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Famous People Who Died in September 1863

  • Sep 6 Lucius March Walker, Confederate brigadier general, dies of his wounds in a duel at 33
  • Sep 17 Albartus Telting, Frisian poet (Frisianch Jierboeckjen), dies at 59
  • Sep 17 Alfred Victor, Comte de Vigny, French musketeer and writer (Moise, Chatterton), dies at 66
  • Sep 19 Preston Smith, American Brigadier General (Confederate Army), dies in battle at 39
  • Sep 20 Benjamin Hardin Helm, American attorney and Confederate brigadier general and Abraham Lincoln's brother-in-law, dies at the Battle of Chickamauga at 33

Jacob Grimm (1785-1863)

Sep 20 German philologist, folklorist and editor of "Grimm's Fairy Tales", dies at 78

  • Sep 20 William Haines Lytle, American politician, poet and Brigadier General (Union Army), killed in action during the American Civil War at 36