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Confederate Brig. Gen. Robert C. Tyler was the last Confederate general killed in battle. He was shot dead by a Union sniper during the Battle of West Point, Georgia, on the 16th of April, 1865, after stepping into the open to observe the battlefield.
The Battle of West Point, Georgia, took place on the 16th of April, 1865, in the final weeks of the American Civil War. It was part of Wilson's Raid, a Union campaign through Alabama and Georgia.
Fort Tyler was a 35-yard square earthwork on a hill on the Alabama side of the Chattahoochee River, equipped with a 32-pounder siege gun and two 12-pounder field pieces. It commanded the railroad bridges at West Point, which Colonel La Grange's Union brigade needed to capture intact.
Union forces suffered seven killed and twenty-nine wounded. Confederate losses were nineteen killed, twenty-eight wounded, and two hundred eighteen captured. The Confederate dead, including General Tyler, were buried in the Fort Tyler Cemetery on the east side of the Chattahoochee River.
West Point was one of only two Chattahoochee River crossings available to Wilson's raiders after capturing Montgomery, Alabama. The river was swollen by rains and could not be forded, so controlling one of the bridges was essential for continuing the Union advance eastward.
After the Confederate fort surrendered, Federal cavalry burned between 19 and 20 locomotives and between 340 and 350 rail cars belonging to the Montgomery and West Point Railroad. The narrow-gauge trains had been moved to West Point for safekeeping but were trapped there because their gauge was incompatible with other lines.