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David Bullock Harris
David Bullock Harris (September 28, 1814 – October 10, 1864) was a Colonel in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War (Civil War). Harris served as an engineer, mostly under the command of General Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard. Harris planned and constructed the defenses of Centreville, Virginia, Fort Pillow, Island Number Ten, Vicksburg, Mississippi, Charleston, South Carolina and Petersburg, Virginia in the siege of that city's opening phase. Harris died of yellow fever at Summerville, South Carolina on October 10, 1864.
==Early life==
David Bullock Harris was born at Frederick's Hall (now spelled Fredericks Hall) in Louisa County, Virginia on September 28, 1814 and grew up at Gardner's Crossroads (Gardners Crossroads) in Louisa County.〔Allardice, Bruce S. (''More Generals in Gray.'' ) Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1995. ISBN 0-8071-3148-2 (pbk.). Retrieved September 16, 2012. p. 118.〕〔Eicher, John H., and David J. Eicher. ''Civil War High Commands''. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2001. ISBN 0-8047-3641-3. p. 600.〕 His parents were Frederick and Catherine Snelson (Smith) Harris.〔 Frederick Harris was a U.S. Army captain during the War of 1812 and later was president of the Louisa Railroad, which became the Virginia Central Railroad.〔
David B. Harris graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1833.〔 He served for two years in the artillery branch of the U.S. Army and as an engineering instructor at the U.S. Military Academy.〔 He resigned from the U.S. Army as a second lieutenant in 1835.〔〔 For two years, he worked as an engineer for the James River and Kanawha Canal Company.〔 Thereafter, he did railroad survey work.〔 By 1845, he had acquired "Woodville," a Goochland County, Virginia plantation where he was a tobacco farmer and where he resided at the outbreak of the American Civil War.〔
Harris's wife was the former Louisa Knight.〔Allardice, Bruce S. ''Confederate Colonels: A Biographical Register''. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2008. ISBN 978-0-8262-1809-4. p. 183.〕
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