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Allan was born on November 12, 1837, at Winchester Gardens, near Winchester, one of two children, both sons, of Thomas Allan and Jane Dowdell George Allan. After being educated in a local private school, he taught in Jefferson County and in Winchester to earn enough money to enroll in the University of Virginia in 1857. Allan excelled at debate and graduated with honors in 1860 with an MA in applied arithmetic. He moved to Loudoun County where he was assistant to the principal of Bloomfield Academy when the Civil War began.
Allan enlisted in the Confederate army and served as a clerk in the quartermaster department under Stonewall Jackson. In 1862, sponsored by University of Virginia classmate Alexander “Sandie” Pendleton, Allan took the ordnance officer examination. He passed with the highest score and on December 27, 1862, became a captain of artillery. On January 19, 1863, he was appointed to Jackson’s staff as chief of ordnance of the Second Corps, Army of Northern Virgini
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Richard S. Ewell was a Confederate lieutenant general during the American Civil War (1861–1865) who apprenticed under Thomas J. “Stonewall” Jackson during the Shenandoah Valley Campaign of 1862, and later took charge of the Army of Northern Virginia‘s Second Corps after Jackson’s death. Nicknamed “Old Bald Head” and said to be “blisteringly profane,” Ewell courted controversy with his decision not to attack Cemetery Hill on the first day of the Battle of Gettysburg (1863). Some historians have claimed that Ewell’s inaction in this episode cost the Confederates the battle, although Robert E. Lee‘s orders on the matter were vague and it is unclear whether Ewell’s men could have carried the day in any case.
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