so not noticed." Bingham ad