Continued from Dec. 4. These were from the July McHenry County (Illinois) Civil War Table Discussion group.
Whiting was very much involved in the defenses and action around Charleston Harbor in March and April 1861.
He, however, got in trouble with Confederate President Jefferson Davis for declining the command of a brigade of five Mississippi regiments. Further problems came for his being very outrspoken about his superiors' shortcomings as he perceived them.
Whiting was at the Seven Days battles after which Lee replaced him and assigned him to the military district at Wilmington, North Carolina.
Promoted to major general in February 1863. After that, he briefly tookover the defense of Petersburg in May 1864.
--Old Secesh
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