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Sorry, don’t know the answer but I am think somebody on the list might know.

Can somebody shed some light on Stonewall Jackson’s question: “I have found plenty of lists of the generals who were killed in the war, but do you know of a list of the brigade commanders who were still Colonels when they were killed? I know that there were three or four who were killed at Gettysburg, so it is probable that there were others over the course of the war.”

Thanks in advance.

"It is painful enough to discover with what unconcern they speak of war and threaten it. I have seen enough of it to make me look upon it as the sum of all evils."

I finally found a list of the Union brigade commanders who were still colonels when they were killed.

Killed in Action

Brigade Commanders, With Rank of Colonel

Colonel Edward D Baker - 71st Pennsylvania - Ball's Bluff

Colonel Julius Raith - 43d Illinois - Shiloh

Colonel Everett Peabody - 25th Missouri - Shiloh

Colonel George Webster - 98th Ohio - Chaplin Hills

Colonel John A Koltes - 73d Pennsylvania - Manassas

Colonel William B Goodrich - 60th New York - Antietam

Colonel George W Roberts - 42d Illinois - Stone's River

Colonel Frederick Schaefer - 2d Missouri - Stone's River

Colonel George C Spear - 61st Pennsylvania - Marye's Heights

Colonel David S Cowles - 128th New York - Port Hudson

Colonel George B Boomer - 26th Missouri - Vicksburg

Colonel Edward E Cross - 5th New Hampshire - Gettysburg

Colonel George L Willard - 125th New York - Gettysburg

Colonel Eliakim Sherrill - 126th New York - Gettysburg

Colonel Haldinand S Putnam - 7th New Hampshire - Fort Wagner

Colonel James E Mallon - 42d New York - Bristoe Station

Colonel Edward A King - 68th Indiana - Chickamauga

Colonel Hans C Heg - 15th Wisconsin - Chickamauga

Colonel Philemon P Baldwin - 6th Indiana - Chickamauga

Colonel William R Creighton - 7th Ohio - Ringgold

Colonel Patrick E Burke - 66th Illinois - Rome Cross Roads

Colonel Orlando H Morris - 66th New York - Cold Harbor

Colonel Lewis O Morris - 7th New York (H A) - Cold Harbor

Colonel Henry Boyd McKeen - 81st Pennsylvania - Cold Harbor

Colonel Frank A Haskell - 36th Wisconsin - Cold Harbor

Colonel Jeremiah C Drake - 112th New York - Cold Harbor

Colonel Richard Byrnes - 28th Massachusetts - Cold Harbor

Colonel Patrick Kelly - 88th New York - Petersburg

Colonel William Blaisdell - 11th Massachusetts - Petersburg

Colonel Simon Mix - 3d New York Cavalry - Petersburg

Colonel Calvin A Craig - 105th Pennsylvania - Deep Bottom

Colonel Nathan T Dushane - 1st Maryland - Weldon Railroad

Colonel Joseph Theburn - 1st West Virginia - Cedar Creek

Colonel Louis Bell - 4th New Hampshire - Fort Fisher

I found the list in Fox's Regimental Losses at http://www.civilwarhome.com/foxspref.htm