![]() On June 20, 1823, in Wheeling, Virginia, Lewis Thomas and Rebecca Reno welcomed into the world their third child, a boy, and named him Jesse Lee Reno. Hill describes Reno as a “renegade Virginian” and Major General Ambrose Burnside lamented the country lost “one of its most devoted patriots.” Largely forgotten except by the most dedicated students o f the Civil War, who was Jesse Reno? In their respective official reports, Confederate General Daniel H. ![]() An 1846 graduat e of West Point, Reno was a career U.S Army officer rising to the rank of Major General before meeting his demise on the slopes of South Mountain in September 1862. Major General Jesse Lee Reno, a native of Virginia, came from humble beginnings in Wheeling, Virginia, today West Virginia. ![]() – Captain Gabriel Campbell, 17th Michigan Infantry to Ezra Carmen, 1899 ![]() We bore our beloved commander silently, slowly, tenderly. It was too dark to see Reno’s face at all closely. They pause as they meet me, and are glad of a little assistance in carrying the middle of the blanket on the right side, which duty fell to me. To my inquiring “what happened?” he answered, “Reno’s shot.” Immediately men bearing the General on a blanket follow. Quickly an orderly comes back leading several horses. Reno – By Tim Ware, George Tyler Moore Center Administrative Assistant “A gallant soldier, an able general, endeared to his troops and associates”- The Life of Major General Jesse L. Popodicon-Business Residence of the President.Agricultural Innovation Center at Tabler Farm.Shepherd Entrepreneurship and Research Corporation.Bonnie & Bill Stubblefield Institute for Civil Political Communications.Appalachian Heritage Writer-in-Residence.Byrd Center for Congressional History and Education Phi Beta Delta Honor Society for International Scholars.Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC).Center for Appalachian Studies and Communities. ![]()
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