William Flank Perry (March 12, 1823 – December 18, 1901) was a Confederate States Army brigadier general during the American Civil War.

After exercising brigade command for almost nine months in 1864 and early 1865, Perry was promoted to brigadier general near the end of the war.

[3] Perry was wounded by an artillery shell exploding near his head while he led the 44th Alabama Infantry in Major General John Bell Hood's division's general attack on the left flank of the Union Army line on Cemetery Hill and Little Round Top, near the area of boulders known as Devil's Den, on the second day of the Battle of Gettysburg.

[10] As they approached this objective, Law ordered Perry to seize four guns on the upslope behind Devil's Den as part of the assault.

[3][12] After Georgia regiments from Brigadier General Henry Benning's brigade moved forward in support of the 44th Alabama Infantry and 48th Alabama Infantry, the Confederates cleared out the Fourth New York Artillery Battery under Captain James E. Smith and ultimately won control of Devil's Den and nearby woods.

[13] The 44th Alabama Infantry held this area while other regiments from Law's and Robertson's brigades unsuccessfully assaulted Little Round Top.

[3] In the second period, following the Battle of Cold Harbor, the brigade was in Major General Charles W. Field's Division, I Corps, Army of Northern Virginia.

The school, headed by Dr. Archibald J Battle whose father, Dr. Cullen Battle had provided major financial support for the college, was not able to offer an education equal to the male colleges, but it did offer young women a classical education that included the Latin and French languages and Greek mythology.

The school was incorporated by an Act of the legislature, 21 December 1855 which named the original trustees as Wm P Chilton, Boling A Blakey, Henry A Howard, Sampson Lancier (Lanier?