Alfred Cumming (30 January 1829 – 5 December 1910) was a Brigadier-General in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War.
Biography[]
Alfred Cumming was born in Augusta, Georgia in 1829, the son of a cotton magnate and the nephew of Utah Territory governor Alfred Cumming. Cumming graduated from West Point in 1849, placing 35th in his class of 43. Cumming served in the US Army in the American West and in Louisiana under Brigadier-General David E. Twiggs, and he later served under Albert Sidney Johnston and under his uncle during the Utah War in 1858. At the start of the American Civil War in 1861, Cumming chose the side of the Confederacy, and he commanded the 10th Georgia during the Peninsula Campaign of 1862, after which he was promoted to Brigadier-General for his skill as an officer. Cumming later fought at the Siege of Vicksburg, during which he was captured and paroled along with his men. Cumming would reorganize his regiment at Decatur, Georgia and lead it at the Battle of Chattanooga in 1864, and he fought in the Battle of Atlanta before being wounded at Jonesboro in 1865. After the war, he moved to Rome, Georgia, where he died in 1910 at the age of 81.