From the Richmond Whig, 5/20/1864, p. 1, c. 2
DEATH OF GORDON. - Brig.-Gen. J. B. Gordon,
of N. C., wounded while harassing the Yankee cavalry on the Brook Turnpike last
Thursday morning, died at the officers hospital in this city at 2 o’clock P. M.,
on Wednesday. His remains were carried to his native State last evening. Gen.
Gordon’s wound was not regarded as a dangerous one, but he sank from the shock
superadded to great physical and mental exhaustion incurred during his pursuit
of the Yankee cavalry from Spottsylvania C. H. to Richmond, and his fierce and
repeated engagements with them between these two points.
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