"You will, ere this, no doubt, be informed of the unhappy fate of General Garnett, who fell while acting the part of a gallant soldier. His remains are now at Grafton, preserved in ice, where they will await the instructions of his relatives, should they desire to remove them to his home."

General George B. McClellan, USA to General Henry R. Jackson, CSA, July 15, 1861. Death of General Robert S. Garnett, first general officer to be killed in the war.