Famous People Who Died in 1863

May 3 Elisha Franklin Paxton [Bull Paxton], American general (Confederate Army), dies leading Stoneville Brigade at the Battle of Chancellorsville at 35
May 7 Amiel Weeks Whipple, US Union gen-major, dies of injuries at 46

Stonewall Jackson (1824-1863)

May 10 Confederate general during the American Civil War, dies of pneumonia at 39

May 14 Emile Prudent, French pianist and composer, dies at 46
May 16 Lloyd Tilghman, Confederate brigadier general, dies in battle at 47
May 27 Edward Payson Chapin, American lawyer and Union Army Colonel (posthumously elevated to Brigadier General), dies of injuries from the Siege of Port Hudson, Louisiana at 31
May 28 Edmund Kirby Jr, American Brigadier General (Union Army), dies of injuries at 23
Jun 7 Franz Xaver Gruber, Austrian organist and composer (Silent Night), dies at 75
Jun 9 Benjamin Franklin "Grimes" Davis, Union major, dies in battle at 30
Jun 17 Isham W Garrott, American attorney and Confederate brigadier general, dies in battle
Jun 26 Andrew Hull Foote, American Rear Admiral (Union Navy), dies at 56
Jun 27 Martin E Green, Confederate brigadier general, shot dead at 38
Jul 1 John Fulton Reynolds, American Union general-major, dies in the Battle of Gettysburg at 42
Jul 2 Stephen Hinsdale Weed, US Union brigadier general, dies in battle at 28
Jul 3 Alonzo Cushing, American Union officer, dies at the Battle of Gettsburg at about 22
Jul 3 Elon John Farnsworth, American Brigadier General (Union Army), dies at the battle of Gettysburg at 25
Jul 3 George Hull Ward, American general and Union officer in the American Civil War, dies of his wounds at the Battle of Gettysburg at 37
Jul 3 Little Crow [Ta-oya-te-duta], Mdewakanton Dakota leader (Treaty of Mendota), shot and killed by settlers at about 53
Jul 3 Richard B. Garnett, American Confederate Brigadier General, killed during Pickett's Charge, Battle of Gettysburg at 45
Jul 3 Samuel K. Zook, American Union general-major, dies of his wounds from the Battle of Gettysburg at 40
Jul 3 William Barksdale, American Confederate Brigadier General, dies in the Battle of Gettysburg while leading his brigade's attack at 41
Jul 4 Paul Joseph Revere, American grandson of Paul Revere, Brigadier General (Union Army), dies at 30
Jul 5 Lewis Armistead, Confederate brigadier general at Gettysburg (Pickett's Charge), dies of his injuries from the battle of Gettysburg at 46
Jul 6 Strong Vincent, American army officer (fought at Battle of Gettysburg), dies at 26 fighting at the Little Round Top in Gettysburg
Jul 8 Francis Kenrick, Irish-American Archbishop of Baltimore (1851-63), dies at 65
Jul 10 Clement Clarke Moore, American Professor and writer ('Twas the Night Before Xmas), dies at 83
Jul 10 Paul Jones Semmes, American businessman and Brigadier General (Confederate Army), dies at 48
Jul 13 John S. Bowen, American Major General (Confederate Army), dies at 32
Jul 17 J. Johnston Pettigrew, American lawyer and Confederate General in the American Civil War, dies at 35
Jul 18 William Dorsey Pender, US Confederate Major General, dies of injuries at 29
Jul 22 Karl Schuberth, German cellist, and composer, dies at 52

Sam Houston (1793-1863)

Jul 26 1st President of Republic of Texas (1836-38, 1841-44) who helped bring Texas into the United States as a constituent state, dies at 70

Jul 27 William Lowndes Yancey, American Confederate leader (b. 1813)
Jul 28 James Deshler, US Confederate brigadier general, dies in battle at 30
Jul 29 Edward Needle Kirk, US Union brigadier general, dies in battle at about 35
Jul 30 George Crockett Strong, US Union gen-mjr, dies of injuries at 29
Aug 5 Adolf Friedrich Hesse, German composer, dies at 53
Aug 8 Angus MacAskill known as 'Giant MacAskill', circus performer (b.1825)
Aug 13 Eugène Delacroix, French painter and etcher (Journal), dies at 65
Aug 14 Colin Campbell, British officer (Cawnpore), dies at 70
Aug 18 Thomas Welsh, US Union brigadier general (Antietam), dies at 39
Aug 26 John Bz. Floyd, American Governor (Virginia), Secretary of War (1857-60) and Confederate general, dies of failing health at 57
Sep 6 Lucius March Walker, Confederate brigadier general, dies of his wounds in a duel at 33
Sep 17 Albartus Telting, Frisian poet (Frisianch Jierboeckjen), dies at 59
Sep 17 Alfred Victor, Comte de Vigny, French musketeer and writer (Moise, Chatterton), dies at 66
Sep 19 Preston Smith, American Brigadier General (Confederate Army), dies in battle at 39
Sep 20 Benjamin Hardin Helm, American attorney and Confederate brigadier general and Abraham Lincoln's brother-in-law, dies at the Battle of Chickamauga at 33

Jacob Grimm (1785-1863)

Sep 20 German philologist, folklorist and editor of "Grimm's Fairy Tales", dies at 78

Sep 20 William Haines Lytle, American politician, poet and Brigadier General (Union Army), killed in action during the American Civil War at 36
Oct 2 Justinus van de Brugghen, lawyer/minister of Justice, dies
Oct 4 Gerrit Schimmelpenninck, Dutch politician (1st Dutch PM as Chairman of the Council of Ministers 1848), dies at 69
Oct 31 Louis Ludwig Blenker, German/US brigadier general (Union), dies at 51
Nov 2 Theodore Judah, American civil engineer (1st transcontinental railroad), dies of yellow fever at 37
Nov 13 Carnot Posey, Confederate brig-general, dies after being wounded in the Battle of Bristoe Station at 45
Nov 15 Frederik VII, 1st constitutional king of Denmark (1848-63), dies at 55
Nov 20 James Bruce, 8th Earl of Elgin & Kincardine and Governor (Jamaica), dies at 52
Nov 21 Joseph Mayseder, Austrian violinist and composer, dies at 74
Nov 24 Claudius Charles Wilson, American Brigadier General (Confederate Army), dies of fever at camp in Ringgold, Georgia at 32
Dec 2 Jane Appleton Pierce, American 1st lady (1853-57) and wife of Franklin Pierce, dies of tuberculosis at 57
Dec 13 Friedrich Hebbel, German poet and dramatist (Maria Magdalena), dies at 50
Dec 22 Michael Corcoran, Union brigadier general, dies at 36
Dec 24 William Makepeace Thackeray, British novelist (Vanity Fair), dies at 52