Wake-Halifax-Beaufort County NcArchives Military Records.....Branch, Lawrence O'Brian, Brig. General September 17, 1862
Civilwar General Staff of Confederate Regiment 
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Death Of Brig. Gen. L. O'B. Branch
The Standard of Raleigh Oct. 1, 1862
      DEATH OF BRIGADIER-GENERAL L. O'B. BRANCH
   We had barely space to announce in our last, the confirmation of the 
melancholy tidings of the fall of GEN. BRANCH in the battle of Sharpsburg*, 
Md. That confirmation imposes on us a melancholy duty. 
   LAWRENCE O'BRIAN BRANCH was born  in the County of Halifax, in this State, 
and emigrated when a boy to Tennessee. He was educated at Princeton, N. J. and 
settled in Florida, where he remained until 1849, when he returned to his 
native State, having several years previously married the accomplished 
daughter of GEN. WM. A. BLOUNT of Beaufort County.
   In 1855, he was elected to the House of Representatives from this District
 -- was re-elected in 1857 and 1859 and was a candidate in 1861 for re-
election, but withdrew as soon as Lincoln's proclamation appeared.
   He subsequently volunteered as a private in the Raleigh Rifles -- was 
appointed Quartermaster General of the State, then Colonel of the 33rd North 
Carolina Regiment, then Brigadier General, in which capacity he lost his life 
in the Battle of Sharpsburg, on Wednesday, the 17th inst., a ball having 
pierced his head, expiring in a short period in the arms of a friend. 

Additional Comments:
  *  Gen.Lawrence O'Brian Branch enlisted on Sept. 20, 1861 as  a Colonel in 
Company S, 33rd Infantry Regiment. On Jan. 17, 1862, he was promoted to Full 
Brigadier-General on the General Staff  Regiment of the Confederacy on 17 Jan. 
1862. He was killed at Antietam, Md. on 17 Sept. 1862. He was a resident of 
Wake County. (American Civil War Soldiers).

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