George William Brent (1821–1872), was a Virginia lawyer and politician, and a Confederate officer during the American Civil War.
[1] The 1850 federal census at Turners in Fauquier County, Virginia, lists Brent after fellow lawyer B. H. Shackelford among about two dozen people at what seems a boardinghouse.
In 1861, Alexandria's voters elected Brent, a Unionist and pro-slavery, as the city's delegate to the Virginia Secession Convention.
[1] Although he recovered from those injuries, about a year later, Brent caught typhus and pneumonia, and died at his home in Alexandria, age 51, as 1872 began.
His wartime diary is variously listed at the archives of the Western Reserve Historical Society and Duke University.