Mordecai Gist
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Mordecai Gist was a member of a prominent Maryland family who became a brigadier general in command of the Maryland Line in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War.
Portrait by Charles Willson Peale, c. 1774
States Rights Gist
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States Rights Gist was a lawyer and militia general in South Carolina, and later a Confederate Army brigadier general during the American Civil War. He gained prominence during the war but was killed
Mordecai Gist
…19, 1792. He is buried in St. Michael's Churchyard next to his son, States Gist, and daughter Susannah Gist. Mordecai Gist was distantly related to States Rights Gist, a brigadier general in the Confederate army during the American Civil War who died of wounds received while leading his brigade in a charge against…
Photo taken between 1862 and 1864