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This is a list of people who were general officers in the American Civil War
American Civil War
The American Civil War , also known as the War Between the States and several Naming the American Civil War, was a civil war in the United States.... .
John Joseph Abercrombie was a career United States Army officer who served in numerous wars, finally reaching the rank of Brigadier general during the American Civil War....
Adelbert Ames was an United States sailor, soldier, and politician. He served with distinction as a Union Army general during the American Civil War, was a politician in Reconstruction era of the United States Mississippi, and then served as a United States Army general during the Spanish-American War....
Jacob Ammen was a college professor, civil engineer, and a General officer in the Union Army during the American Civil War. His younger brother, Daniel Ammen, was an admiral in the United States Navy....
George Leonard Andrews was an United States professor, civil engineer, and soldier. He was a Brigadier general in the Union Army during the American Civil War....
Lewis Golding Arnold was a career United States Army officer and a Brigadier general in the Union Army during the American Civil War, primarily noted for his service in Florida in the American Civil War....
Richard Arnold was a career United States Army officer who served as a Brigadier general in the Union Army during the American Civil War. His artillery helped force the surrender of two important Confederate States Army towns, including Mobile, Alabama....
Smith Dykins Atkins was an United States newspaper editor, lawyer, and a Union Army General officer during the American Civil War. After hostilities ended he returned to his editorial work and became an author....
Absalom Baird was a career United States Army officer who distinguished himself as a Union Army general in the American Civil War. Baird was awarded the Medal of Honor for his military actions...
Edward Dickinson Baker was an English people-born Politics of the United States, Law of the United States, United States armed forces. In his political career, Baker served in the United States House of Representatives from Illinois and later as a United States Senate from Oregon....
Lafayette C. Baker was a United States investigator and spy, serving for the Union Army, during the American Civil War and under presidents Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson....
Nathaniel Prentice Banks was an United States politician and soldier, served as Governor of Massachusetts, Speaker of the United States House of Representatives and as a Union Army general during the American Civil War....
William Farquhar Barry was a career officer in the United States Army, serving as an artillery commander during the Mexican-American War and American Civil War....
William Francis Bartlett was an United States soldier. He was born at Haverhill, Massachusetts, Massachusetts, and studied at Harvard University for three years, but left college in 1861 to join the Union Army....
Henry Baxter was a general in the Union Army during the American Civil War. At the Battle of Gettysburg, his brigade resisted a Confederate States Army assault from parts of History of Confederate States Army Generals#Major general Robert Rodes's division, slaughtering hundreds in a surprise attack on Colonel Alfred Iverson's brigade, and he...
Samuel Beatty was an United States soldier, sheriff, and farmer from Ohio. He was a Brigadier general in the Union Army during the American Civil War....
William Plummer Benton was an United States lawyer and soldier who served in both the Mexican-American War and the American Civil War, where he would rise to the rank of Major general ....
Hiram George Berry was an United States of America politician and soldier, best known for his service as a general in the Army of the Potomac during the American Civil War....
Henry Warner Birge was an United States soldier, born at Hartford, Connecticut, Connecticut At the opening of the American Civil War he organized the first state regiment of three-year troops ? the Fourth Connecticut Volunteers ? in which he was appointed major....
William Birney was a professor, Union Army general during the American Civil War, attorney and author. An ardent abolitionist, he was noted for encouraging thousands of free black men to join the Union army....
Edward Stuyvesant Bragg was a Democratic Party politician, lawyer and Union Army general from Wisconsin. He served in the United States House of Representatives from 1877 to 1883 and from 1885 to 1887 and subsequently served as a foreign diplomat....
John Milton Brannan was a career United States Army officer who served in the Mexican-American War and as a Union Army general in the American Civil War....
Henry Shaw Briggs was an American Civil War Union Brigadier General. He was the son of George N. Briggs. Before and after the Civil War, Briggs was a lawyer and politician....
Benjamin William Brice was a lawyer and soldier who served in the United States Army during the Black Hawk War and Mexican-American War. Later employed as the Paymaster General of the Union Army during the American Civil War and postbellum periods, Brice had on his retirement in 1872 risen to the rank of Brevet Major general ....
Roeliff Brinkerhoff was a lawyer, editor and owner of the Mansfield Herald, and later a bank president. He was a quartermaster and supply officer in the Union Army during the American Civil War, rising to the rank of Brigadier general ....
Robert Christie Buchanan was an United States of America military officer who served in the Mexican-American War and then was a General officer in the Union Army during the American Civil War....
Ralph Pomeroy Buckland was a United States House of Representatives from Ohio, as well as a Brigadier general in the Union Army during the American Civil War and an executive of the Union Pacific Railroad following the war....
Don Carlos Buell was a career United States Army officer who fought in the Seminole War, the Mexican-American War, and the American Civil War. Buell led Union Army armies in two great Civil War battles—Battle of Shiloh and Battle of Perryville—but was relieved of field command in late 1862 and made no more significant military co...
Hiram Burnham was an officer in the Union Army who commanded a regiment and then a brigade in the Eastern Theater of the American Civil War of the American Civil War....
William Wallace Burns was a career United States soldier who served in the Union Army during the American Civil War, reaching the rank of Major general in the volunteer army....
Richard Busteed was an attorney and soldier who served in the Union Army during the American Civil War. He was a lawyer before and after the war, and also served as the U.S....
Benjamin Franklin Butler was an Law of the United States and Politics of the United States who represented Massachusetts in the United States House of Representatives and later served as governor of Massachusetts....
Daniel Adams Butterfield was a New York businessman, a Union army General officer in the American Civil War, and Assistant U.S. Treasurer in New York....
Robert Alexander Cameron was an United States soldier and newspaper publisher. He served as a Union Army General officer during the American Civil War....
Charles Thomas Campbell was an United States Army soldier, and a legislator, businessman, and town mayor. He also served as a Union Army General officer during the American Civil War, and was seriously wounded several times in the conflict....
James Henry Carleton was an officer in the Union army during the American Civil War. Carleton is most famous as an Indian fighter in the Southwestern United States United States....
Samuel Spriggs "Red" Carroll was a career officer in the United States Army who rose to the rank of Brigadier general during the American Civil War....
Robert Francis Catterson was an United States physician and soldier. He served in the Union Army during the American Civil War, enlisting at its beginning and rising to a general officer near the end....
Stephen Gardner Champlin was an United States physician, lawyer, soldier, and judge. He served in the Union Army during the American Civil War, rising to the rank of Brigadier general before succumbing to wounds he received in combat....
Edward Payson Chapin was an United States lawyer and soldier. He served in the Union Army during the American Civil War, and was wounded twice, both times occurring on May 27....
George Henry Chapman was an United States sailor, newspaper editor, lawyer, and soldier. He served in the United States Navy during the Mexican?American War and as a Union Army General officer during the American Civil War....
William Thomas Clark was an United States soldier and politician, serving as a general in the Union army during the American Civil War and as a postbellum United States House of Representatives....
Powell Clayton was the first carpetbagger List of Governors of Arkansas of the State of Arkansas and Ambassador to Mexico during the administrations of William McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt....
Patrick Edward Connor was a Union General officer during the American Civil War. He was most famous for his campaigns against Native Americans in the United States in the American Old West....
Philip St. George Cooke was a career United States Army cavalry officer who served as a Union army General officer in the American Civil War. He is noted for his authorship of an Army cavalry manual, and is sometimes called the "Father of the U.S....
James Cooper was an United States lawyer, soldier, and politician, who served in the United States Congress.Cooper lived much of his life in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania....
Michael Corcoran , was an Irish people, United States general in the Union Army during the American Civil War and a close confidant of President of the United States Abraham Lincoln....
Jacob Dolson Cox, was a lawyer, a Union Army general during the American Civil War, and later a United States Republican Party politician from Ohio....
James Craig was an United States lawyer and politician from Saint Joseph, Missouri. He represented Missouri in the United States House of Representatives from 1857 until 1861....
George Washington Cullum was an United States soldier, engineer and writer. He served as a general in the Union Army during the American Civil War, primarily serving in the Western Theater of the American Civil War....
Newton Martin Curtis was a Union Brigadier general during the American Civil War and a member of the United States House of Representatives from New York....
George Armstrong Custer was a United States Army officer and cavalry commander in the American Civil War and the Indian Wars. At the start of the Civil War, Custer was a cadet at the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York, and his class's graduation was accelerated so that they could enter the war....
Thomas Alfred Davies was an United States businessman, engineer, and soldier. He served as a General officer in the Union Army during the American Civil War....
Edmund Jackson Davis was an United States lawyer and politician from Texas. He was born in St. Augustine, Florida.Davis served as a Union Army Brigadier general during the American Civil War, commanding the 1st Texas Cavalry Regiment ....
Richard Delafield served as superintendent of the United States Military Academy, was Chief of Engineers, and was a Major general in the Union Army during the American Civil War....
Elias Smith Dennis was a lawyer, politician, and soldier from the state of Illinois who served as a general officer in the Union Army during the American Civil War....
Frederick Tracy Dent was an United States soldier, born in Ulysses S. Grant National Historic Site, St. Louis County, Missouri, Missouri He graduated at United States Military Academy in 1843, was assigned as brevet second lieutenant to the Sixth Infantry, served in the Southern campaign during the Mexican-American War, and was brevetted fi...
James William Denver was an United States politician, soldier, and lawyer. He served in the California state government, as an officer in the United States Army in two wars, and as a United States Democratic Party member of the United States House of Representatives from California....
John Watts de Peyster, Sr. was an author on the art of war, philanthropist, and early Adjutant General of the New York National Guard. He served in the New York State Militia during the Mexican-American War and American Civil War....
Philippe R?gis Denis de Keredern de Trobriand was a French aristocrat, lawyer, poet, and novelist who emigrated at a young age to the United States....
Thomas Casimer Devin was an United States Army officer and general. He commanded Union army cavalry during the American Civil War and cavalry regiments during the Indian Wars....
John Adams Dix was an United States politician from New York. He served as Secretary of the Treasury, U.S. Senator, and Governor of New York. He was also a distinguished American Civil War General....
Grenville Mellen Dodge was a Union army officer on the frontier and during the American Civil War, a U.S. Congressman, businessman, and railroad executive who helped construct the First Transcontinental Railroad....
Abner Doubleday was a career United States Army officer and Union Army general in the American Civil War. He fired the first shot in defense of Battle of Fort Sumter, the opening battle of the war, and had a pivotal role in the early fighting at the Battle of Gettysburg....
William Ward Duffield was an executive in the coal industry, a railroad construction engineer, and an officer in the Union Army during the American Civil War....
Abram Dury?e was a Union Army general during the American Civil War, the commander of one of the most famous Zouave regiments, the 5th New York Volunteer Infantry....
Isaac Harding Duval was an adventurer and businessman prior to becoming a Brigadier general in the Union Army during the American Civil War. He was a postbellum United States House of Representatives from West Virginia in the 41st United States Congress....
Alexander Brydie Dyer was an United States soldier in a variety of 19th century wars, serving most notably as a general and chief of ordnance for the Union Army during the American Civil War....
Alonzo Jay Edgerton was an United States politician, who graduated from Wesleyan University in 1850, and there became a member of the Mystical Seven ....
John Edwards was a United States House of Representatives from Arkansas.Born in Louisville, Kentucky, Edwards received a limited schooling.He studied law and was Admission to the bar in the United States....
Alfred Washington Ellet was a civil engineer and a Brigadier General#United States in the Union Army who commanded the United States Ram Fleet during the American Civil War....
Washington Lafayette Elliott was a Brigadier general in the Union Army during the American Civil War. He led a division of IV Corps at the Battle of Nashville in 1864....
Charles Ewing, was an attorney and Union Army general during the American Civil War. He was the son of United States Secretary of the Interior Thomas Ewing, the brother of Thomas Ewing, Jr....
Hugh Boyle Ewing, , was a diplomat, author, attorney, and Union Army general during the American Civil War. He was a member of the prestigious Ewing family, son of Thomas Ewing, the eldest brother of Thomas Ewing, Jr....
Lucius Fairchild was an United States politician, army general, and diplomat. He served as the 10th governor of Wisconsin and as United States diplomatic minister to Spain....
John Franklin Farnsworth was a seven-term United States House of Representatives from Illinois and a general in the Union Army during the American Civil War....
Edward Ferrero was one of the leading dance instructors, choreographers, and ballroom operators in the United States. He also served as a Union Army general in the American Civil War, best remembered for his role in the Battle of the Crater in 1864....
Orris Sanford Ferry was a Republican Party United States lawyer and politician from Connecticut who served in the United States House of Representatives and the United States Senate....
Francis Fessenden was a lawyer, politician, and soldier from the state of Maine who served as a General officer in the Union Army during the American Civil War....
James Deering Fessenden was a lawyer, politician, and soldier from the state of Maine who served as a General officer in the Union Army during the American Civil War....
Clinton Bowen Fisk , for whom Fisk University is named, was a senior officer during Reconstruction era of the United States in the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands....
Manning Ferguson Force was a lawyer, judge and soldier from Ohio. He became known as the commander of the 20th Ohio Volunteer Infantry in the Union Army during the American Civil War, and was a recipient of the Army Medal of Honor for gallantry in action....
James William Forsyth was a U.S. Army officer and general. He commanded Union cavalry during the American Civil War and cavalry regiments during the Indian Wars....
John Gray Foster was a career military officer in the United States Army and a Union Army general during the American Civil War whose most distinguished services were in North Carolina and South Carolina....
William Buel Franklin was a career United States Army officer and a Union Army general in the American Civil War. He rose to the rank of a corps commander in the Army of the Potomac, fighting in several notable early battles in the Eastern Theater of the American Civil War....
John Charles Fr?mont , was an United States military Commissioned officer, List of explorers, the first candidate of the History of United States Republican Party for the office of President of the United States, and the first presidential candidate of a major party to run on a platform in opposition to slavery....
William Henry French was a career United States Army officer and a Union Army General officer in the American Civil War. He rose to temporarily command a corps within the Army of the Potomac, but was relieved of active field duty following poor performance during the Mine Run Campaign in late 1863....
Kenner Garrard was a Brigadier general in the Union Army during the American Civil War. A member of one of Ohio's most prominent military families, he performed well at the Battle of Gettysburg, and then led a cavalry division in the army of Major general William T....
John White Geary was an United States lawyer, politician, and a Union Army General officer in the American Civil War. He was the final alcalde and first mayor of San Francisco, California, and the governor of the Kansas Territory and Pennsylvania....
George Washington Getty was a career military officer in the United States Army, most noted for his role as a division commander in the Army of the Potomac during the final full year of the American Civil War....
Alvan Cullem Gillem was a general in the Union Army during the American Civil War. Although Southern-born, he remained loyal to the Federal government and fought in several battles in the Western Theater of the American Civil War before commanding occupation troops in Mississippi and Arkansas during Reconstruction era of the United States....
Quincy Adams Gillmore was an United States civil engineer, author, and a general in the Union Army during the American Civil War. He was noted for his actions in the Union victory at Fort Pulaski, where his modern rifled artillery readily pounded the fort's exterior stone walls, an action that essentially obsoleted stone fortifications....
Willis Arnold Gorman was an United States lawyer, soldier, politician, and a general in the Union Army during the American Civil War.Gorman was born near Flemingsburg, Kentucky....
Gordon Granger was a career U.S. army officer and a Union general during the American Civil War. He distinguished himself at the Battle of Chickamauga....
Robert Seaman Granger was a career officer in the United States Army, reaching the Brevet rank of Major general in the Union Army during the American Civil War....
Lewis Addison Grant was a teacher, lawyer, soldier in the Union Army during the American Civil War and later Assistant U.S. Secretary of War. He was among the leading officers from the state of Vermont, and received the Medal of Honor for "personal gallantry and intrepidity."...
Ulysses S. Grant, born Hiram Ulysses Grant , was an United States general and the List of Presidents of the United States President of the United States ....
George Sears Greene was a civil engineer and a Union Army General officer during the American Civil War. He was part of the Greene family of Rhode Island, which had a distinguished military record for the United States....
Walter Quintin Gresham was an United States statesman and jurist. He served as United States Postmaster General, as a judge on the United States Courts of Appeals, was a two-time candidate for the United States Republican Party presidential nomination and was United States Secretary of State, and United States Secretary of the Treasury....
Benjamin Henry Grierson was a music teacher and then a career officer in the United States Army. He was a Cavalry in the American Civil War general in the volunteer Union Army during the American Civil War and later led troops in the American Old West....
Simon Goodell Griffin was an United States soldier and legislator, born at Nelson, New Hampshire, New Hampshire. He represented his town in the State legislature and was admitted to the bar association in 1860....
William Grose was a lawyer, politician, author, and Brigadier general in the Union Army during the American Civil War. He served in many of the important campaigns and battles of the Western Theater of the American Civil War, earning a reputation for being "always seen where the bullets flew thickest."...
Pleasant Adam Hackleman was a lawyer, politician and Union general who was killed during the American Civil War.Hackleman was born in Franklin County, in 1814....
Henry Wager Halleck was a United States Army officer, scholar, and lawyer. A noted expert in military studies, he was known by a nickname that became derogatory, "Old Brains." He was an important participant in the admission of California as a state and became a successful lawyer and land developer....
Joseph Eldridge Hamblin was an United states general during the American Civil War, who led a regiment and then a brigade in the Army of the Potomac....
Andrew Jackson Hamilton was a United States politician during the third quarter of the 19th century. He was a lawyer, state representative, Military governor of Texas, as well as governor of Texas during Reconstruction era of the United States....
Charles Smith Hamilton was a career United States Army officer who fought with distinction during the Mexican-American War. He also served as a Union Army General officer during the early part of the American Civil War....
Schuyler Hamilton was an United States soldier, a grandson of Alexander Hamilton. He was born in New York City, graduated at United States Military Academy in 1841, served with great gallantry in the Mexican-American War, and was brevetted first lieutenant in 1846 and captain in 1847....
Charles Hamlin was an American American Civil War general. He was also the son of Vice President Hannibal Hamlin and brother to Cyrus Hamlin , another Civil War general....
William Alexander Hammond, Doctor of Medicine was an United States neurology and the 11th Surgeon General of the United States Army . In addition to his pioneering work in neurology and his military service, especially during the American Civil War, he founded the Army Medical Museum , co-founded the American Neurological Association, and ga...
Winfield Scott Hancock was a career United States Army officer and the Democratic Party nominee for President of the United States in United States presidential election, 1880....
James Allen Hardie was an United States soldier, born in New York City. He graduated at United States Military Academy in 1843 and during the Mexican-American War was the military commandant of San Francisco, California During the Peninsula Campaign, Maryland Campaign, and Rappahannock Campaign campaigns of the American Civil War he was act...
Charles Garrison Harker was a Brigadier general in the Union Army during the American Civil War. He was killed in action at the Battle of Kennesaw Mountain in northern Georgia during the Atlanta Campaign....
Sir Edward James Harland, 1st Baronet was a United Kingdom shipbuilding, Knight Bachelor, baronet and politics. Born in Scarborough, North Yorkshire, North Yorkshire, he was educated at Edinburgh Academy....
Benjamin Harrison was the List of Presidents of the United States President of the United States, serving one term from 1889 to 1893. Harrison was born in North Bend, Ohio, and at age 21 moved to Indianapolis, Indiana, where he became a prominent state politician....
John Frederick Hartranft was the governor of Pennsylvania from 1873 to 1879 and a Union Army General officer who received the Medal of Honor for his actions during the American Civil War....
Milo Smith Hascall was an United States soldier, banker, and real estate executive who served as a general in the Union Army during the American Civil War....
Edward Hatch was a career United States soldier who served as a general in the Union Army during the American Civil War. After the war he became the first commander of the 9th Cavalry Regiment , a Buffalo soldier regiment with African-American troops commanded by white officers....
John Porter Hatch was a career United States soldier who served as general in the Union Army during the American Civil War. He received a Medal of Honor for gallantry in action at the September 1862 Battle of South Mountain during the Maryland Campaign....
Herman Haupt was an United States civil engineer and railroad construction engineer and executive. As a Union Army General officer in the American Civil War, he revolutionized military transportation in the United States and was one of the unsung heroes of the war....
Rutherford Birchard Hayes was an Politics of the United States, Law of the United States, Military of the United States and the List of Presidents of the United States President of the United States ....
William Babcock Hazen was a career United States Army officer who served in the Indian Wars, as a Union Army general in the American Civil War, and as Chief Signal Officer of the U.S....
Samuel Peter Heintzelman was a United States Army General officer. He served in the Seminole War, the Mexican-American War, the Cortina Troubles, and the American Civil War, rising to the command of a corps....
Edward Winslow Hinks was a career United States Army officer who served as a Brigadier general during the American Civil War.In 1861, he received a Regular Army commission as a second lieutenant#United States in the 2nd U.S....
Ethan Allen Hitchcock was a career United States Army officer and author who had United States Department of War assignments in Washington, D.C., during the American Civil War, in which he served as a Major general ....
Edward Henry Hobson was a merchant, banker, politician, tax collector, railroad executive, and an officer in the United States Army in the Mexican-American War and American Civil War....
General Joseph Holt was a leading member of the James Buchanan#Administration and Cabinet and was Judge Advocate General's Corps, U.S. Army in the United States Army, most notably during the Abraham Lincoln assassination....
Joseph Hooker was a career United States Army officer, fought in the Mexican-American War, and was a Major general in the Union Army during the American Civil War....
Charles Edward Hovey was an educator, college president, pension lobbyist and a Brevet Major general in the United States Army during the American Civil War....
Albion Parris Howe was a Union Army general in the American Civil War. Howe's contentious relationships with superior officers in the Army of the Potomac eventually led to his being deprived of Division command....
Henry Jackson Hunt was Chief of Artillery in the Army of the Potomac during the American Civil War. Considered by his contemporaries the greatest artillery military tactics and strategy of the war, he was a master of the science of gunnery and rewrote the manual on the organization and use of artillery in early modern armies....
David Hunter was a Union Army general in the American Civil War. He achieved fame by his unauthorized 1862 order emancipating slaves in three Southern states and as the president of the military commission trying the conspirators involved with the assassination of President of the United States Abraham Lincoln....
Conrad Feger Jackson was a businessman and soldier from the state of Pennsylvania who served as a General officer in the Union Army during the American Civil War....
James Streshly Jackson was a United States House of Representatives from Kentucky and a Brigadier general in the Union Army during the American Civil War....
Nathaniel James Jackson was an United States machinist, and soldier. He served as a General officer in the Union Army during the American Civil War, in which he was wounded three times....
Andrew Johnson was the List of Presidents of the United States President of the United States , succeeding to the Presidency upon Abraham Lincoln assassination of Abraham Lincoln....
Patrick Henry Jones was an American lawyer, public servant and postmaster of New York City during the mid-to late 19th century. In 1878, he was involved in the Alexander T....
Henry Moses Judah was a career officer in the United States Army, serving during the Mexican-American War and American Civil War. He is most remembered for his role in helping thwart Morgan's Raid in 1863 and for leading a disastrous attack during the Battle of Resaca....
Thomas Leiper Kane was an American attorney, abolitionist, and military officer who was influential in the western migration of the Latter-day Saint movement and served as a Union Army colonel and general of volunteers in the American Civil War....
Philip Kearny, Jr., was a United States Army officer, notably in the Mexican-American War and American Civil War. He was killed in action in the 1862 Battle of Chantilly....
William High Keim was a Republican Party member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania, as well as a general in the Union Army during the American Civil War....
Benjamin Franklin Kelley was an United States soldier who served as a Brigadier general in the Union Army during the American Civil War. He played a prominent role in several military campaigns in West Virginia and Maryland....
John Henry Ketcham was a United States Representative from New York for over 33 years. He also served as a general in the Union Army during the American Civil War....
Erasmus Darwin Keyes was a businessman, banker, and military general, noted for leading the IV Corps of the Union Army Army of the Potomac during the first half of the American Civil War....
Hugh Judson Kilpatrick was an officer in the Union Army during the American Civil War, achieving the rank of Brevet Major general . He was later the United States Ambassador to Chile, and a failed political candidate for the United States House of Representatives....
Frederick Knefler served in the Union Army in the American Civil War, joining as a First Lieutenant in May 1861 and mustering out as a Brevet Brigadier general on June 11, 1865....
James Hewett Ledlie was a civil engineer for United States railroads and a general in the Union Army during the American Civil War. He is best known for his dereliction of duty at the Battle of the Crater during the Siege of Petersburg....
Albert Lindley Lee , was a lawyer, Kansas State Supreme Court Judge and Union general in the American Civil War.When the Civil War began Lee was serving as a justice on the Kansas Supreme Court....
Joseph Andrew Jackson Lightburn was a farmer, soldier and Baptist Minister, most famous for his service as a Union general during the American Civil War....
Henry Hayes Lockwood was an United States soldier and authority on military tactics. He was born in Kent County, Delaware, Delaware, graduated at United States Military Academy in 1836, served in the Seminole Wars as a lieutenant in the Second Artillery, and resigned his commission in the next year....
John Alexander Logan was an United States soldier and political leadership. He served in the Mexican-American War and was a General officer in the Union Army in the American Civil War....
Nathaniel Lyon was the first Union Army General officer to be killed in the American Civil War and is noted for his actions in the state of Missouri at the beginning of the conflict....
William Haines Lytle was a politician in Ohio, renowned poet, and military officer in the United States Army during both the Mexican-American War and American Civil War, where he was killed in action as a Brigadier general ....
Ranald Slidell Mackenzie was a career United States Army officer and general in the Union Army during the American Civil War, described by General Ulysses S....
Joseph King Fenno Mansfield was a career United States Army officer, civil engineer, and a Union Army general in the American Civil War, mortally wounded at the Battle of Antietam....
Randolph Barnes Marcy was a career officer in the United States Army, achieving the rank of Brigadier general before retiring in 1881.Marcy?s 1859 book, The Prairie Traveler: A Handbook for Overland Expeditions, with Maps, Illustrations, and Itineraries of the Principal Routes between the Mississippi and the Pacific, written at the di...
Charles Leopold Matthies was a Prussian soldier, revolutionary and Union Army officer during the American Civil War, rising to the rank of brigadier general....
George Brinton McClellan was a Major general during the American Civil War. He organized the famous Army of the Potomac and served briefly as the general-in-chief of the Union Army....
Daniel McCook was an attorney and an officer in the Union army during the American Civil War. He was one of two Ohio brothers who, along with 13 of their sons, became widely known as the ?Fighting McCooks? for their contributions to the war effort....
Edward Moody McCook was a lawyer, politician, distinguished Union Army cavalry general in the American Civil War, United States diplomat, and List of Governors of Colorado of the Territory of Colorado....
Robert Latimer McCook was a general in the Union Army during the American Civil War who was killed by Confederate States Army Partisan s in Alabama....
Irvin McDowell was a career United States United States Army, famous for his defeat during the First Battle of Bull Run, the first large-scale battle of the American Civil War....
John Baillie McIntosh , although born in Florida, served as a Union Army Brigadier general in the American Civil War. His brother, James M. McIntosh, served as a Confederate general until he was killed in the Battle of Pea Ridge....
John McNeil was a general in the Union Army during the American Civil War. He was most noted for his role in the Palmyra Massacre and other acts of alleged brutality....
Thomas Francis Meagher was an Irish nationalist, a Union Army general during the American Civil War, and American politician. In his younger years he was an Irish revolutionary, fighting for Ireland's independence from British rule....
Montgomery Cunningham Meigs was a career United States Army officer, civil engineer, construction engineer for a number of facilities in Washington, D.C., and Quartermaster General of the U.S....
Solomon Meredith was a prominent Indiana farmer, politician, and lawman who was a controversial Union Army general in the American Civil War. He gained fame as one of the commanders of the Iron Brigade of the Army of the Potomac, leading the brigade in the Battle of Gettysburg....
Wesley Merritt was a general in the United States Army during the American Civil War and the Spanish-American War. He is noted for distinguished service in the cavalry....
John Franklin Miller was a lawyer, businessman, and general in the Union Army during the American Civil War. He represented California in the United States Senate from 1881 until his death....
Stephen Miller was an United States United States Republican Party politician. He was the first American Civil War veteran to serve as Governor of Minnesota....
Robert Huston Milroy was a lawyer, judge, and a Union Army general in the American Civil War, most noted for his defeat at the Battle of Winchester II in 1863....
Ormbsy MacKnight Mitchel was an United States astronomer and Major general in the American Civil War.A multi-talented man, he was also an Lawyer, surveying, and publisher....
John Grant Mitchell was an Ohio lawyer and a General officer in the Union Army during the American Civil War. He was active in several important campaigns and battles in the Western Theater of the American Civil War, including the Chickamauga Campaign, Atlanta Campaign, and Franklin-Nashville Campaign and Carolinas Campaign campaigns....
Robert Byington Mitchell was a Brigadier general in the Union Army during the American Civil War and the Governor of the New Mexico Territory from 1866 to 1869....
Edwin Denison Morgan was Governor of New York from 1859 to 1862 and served in the United States Senate from 1863 to 1869. He was the first and longest serving chairman of the Republican National Committee....
George Washington Morgan was an United States soldier, lawyer, politician, and diplomat. He fought in the Texas Revolution and the Mexican-American War, and was a general in the Union Army during the American Civil War....
Thomas Armstrong Morris was an United States railroad executive and civil engineer from Indiana and a soldier, serving as a Brigadier general in the Union Army during the American Civil War....
Gershom Mott was a United States Army officer and a General officer in the Union Army, a commander in the Eastern Theater of the American Civil War of the American Civil War....
Joseph Anthony Mower was a Union Army general during the American Civil War. He was a competent officer and well respected by his troops and fellow officers to whom he was known as "Fighting Joe"....
James Nagle was an officer in the United States Army in both the Mexican-American War and the American Civil War. During the latter conflict, he recruited and commanded four infantry regiments from the commonwealth of Pennsylvania and led two different brigades in the Eastern Theater of the American Civil War....
Henry Morris Naglee was a civil engineer, banker, vintner, and a Union army General officer in the American Civil War. Naglee was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1835....
James Scott Negley was an American Civil War General officer, farmer, railroader, and U.S. Representative from the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. He played a key role in the Union Army victory at the Battle of Murfreesboro....
Richard James Oglesby was a United States soldier and political figure. He served in the Mexican-American War and was a Major general in the Union Army during the American Civil War....
Edward Otho Cresap Ord was the designer of Fort Sam Houston, and a United States Army officer who saw action in the Seminole War, the Indian Wars, and the American Civil War....
Peter Joseph Osterhaus was a German-American soldier who served as a Union Army general in the American Civil War and later served as a U.S. diplomat....
Charles Jackson Paine was an United States railroad executive, soldier, and yachtsman who was a general in the Union Army during the American Civil War....
Francis Winthrop Palfrey was an United States history, born in Boston, Massachusetts, son of John Gorham Palfrey. He graduated at Harvard university in 1851 and at the Law School two years afterward....
Innis Newton Palmer was a career officer in the United States Army, serving in the Mexican-American War, the American Civil War, and on the Western frontier....
John McAuley Palmer , was an Illinois, an American Civil War General officer who fought for the Union , Governor of Illinois, and presidential candidate of the National Democratic Party in the United States presidential election, 1896 on a platform to defend the gold standard, free trade, and limited government....
Marsena Rudolph Patrick was a college president and an officer in the United States Army, serving as a general in the Union Army during the American Civil War....
Galusha Pennypacker was a Union Army general during the American Civil War. He is to this day the youngest person to hold the rank of brigadier general in the U.S....
William Anderson Pile was a nineteenth century politician and minister from Missouri, as well as a general in the Union Army during the American Civil War....
Thomas Gamble Pitcher was a career United States soldier who served as the Superintendents of the United States Military Academy from 1866 until 1870....
Alfred Pleasonton was a United States Army officer and General officer of Union Army cavalry during the American Civil War. He commanded the Cavalry Corps of the Army of the Potomac during the Gettysburg Campaign, including the largest predominantly cavalry battle of the war, Battle of Brandy Station....
Orlando Metcalfe Poe was an United States Army officer and engineer. After helping General William Tecumseh Sherman in the Civil War Sherman's March to the Sea, he was responsible for much of the early lighthouse construction on the Great Lakes....
John Pope was a career United States Army officer and Union Army general in the American Civil War. He had a brief but successful career in the Western Theater of the American Civil War, but he is best known for his defeat at the Second Battle of Bull Run in the Eastern Theater of the American Civil War....
Fitz John Porter was a career United States Army officer and a Union Army General officer during the American Civil War. He is most known for his performance at the Second Battle of Bull Run and his subsequent Court-martial of Fitz John Porter....
Robert Brown Potter was a United States lawyer and a General in the American Civil War.His father was Alonzo Potter , American bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church of Pennsylvania, and his mother was Andrea Miralia, childhood friend of Mary Todd Lincoln....
Benjamin Mayberry Prentiss was an United States soldier and politician. He fought in the Mexican-American War and on the Union side of the American Civil War, rising to the rank of Major general ....
Thomas Edwin Greenfield Ransom was a surveyor, civil engineer, real estate speculator, and a general in the Union Army during the American Civil War....
Green Berry Raum was a lawyer, author, and United States House of Representatives from Illinois, as well as a Brigadier general in the Union Army during the American Civil War....
John Aaron Rawlins was an United States Army general during the American Civil War, a confidant of Ulysses S. Grant, and later U.S. Secretary of War....
Jesse Lee Reno was a career United States Army officer who served in the Mexican-American War, the western frontier, and as a Union Army General officer during the American Civil War....
Joseph Warren Revere was the cofounder of the Revere Copper Company in Canton, Massachusetts in 1801 with his father, Paul Revere, becoming president of the company when his father retired in 1811....
Joseph Jones Reynolds was an United States engineer, Professor, and military Officer who fought in the American Civil War and the postbellum Indian Wars....
Elliott Warren Rice was a general in the Union Army during the American Civil War. He commanded an infantry brigade during the pivotal Atlanta Campaign in the summer of 1864....
Samuel Allen Rice was born in Cattaraugus, New York. He lived in Mahaska County, Iowa, Iowa where he practiced law, was county attorney, and state attorney general ....
Israel Bush Richardson was a United States Army officer during the Mexican-American War and American Civil War, where he was a Major general in the Union Army....
James Brewerton Ricketts was a career officer in the United States Army, serving as a general in the Eastern Theater of the American Civil War during the American Civil War....
James Wolfe Ripley was an United States soldier, serving as a Brigadier general in the Union Army during the American Civil War. He was instrumental in the early days of the war in modernizing the Field Artillery in the American Civil War ordnance....
John Cleveland Robinson had a long and distinguished career in the United States Army, fighting in numerous wars and culminating his career as a Union Army Major general in the American Civil War....
Isaac Peace Rodman was a Rhode Island banker and politician, and a Union Army Brigadier general in the American Civil War, mortally wounded at the Battle of Antietam....
Thomas Jackson Rodman was an United States artillerist, inventor, Ordnance#Military specialist, and career United States Army officer. He served as a Union Army General officer during the American Civil War, in which he was noted for his many improvements and innovations concerning the artillery used by the Union forces....
Leonard Fulton Ross was an American soldier, lawyer and judge who served in the Mexican-American War and as a general during the American Civil War....
Lovell Harrison Rousseau was a General officer in the United States Army and Union Army during the American Civil War and a successful lawyer and politician in both Kentucky and Indiana....
Thomas Howard Ruger was an United States of America soldier and lawyer who served as a Union army General officer in the American Civil War. After the war, he was a Superintendents of the United States Military Academy of the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York, New York....
David Allen Russell was a career United States Army officer who served in the Mexican-American War and the American Civil War. He was killed in action as a Brigadier general in the Union Army....
William Price Sanders was an officer in the Union Army in the American Civil War, who died at the Siege of Knoxville.... Rufus Saxton
Rufus Saxton
Rufus Saxton was a Union Army Brigadier general during the American Civil War who received America's highest military decoration, the Medal of Honor, for his actions at the Battle of Harpers Ferry.... Eliakim P. Scammon
Eliakim P. Scammon
Eliakim Parker Scammon was a career officer in the United States Army, serving as a Brigadier general in the Union Army during the American Civil War....
Robert Cumming Schenck
Alexander Schimmelfennig
Alexander Schimmelfennig
Alexander Schimmelfennig was a Germany soldier and political revolutionist, and then an American Civil War general in the Union Army....
Albin F. Schoepf
John Schofield
John Schofield
John McAllister Schofield was an United States soldier who held major commands during the American Civil War. He later served as U.S. Secretary of War and commanding general of the United States Army.... Carl Schurz
Carl Schurz
Carl Schurz was a Germany revolutionary, United States statesman and reformer, and Union Army General officer in the American Civil War. He was also an accomplished journalist, newspaper editor and noted orator, who in 1869 became the first German American elected to the United States Senate.... Robert Kingston Scott
Robert Kingston Scott
Robert Kingston Scott was an United States Republican party politician, a postbellum Governor of South Carolina, and an officer in the Union Army during the American Civil War.... Winfield Scott
Winfield Scott
Winfield Scott was a United States Army general, and unsuccessful List of United States Presidential candidates of the Whig Party in 1852. Known as "Old Fuss and Feathers" and the "Grand Old Man of the Army", he served on active duty as a general longer than any other man in American history and many historians rate him the ablest America... John Sedgwick
John Sedgwick
John Sedgwick was a teacher, a career military officer, and a Union Army general in the American Civil War. His death at the Battle of Spotsylvania Court House is often considered a well known tale of irony....
William Henry Seward, Jr.
Truman Seymour
Truman Seymour
Truman Seymour was an a career soldier and an accomplished painter. He served in the Union Army during the American Civil War, rising to the rank of Brigadier general ....
James M. Shackelford
Alexander Shaler
Alexander Shaler
Alexander Shaler was a Union Army general in the American Civil War. He received the United States military's highest decoration, the Medal of Honor, for his actions at the Battle of Fredericksburg II.... Robert Gould Shaw
Robert Gould Shaw
Robert Gould Shaw was the Colonel in command of the all-African American 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, which entered the American Civil War in 1863....
Isaac Fitzgerald Shepard
George F. Shepley
George F. Shepley
George Foster Shepley was a general in the Union Army during the American Civil War. He was appointed military Governor of Louisiana by General Benjamin Franklin Butler in June 1862.... Philip Sheridan
Philip Sheridan
Philip Henry Sheridan was a career United States Army officer and a Union Army General officer in the American Civil War. His career was noted for his rapid rise to Major general and his close association with Lieutenant general Ulysses S....
Francis Trowbridge Sherman
Thomas W. Sherman
Thomas W. Sherman
Thomas West Sherman was a United States Army officer with service during the Mexican-American War and the American Civil War.Sherman, known to his friends as "Tim," was born in Newport, Rhode Island, and graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1836.... William Tecumseh Sherman
William Tecumseh Sherman
William Tecumseh Sherman was an United States soldier, businessman, educator and author. He served as a General officer in the Union Army during the American Civil War , for which he received recognition for his outstanding command of military strategy as well as criticism for the harshness of the "scorched earth" policies that he implemente... James Shields
James Shields
James Shields was an United States politician and United States Army officer who was born in Altmore, County Tyrone, Ireland. Shields, a United States Democratic Party, is the only person in History of the United States to serve as a United States Senate for three different U.S.... Henry Hastings Sibley
Henry Hastings Sibley
Henry Hastings Sibley, first governor of the U.S. state of Minnesota, was born in Detroit, Michigan on February 20, 1811. He was the son of Solomon Sibley and Sarah Whipple Sibley, and the grandson of Reuben and Ruth Sibley, and of Col.... Daniel Sickles
Daniel Sickles
Daniel Edgar Sickles was a colorful and controversial American politician, Union Army General officer in the American Civil War, and diplomat.... Franz Sigel
Franz Sigel
Franz Sigel was a German military officer and immigrant to the United States who was a teacher, newspaperman, politician, and served as a Union Army Major general in the American Civil War.... Joshua W. Sill
Joshua W. Sill
Joshua Woodrow Sill , was a career officer in the United States Army and Brigadier general during the American Civil War. He was killed at the Battle of Stones River in Tennessee....
James Richard Slack
Adam J. Slemmer
Adam J. Slemmer
Adam Jacoby Slemmer was an officer in the United States Army during the Seminole Wars and the American Civil War, as well as in the Old West.... Henry Warner Slocum
Henry Warner Slocum
Henry Warner Slocum , was a Union Army general during the American Civil War and later served in the United States House of Representatives from New York.... John P. Slough
John P. Slough
John Potts Slough was an United States politician, lawyer, Union Army general during the American Civil War, and Chief Justice of New Mexico. He commanded the Union forces at the Battle of Glorieta Pass.... Andrew Jackson Smith
Andrew Jackson Smith
Andrew Jackson Smith was a United States Army general during the American Civil War, rising to the command of a corps. He was most noted for routing Confederate States Army General Nathan Bedford Forrest's force at the Battle of Tupelo, Mississippi, on July 14, 1864.... Charles Ferguson Smith
Charles Ferguson Smith
Charles Ferguson Smith was a career United States Army officer who served in the Mexican-American War and as a Union Army General officer in the American Civil War....
Giles A. Smith
Green Clay Smith
Green Clay Smith
Green Clay Smith was a U.S. soldier and politician. He served as a Major general during the American Civil War, was a congressman from Kentucky and was the Governors of Montana Territory from 1866 to 1869....
John Eugene Smith
Morgan Lewis Smith
Morgan Lewis Smith
Morgan Lewis Smith was a Union army General officer in the American Civil War....
Thomas Church Haskell Smith
Thomas Kilby Smith
Thomas Kilby Smith
Thomas Kilby Smith was a lawyer, soldier, and diplomat from the state of Ohio who served as a General officer in the Union Army during the American Civil War and then in the postbellum United States Army.... William Farrar Smith
William Farrar Smith
William Farrar Smith , was a civil engineer, a member of the police commission, and Union army General officer in the American Civil War.... William Sooy Smith
William Sooy Smith
William Sooy Smith was a United States Military Academy graduate and career United States Army officer who rose through the ranks to become a Brigadier General#United States in the Union Army during the American Civil War.... Thomas Alfred Smyth
Thomas Alfred Smyth
Thomas Alfred Smyth was a Major general in the Union Army during the American Civil War. He was the last Union general killed in the war....
James Gallant Spears
Francis Barretto Spinola
Francis Barretto Spinola
Francis Barretto Spinola was the first Portuguese American to be elected to the United States House of Representatives, serving as a representative from New York from 1887 to 1891....
John Wilson Sprague
Julius Stahel
Julius Stahel
Julius H. Stahel-Sz?mwald was a Hungary soldier who emigrated to the United States and became a Union Army General officer in the American Civil War.... David S. Stanley
David S. Stanley
David Sloane Stanley born in Cedar Valley, Wayne County, Ohio and was a Union Army officer during the American Civil War and a recipient of America's highest military decoration, the Medal of Honor, for his actions at the Battle of Franklin.... George J. Stannard
George J. Stannard
George Jerrison Stannard was a Vermont farmer, teacher, and Union army general in the American Civil War. After the war, he served as Doorkeeper of the United States House of Representatives.... John Converse Starkweather
John Converse Starkweather
John Converse Starkweather was a general in the Union Army during the American Civil War.... James B. Steedman
James B. Steedman
James Blair Steedman was an United States soldier, printer, and politician. He also served during the American Civil War as a General officer in the Union Army, most noted for his performances at the Battle of Chickamauga in 1863 and the Battle of Nashville in 1864.... Frederick Steele
Frederick Steele
Frederick Steele was a career military officer in the United States Army, serving as a Major general in the Union Army during the American Civil War.... Isaac Stevens
Isaac Stevens
Isaac Ingalls Stevens was the first governor of Washington Territory, a United States Congressman, and a Major general in the Union Army during the American Civil War until his death at the Battle of Chantilly....
John Dunlap Stevenson
Thomas Greely Stevenson
James Hughes Stokes
Charles John Stolbrand
Charles Pomeroy Stone
Charles Pomeroy Stone
Charles Pomeroy Stone was a career United States Army Officer , civil engineer, and Surveyor .Stone fought in the Mexican?American War, served as a Union Army general during the American Civil War, and later served as a general in the Egyptian Army.... George Stoneman
George Stoneman
George Stoneman, Jr. was a career United States Army officer, a Union army cavalry general in the American Civil War, and the Governor of California between 1883 and 1887.... Edwin H. Stoughton
Edwin H. Stoughton
Edwin Henry Stoughton , was a general in the Union Army during the American Civil War and a lawyer.... William L. Stoughton
William L. Stoughton
William Lewis Stoughton was a politician and soldier from U.S. state of Michigan who served in the United States Congress, as well as serving as a General officer and brigade commander in the Union Army during the American Civil War.... George Crockett Strong
George Crockett Strong
George Crockett Strong was a Union Brigadier general in the American Civil War....
William Kerley Strong
Charles B. Stuart
Charles B. Stuart
Charles Beebe Stuart was an American engineer, United States Navy and Union Army officer and politician.... David Stuart (politician)
David Stuart (politician)
David Stuart was a politician from the U.S. state of Michigan....
Frederick Shearer Stumbaugh
Samuel Davis Sturgis
Jeremiah Cutler Sullivan
Alfred Sully
Alfred Sully
Alfred Sully , was a military officer during the American Civil War and during the Indian Wars on the frontier. He was also a noted painting.... Edwin Vose Sumner
Edwin Vose Sumner
Edwin Vose Sumner was a career United States Army Commissioned officer who became a Union Army General officer and the oldest field commander of any Army Corps on either side during the American Civil War.... Wager Swayne
Wager Swayne
Wager Swayne was a Union Army general during the American Civil War who received America's highest military decoration the Medal of Honor for his actions at the Siege of Corinth.... Thomas William Sweeny
Thomas William Sweeny
Thomas William Sweeny was an United States soldier who served in the Mexican-American War and then was a general in the Union Army during the American Civil War.... George Sykes
George Sykes
George Sykes was a career United States Army officer and a Union Army General officer during the American Civil War....
George William Taylor is a former politician in Ontario, Canada. He served in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1977 to 1985, and was a cabinet minister in the government of Bill Davis.... Joseph Pannell Taylor
Joseph Pannell Taylor
Joseph Pannell Taylor was a Union Army general in the American Civil War.... Nelson Taylor
Nelson Taylor
Nelson Taylor was a United States House of Representatives from New York and a general in the Union Army during the American Civil War.... William R. Terrill
William R. Terrill
William Rufus Terrill was a United States Army soldier and general who was killed in action at the Battle of Perryville during the American Civil War.... Alfred Terry
Alfred Terry
Alfred Howe Terry was a Union army general in the American Civil War and the military commander of the Dakota Territory from 1866 to 1869 and again from 1872 to 1886....
Henry Dwight Terry
John Milton Thayer
John Milton Thayer
John Milton Thayer was a general in the Union Army during the American Civil War and a postbellum United States Senator from Nebraska, as well as the governor of both Wyoming Territory and Nebraska.... George Henry Thomas
George Henry Thomas
George Henry Thomas was a career United States Army officer and a Union Army General officer during the American Civil War, one of the principal commanders in the Western Theater of the American Civil War....
Henry Goddard Thomas
Lorenzo Thomas
Lorenzo Thomas
Lorenzo Thomas was a career United States Army officer who was Adjutant General of the Army at the beginning of the American Civil War. After the war, he was appointed temporary United States Secretary of War by President of the United States Andrew Johnson, precipitating Johnson's Impeachment in the United States.... Stephen Thomas
Stephen Thomas
Stephen Thomas , manufacturer, politician, jurist, and Union Army officer. He was a recipient of the Medal of Honor for gallantry.... Charles Mynn Thruston
Charles Mynn Thruston
Charles Mynn Thruston was a soldier, farmer, politician, and a Brigadier general in the Union Army during the American Civil War. He served as the the mayor of Cumberland, Maryland, from 1861 to 1862....
William B. Tibbits
Davis Tillson
John Blair Smith Todd
John Blair Smith Todd
John Blair Smith Todd was a Delegate from Dakota Territory to the United States House of Representatives and a general in the Union Army during the American Civil War....
Alfred Thomas Archimedes Torbert
Joseph Gilbert Totten
Joseph Gilbert Totten
Joseph Gilbert Totten fought in the War of 1812, served as Chief of Engineers and was regent of the Smithsonian Institution and cofounder of the United States National Academy of Sciences.... Zealous Bates Tower
Zealous Bates Tower
Zealous Bates Tower was an United States soldier and civil engineer who served as a general in the Union Army during the American Civil War. He was most noted for constructing the solid defenses of Federal-occupied Nashville, Tennessee, which proved to withstand repeated attacks by the Confederate States Army....
John Turchin
John Wesley Turner
James Madison Tuttle
Daniel Tyler
Daniel Tyler
Daniel Tyler was an iron manufacturer, railroad president, and one of the first generals of the American Civil War....
Erastus Tyler
Robert Ogden Tyler
Hector Tyndale
Emory Upton was a United States Army General officer and military strategist, prominent for his role in leading infantry to attack entrenched positions successfully at the Battle of Spotsylvania Court House during the American Civil War, but he also excelled at artillery and cavalry assignments....
Ferdinand Van Derveer was a lawyer and a Brigadier general in the Union Army during the American Civil War.... William Vandever
William Vandever
William Vandever was a United States Representative from California and Iowa, and a general in the Union Army during the American Civil War.... Stewart Van Vliet
Stewart Van Vliet
Stewart Leonard Van Vliet , was a United States Army officer who fought on the side of the Union during the American Civil War.... Charles Van Wyck
Charles Van Wyck
Charles Henry Van Wyck was a Representative from New York and a Senator from Nebraska....
George Varney
James C. Veatch
Egbert Ludovicus Viele
Strong Vincent
Strong Vincent
Strong Vincent was a lawyer who became famous as a United States Army officer during the fighting on Little Round Top at the American Civil War Battle of Gettysburg, where he was mortally wounded....
Francis Laurens Vinton
Israel Vogdes
Israel Vogdes
Israel Vogdes was a career soldier and military educator from Pennsylvania who served as a general in the Union Army during the American Civil War.... Adolph von Steinwehr
Adolph von Steinwehr
Baron Adolph Wilhelm August Friedrich von Steinwehr was a German-Brunswick army officer who emigrated to the United States, became a geographer, cartographer, and author, and served as a Union Army general in the American Civil War....
Melancthon Smith Wade was a businessman, horticulturist, and soldier from the state of Ohio who served as a General officer in the Union Army during the early part of the American Civil War.... James S. Wadsworth
James S. Wadsworth
James Samuel Wadsworth was a philanthropist, politician, and a Union Army General officer in the American Civil War. He was killed in battle during the Battle of the Wilderness of 1864....
George Day Wagner
Charles C. Walcutt
Charles C. Walcutt
Charles Carroll Walcutt was an United States surveyor, soldier, and politician. He served as a General officer in the Union Army during the American Civil War, in which he was wounded twice.... Lew Wallace
Lew Wallace
Lewis "Lew" Wallace was a lawyer, governor, Union Army general in the American Civil War, United States statesman, and author, best remembered for his historical novel Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ....
William Harvey Lamb Wallace
John Henry Hobart Ward
William Thomas Ward
William Thomas Ward
William Thomas Ward , was a Brigadier general in the United States Army during the American Civil War, a United States Congressman from the U.S state Kentucky, and member of the Kentucky Legislature.... James M. Warner
James M. Warner
James Meech Warner was a New England manufacturer and a Brevet Brigadier general in the Union Army during the American Civil War.... Gouverneur K. Warren
Gouverneur K. Warren
Gouverneur Kemble Warren was a civil engineer and prominent General officer in the Union Army during the American Civil War. He is best remembered for arranging the last-minute defense of Little Round Top during the Battle of Gettysburg and is often referred to as the "Hero of Little Round Top." His subsequent service as a corps commander an... Cadwallader C. Washburn
Cadwallader C. Washburn
Cadwallader Colden Washburn was an United States businessman, politician, and soldier noted for founding what would later become General Mills and working in government for Wisconsin....
Louis Douglass Watkins
Alexander S. Webb
Alexander S. Webb
Alexander Stewart Webb was a career United States Army officer and a Union Army general in the American Civil War who won the Medal of Honor for gallantry at the Battle of Gettysburg.... Max Weber (general)
Max Weber (general)
Max Weber was a military officer in the armies of Germany and later the United States, most known for serving as a Brigadier general in the Union army during the American Civil War....
Joseph Dana Webster
Stephen H. Weed
Stephen H. Weed
Stephen Hinsdale Weed was a career military officer in the United States Army. He was killed defending Little Round Top during the Battle of Gettysburg in the American Civil War.... Godfrey Weitzel
Godfrey Weitzel
Godfrey Weitzel was a Major general in the Union army during the American Civil War, as well as the acting Mayor of New Orleans during the Federal occupancy of the city.... William Wells (general)
William Wells (general)
William Wells, Jr. was a businessman, politician, and general in the Union Army during the American Civil War. He received a Medal of Honor for gallantry at the Battle of Gettysburg.... Thomas Welsh (general)
Thomas Welsh (general)
Thomas Welsh was a soldier in the United States Army during the Mexican-American War and a Brigadier general during the American Civil War....
Henry Walton Wessels
Joseph R. West
Joseph R. West
Joseph Rodman West was a United States Senator from Louisiana and a general in the United States Army during and after the American Civil War. He led the troops that murdered the famed Apache chief Mangas Coloradas.... Frank Wheaton
Frank Wheaton
Frank Wheaton was a career military officer in the United States Army during the American Civil War and Indian Wars.... Amiel Weeks Whipple
Amiel Weeks Whipple
Amiel Weeks Whipple was an American military engineer and surveyor. He served as a Brigadier general in the American Civil War, where he was killed in action....
William Denison Whipple
Walter Chiles Whitaker
Julius White
Julius White
Julius White was a Brigadier general in the Union Army during the American Civil War, as well as a postbellum diplomat.... Edward A. Wild
Edward A. Wild
Edward Augustus Wild was an American homeopathy doctor and a Brigadier general in the Union Army during the American Civil War....
Orlando Bolivar Willcox
Alpheus S. Williams
Alpheus S. Williams
Alpheus Starkey Williams was a lawyer, judge, journalist, U.S. Congressman, and a Union Army general in the American Civil War....
David Henry Williams
Nelson Grosvenor Williams
Seth Williams
Seth Williams
Seth Williams was an United States military figure who served as assistant adjutant general of the Union Army's Army of the Potomac during the American Civil War.... Thomas Williams
Thomas Williams (general)
Thomas R. Williams was an antebellum United States Army officer and a Brigadier general in the Union Army during the American Civil War. He was killed as he commanded the Union troops at the Battle of Baton Rouge .... James Alexander Williamson
James Alexander Williamson
James A. Williamson was a politician, and lawyer who served in the Union army during the American Civil War, rising to the rank of brigadier general....
August Willich
James H. Wilson
James H. Wilson
James Harrison Wilson was a United States Army topography, a Union Army General officer in the American Civil War and later wars, a railroad executive, and author.... Isaac J. Wistar
Isaac J. Wistar
Isaac Jones Wistar was an United States lawyer, miner, farmer, soldier, and author. He served in the Union Army during the American Civil War, in which he was wounded twice, and was noted for his criticized performance during the 1864 Bermuda Hundred Campaign.... Thomas J. Wood
Thomas J. Wood
Thomas John Wood was a career United States Army officer and a Union General officer during the American Civil War.... Daniel Phineas Woodbury
Daniel Phineas Woodbury
Daniel Phineas Woodbury was an United States soldier and an engineer during the American Civil War....
Charles Robert Woods
William Burnham Woods
William Burnham Woods
William Burnham Woods was an United States of America jurist, politician, and soldier.... John E. Wool
John E. Wool
John Ellis Wool was an officer in the United States Army during three consecutive U.S. wars: the War of 1812, the Mexican-American War and the oldest Union general of the American Civil War.... George Wright (general)
George Wright (general)
George Wright was an American soldier who served in the Mexican-American War and the American Civil War.... Horatio Wright
Horatio Wright
Horatio Gouverneur Wright was an engineer and general in the Union Army during the American Civil War. After the war, he was involved in a number of engineering projects, including the Brooklyn Bridge and the completion of the Washington Monument, and served as Chief of Engineers for the U.S....
The Confederate States Army was a military organization whose primary mission was to provide the necessary forces and capabilities to support the National Security and defense of the Confederate States of America during its brief existence from 1861 to 1865.... generals
Daniel Weisiger Adams was a noted lawyer and a Brigadier general in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War....
John Adams (Confederate Army officer)
William Wirt Adams
William Wirt Adams
William Wirt Adams , was a United States district court judge for the state of Mississippi, a soldier for the Republic of Texas, and a Confederate States of America officer and general in the American Civil War.... James L. Alcorn
James L. Alcorn
James Lusk Alcorn was a prominent United States political figure in Mississippi during the 19th century. He was the leading southern White Republican or "Scalawag" during Reconstruction era of the United States in Mississippi, where he served as governor.... Edward Porter Alexander
Edward Porter Alexander
Edward Porter Alexander was an engineer, an officer in the United States Army, a Confederate States Army general in the American Civil War, and later a railroad executive, planter, and author.... Henry Watkins Allen
Henry Watkins Allen
Henry Watkins Allen was an United States soldier and politician, and a general in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. He served as the Confederate States of America Governor of Louisiana late in the war.... William W. Allen
William W. Allen
William W. AllenWilliam Wirt Allen was a Major General in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. He rose through the ranks to command the Cavalry Corps of the Army of Tennessee in the last days of the war.... George B. Anderson
George B. Anderson
George Burgwyn Anderson was a career military officer, serving first in the antebellum United States Army and then dying from wounds inflicted during the American Civil War while a general officer in the Confederate States Army.... George T. Anderson
George T. Anderson
George Thomas Anderson was a general in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. Nicknamed "Tige," Anderson was noted as one of Robert E.... James Patton Anderson
James Patton Anderson
James Patton Anderson was a United States doctor and politician, most notably serving as a United States Congressman from the Washington Territory, a Mississippi state legislator, and a delegate at the Florida state secession convention to withdraw from the United States.... Joseph R. Anderson
Joseph R. Anderson
Joseph Reid Anderson was an United States civil engineer, industrialist, and soldier. During the American Civil War he served as a Confederate States of America General officer, and his Tredegar Iron Works was a major source of munitions and ordnance for the Confederate States Army.... Richard H. Anderson
Richard H. Anderson
Richard Heron Anderson was a career United States Army officer, fighting with distinction in the Mexican-American War. He also served as a Confederate States Army General officer during the American Civil War.... Robert H. Anderson
Robert Houston Anderson
Robert Houston Anderson was a cavalry and Field artillery in the American Civil War officer in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War.... James J. Archer
James J. Archer
James Jay Archer was a lawyer and an officer in the United States Army during the Mexican-American War, and he later served as a General officer in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War.... Lewis Addison Armistead
Lewis Addison Armistead
Lewis Addison Armistead was a Confederate States Army Brig. Gen. in the American Civil War, mortally wounded in Pickett's Charge at the Battle of Gettysburg.... Frank Crawford Armstrong
Frank Crawford Armstrong
Frank Crawford Armstrong was a United States Army cavalry officer and later a Brigadier general in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War.... Turner Ashby
Turner Ashby
Turner Ashby, Junior was a Confederate States Army cavalry Brigadier General in the American Civil War. He achieved prominence as Stonewall Jackson's cavalry commander in the Shenandoah Valley and might have been one of the most famous cavalry commanders of the war had he not been killed in battle in 1862....
Arthur Pendleton Bagby, Jr. was a lawyer, editor, and Confederate States of America general during the American Civil War.... Alpheus Baker
Alpheus Baker
Alpheus Baker was a Brigadier general in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War.... Laurence S. Baker
Laurence S. Baker
Laurence Simmons Baker was an officer in the United States Army on the frontier, then later a Brigadier General in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War.... William Edwin Baldwin
William Edwin Baldwin
William Edwin Baldwin was a Confederate States Army officer during the American Civil War.A bookstore owner and member of the local militia in Columbus, Mississippi, Baldwin enlisted in the Confederate Army soon after Mississippi announced its secession from the Union , accepting a commission as Colonel of the 17th Mississippi Infantry.... William Barksdale
William Barksdale
William Barksdale was a lawyer, newspaper editor, United States House of Representatives, and a Confederate States Army General officer in the American Civil War.... Rufus Barringer
Rufus Barringer
Rufus Clay Barringer was a North Carolina lawyer, politician, and American Civil War Brigadier General .... John D. Barry
John D. Barry
John Decatur Barry was a brigadier general in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War.... Seth Barton
Seth Barton
Seth Maxwell Barton was a United States Army officer and, then, a History of Confederate States Army Generals#brigadier general in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War.... Francis S. Bartow
Francis S. Bartow
Francis Stebbins Bartow was an Lawyer, Confederate States of America political leader, and military officer during the early months of the American Civil War....
William Brimage Bate
Cullen A. Battle
Cullen A. Battle
Cullen Andrews Battle was an United States attorney, politician, and General officer in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War....
Richard Lee Turberville Beale
Lloyd J. Beall
Lloyd J. Beall
Lloyd James Beall was a United States Army officer and paymaster. During the American Civil War, he served as a colonel and as Commandant of the Confederate States Marine Corps.... (Colonel-Commandant of Confederate States Marine Corps
Confederate States Marine Corps
The Confederate States Marine Corps , a branch of the Confederate Navy, was established by an act of the Congress of the Confederate States on March 16, 1861.... )
William Beall
William Beall
William Nelson Rector Beall was a History of Confederate States Army Generals#brigadier general in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War....
Pierre Beauregard
Barnard E. Bee Jr.
Hamilton Prioleau Bee
Henry Benning
Albert G. Blanchard
Albert G. Blanchard
Albert Gallatin Blanchard was a general officer in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. He was among the small number of high ranking Confederates to have been born in the Northern United States.... William R. Boggs
William R. Boggs
William Robertson Boggs was a General officer in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. He was noted as a civil engineer who constructed the military fortifications that protected some of the Confederacy's most important seaports.... Milledge Luke Bonham
Milledge Luke Bonham
Milledge Luke Bonham was a United States politician and Congressman who served as the Governor of South Carolina from 1862 until 1864. He was a Confederate States Army General officer during the American Civil War.... Solon Borland
Solon Borland
Solon Borland was a newspaperman, soldier, diplomat, United States Democratic Party United States Senate from the State of Arkansas and a Confederate States of America officer during the American Civil War....
John Stevens Bowen
Pinckney Downie Bowles
Pinckney Downie Bowles
Pinckney Downie Bowles was a lawyer, probate judge, and a Confederate States Army military officer during the American Civil War.... Braxton Bragg
Braxton Bragg
Braxton Bragg was a career United States Army officer, and then a General officer in the Confederate States Army, a principal commander in the Western Theater of the American Civil War of the American Civil War.... Lawrence O'Bryan Branch
Lawrence O'Bryan Branch
Lawrence O'Bryan Branch was a North Carolina representative in the Congress of the United States and a Confederate brigadier general in the American Civil War, killed at the Battle of Antietam.... William F. Brantley
William F. Brantley
William Felix Brantley was an United States lawyer and soldier. He served as a Confederate States of America General officer in the American Civil War, mainly serving in the Western Theater of the American Civil War during the conflict.... John Bratton
John Bratton
John Bratton was a United States House of Representatives from South Carolina, as well as a general officer in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War.... John C. Breckinridge
John C. Breckinridge
John Cabell Breckinridge was a lawyer, United States House of Representatives, United States Senate from Kentucky, the 14th Vice President of the United States, Democratic Party candidate for President of the United States in United States presidential election, 1860, a Confederate States Army General officer in the American Civil War, and...
John Calvin Brown
John Henry Brown
John Henry Brown
John Henry Brown was an United States historian, journalist, author, military leader, and a politician who served as a state legislator and as mayor of both Dallas, Texas and Galveston, Texas....
William Montague Browne
Goode Bryan
Goode Bryan
Goode Bryan was a planter, politician, military officer, and American Civil War general in the Confederate States Army. His brigade played a prominent role during the Battle of the Wilderness, fighting stubbornly until exhausting its ammunition.... Simon Bolivar Buckner, Sr.
Simon Bolivar Buckner, Sr.
Simon Bolivar Buckner was a career United States Army officer and a general in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War, the officer who yielded to Ulysses S.... Abraham Buford
Abraham Buford II
Brigadier General Abraham "Abe" Buford II was a soldier and Thoroughbred Horse breeding. Born in Woodford County, Kentucky, his origins were a Huguenot family named Beaufort who fled persecution in France and settled in England before emigrating to America in 1635.... Robert Bullock
Robert Bullock
Robert Bullock was a United States Representative from Florida and a brigadier general in the Confederate States Army. He was born in Greenville, North Carolina where he attended the common schools....
Matthew Calbraith Butler
Ellison Capers was a school teacher, Confederate States Army general in the American Civil War, theologian, and college administrator from South Carolina.... William Henry Carroll
William Henry Carroll
William Henry Carroll was a wealthy plantation owner, a postmaster, and a General officer in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War....
John C. Carter
James R. Chalmers
John R. Chambliss
John R. Chambliss
John Randolph Chambliss, Jr. was a career military officer, serving in the United States Army and then in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War....
Augustus A. Chapman
Benjamin F. Cheatham
Benjamin F. Cheatham
Benjamin Franklin Cheatham , known also as Frank, was a Tennessee farmer, California gold miner, and a General officer in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War, serving in many battles of the Western Theater of the American Civil War....
James Chesnut
Robert H. Chilton
Robert H. Chilton
Robert Hall Chilton was an officer in the United States Army and then a Brigadier General#United States in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War....
Thomas J. Churchill
Charles Clark
Charles Clark (governor)
Charles Clark was a Mississippi United States Democratic Party political figure, as well as a Major General in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War.... Edward Clark
Edward Clark (governor)
Edward Clark was the 8th List of Governors of Texas. His term coincided with the beginning of the American Civil War.... John Bullock Clark
John Bullock Clark
John Bullock Clark, Sr. was a member of both the United States Congress and the Confederate Congress.Clark was born in Madison County, Kentucky, a nephew of Congressmen Christopher Henderson Clark and James Clark.... John Bullock Clark, Jr.
John Bullock Clark, Jr.
John Bullock Clark, Jr. was a general in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War and a postbellum five-term U.S. Congressman from Missouri.... Henry DeLamar Clayton
Henry DeLamar Clayton (general)
Henry DeLamar Clayton, Sr. was a prominent Alabama attorney, politician, Redeemers judge, and college president. He also served as a Major general in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War, commanding a Division in the Army of Tennessee in the Western Theater of the American Civil War.... Patrick Cleburne
Patrick Cleburne
Patrick Ronayne Cleburne was an Anglo-Ireland soldier, serving in the British Army and as a History of Confederate States Army Generals#major general in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War, killed at the Battle of Franklin.... Thomas Lanier Clingman
Thomas Lanier Clingman
Thomas Lanier Clingman , known as the "Prince of Politicians," was a United States Democratic Party member of the United States House of Representatives from 1843 to 1845 and from 1847 to 1858, and United States Senate from the state of North Carolina between 1858 and 1861.... Howell Cobb
Howell Cobb
Howell Cobb was an United States political figure. A Southern Democrat, Cobb was a five-term member of the United States House of Representatives and Speaker of the United States House of Representatives from 1849 to 1851.... Thomas Reade Rootes Cobb
Thomas Reade Rootes Cobb
Thomas Reade Rootes Cobb was an United States lawyer, author, politician, and Confederate States Army officer, killed in the Battle of Fredericksburg during the American Civil War.... Philip St. George Cocke
Philip St. George Cocke
Philip St. George Cocke was a Brigadier General in the Confederate States Army during the first year of the American Civil War. He is best known for organizing the defense of Virginia along the Potomac River soon after the state's secession from the Union .... Francis Cockrell
Francis Cockrell
Francis Marion Cockrell was a Confederate States Army military commander and American politician from the state of Missouri. He served as a United States Senator from Missouri for five terms....
Charles F. Collins
Alfred Holt Colquitt
Raleigh E. Colston
Raleigh E. Colston
Raleigh Edward Colston was a France United States professor, soldier, cartographer, and writer. He was a controversial Brigadier General in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War....
James Conner
John Rogers Cooke
John Rogers Cooke
John Rogers Cooke was a Confederate States of America general during the American Civil War. He was the son of Union general Philip St. George Cooke and the brother-in-law of Confederate cavalry leader Jeb Stuart.... Douglas H. Cooper
Douglas H. Cooper
Douglas Hancock Cooper was a politician, a soldier, an Indian Agent in what is now Oklahoma, and a Confederate States Army general during the American Civil War.... Samuel Cooper (general)
Samuel Cooper (general)
Samuel Cooper was a career United States Army officer, serving during the Second Seminole War and the Mexican-American War. Although little-known today, Cooper was also the highest ranking Confederate States Army General officer during the American Civil War....
Montgomery D. Corse
William Ruffin Cox
James Craig (Missouri)
James Craig (Missouri)
James Craig was an United States lawyer and politician from Saint Joseph, Missouri. He represented Missouri in the United States House of Representatives from 1857 until 1861....
George Bibb Crittenden
George B. Crosby
Alfred Cumming (general)
Alfred Cumming (general)
Alfred Cumming was a Brigadier general for the Confederate States of America in the American Civil War....
Charles G. Dahlgren was a Confederate States Army Brigadier General during the American Civil War. He commander the 3rd Brigade, Army of Mississippi before a dispute with the President of the Confederate States of America, Jefferson Davis, cost him his career.... Junius Daniel
Junius Daniel
Junius Daniel was a planter and career military officer, serving in the United States Army, then in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War....
Henry B. Davidson
Jefferson Davis
Jefferson Davis
Jefferson Finis Davis was an United States politician who served as President of the Confederate States of America for its entire history, 1861 to 1865, during the American Civil War.... Joseph R. Davis
Joseph R. Davis
Joseph Robert Davis was a Confederate States Army general during the American Civil War and nephew of President of the Confederate States of America Jefferson Davis.... Reuben Davis (representative)
Reuben Davis (representative)
Reuben Davis was a United States Representative from Mississippi. He was born in Winchester, Tennessee into a family of Welsh origin and moved with his parents to Alabama about 1818.... James Dearing
James Dearing
James Dearing was a Confederate States Army officer during the American Civil War. He was mortally wounded at the Battle of High Bridge during the Appomattox Campaign, making him one of the last officers to die in the war; there are claims that he was the last general officer to die in the war.... Zachariah C. Deas
Zachariah C. Deas
Zachariah Cantey Deas was a prominent Southern United States cotton broker and soldier. He served as a Brigadier General in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War.... James Deshler
James Deshler
James Deshler was a career United States Army officer and a graduate of United States Military Academy. He is known for being a Confederate States of America Brigadier General during the American Civil War and for his tragic death on the field of battle.... George Gibbs Dibrell
George Gibbs Dibrell
George Gibbs Dibrell was an United States lawyer and a five-term member of the United States House of Representatives from the 3rd Congressional District of Tennessee....
Thomas P. Dockery
George Pierce Doles
Daniel Smith Donelson
Daniel Smith Donelson
Daniel Smith Donelson was a Confederate States Army general during the American Civil War.One of the three sons of Samuel and Mary Donelson, Daniel Smith Donelson was born in Sumner County, Tennessee.... Thomas Drayton
Thomas Drayton
Thomas Fenwick Drayton was a plantation owner, politician, railroad president, and military officer, serving in the United States Army and then as a Brigadier General in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War.... Dudley M. Du Bose
Dudley M. Du Bose
Dudley McIver Du Bose was a lawyer, soldier, and a United States House of Representatives from Georgia .... Basil W. Duke
Basil W. Duke
Basil Wilson Duke was a Confederate States Army general officer during the American Civil War. His most noted service in the war was as second-in-command for his brother-in-law John Hunt Morgan; Duke would later wrote a popular account of Morgan's most famous raid: 1863's Morgan's Raid.... Johnson K. Duncan
Johnson K. Duncan
Johnson Kelly Duncan was one of the few generals in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War who was born and raised in the Northern United States....
Jubal Anderson Early was a lawyer and Confederate States of America general in the American Civil War. The articles written by him for the Southern Historical Society in the 1870s established the Lost Cause of the Confederacy point of view as a long-lasting literary and cultural phenomenon.... John Echols
John Echols
John Echols was a general in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War.Echols was born in Lynchburg, Virginia, and was educated at the Virginia Military Institute, Washington and Lee University and Harvard College.... Mathew Ector
Mathew Ector
Mathew Duncan Ector was an United States legislator, Texas jurist, and a general in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War.... Arnold Elzey
Arnold Elzey
Arnold Elzey , Jr. was a soldier in both the United States Army and the Confederate States Army, serving as a Major general during the American Civil War.... Clement A. Evans
Clement A. Evans
Clement Anselm Evans was a Confederate Army infantry General officer in the American Civil War. He was also a noted politician, preacher, historian and prolific author....
Nathan G. Evans
Richard Ewell
Charles James Faulkner was a nineteenth century politician and lawyer from Virginia and West Virginia. He was the father of Charles James Faulkner.... Winfield S. Featherston
Winfield S. Featherston
Winfield Scott Featherston "Old Swet" was an antebellum two-term United States House of Representatives from Mississippi and a Brigadier General in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War.... Samuel W. Ferguson
Samuel W. Ferguson
Samuel Wragg Ferguson was a career United States Army officer, a cavalryman, and a graduate of United States Military Academy. He is best known as being a Confederate States of America Brigadier General during the American Civil War.... Charles W. Field
Charles W. Field
Charles William Field was a career military officer, serving in the United States Army and then, during the American Civil War, in the Confederate States Army.... Joseph Finegan
Joseph Finegan
Joseph Finegan was an attorney, politician, and railroad builder in Florida, but is primarily known as the general who commanded the Confederate States Army in its victory at the Battle of Olustee....
Jesse Johnson Finley
John B. Floyd
John B. Floyd
John Buchanan Floyd , was a Virginia politician , U.S. Secretary of War, and the Confederate States Army general in the American Civil War who lost the crucial Battle of Fort Donelson....
John H. Forney
William Henry Forney
Nathan Bedford Forrest
Nathan Bedford Forrest
Nathan Bedford Forrest was a Lieutenant General in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. He is remembered both as a self made and innovative cavalry leader during the war and as a figure in the postwar establishment of the first Ku Klux Klan organization opposing the Reconstruction era of the United States in the South.... John W. Frazer
John W. Frazer
John Wesley Frazer was an United States soldier, planter, and businessman. He was a career officer in the United States Army, and then served as a Confederate States Army General officer during the American Civil War.... Samuel Gibbs French
Samuel Gibbs French
Samuel Gibbs French was an officer in the United States Army, wealthy plantation owner, author, and a Major General in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War.... Daniel M. Frost
Daniel M. Frost
Daniel Marsh Frost was an antebellum officer in the United States Army and then a Brigadier general in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War....
Birkett Davenport Fry
Richard Montgomery Gano was a physician, Protestant Religious minister, and History of Confederate States Army Generals#brigadier general in the army of the Confederate States of America during the American Civil War.... Franklin Gardner
Franklin Gardner
Franklin Gardner was a Confederate States Army General officer in the American Civil War, best noted for his service at the Siege of Port Hudson....
William M. Gardner
Samuel Garland, Jr.
Samuel Garland, Jr.
Samuel Garland, Jr., was an United States attorney from Virginia and Confederate States Army General officer during the American Civil War. He was killed in action during the Maryland Campaign while defending Fox's Gap at the Battle of South Mountain.... Richard B. Garnett
Richard B. Garnett
Richard Brooke Garnett was a career United States Army officer and a Confederate States of America General officer in the American Civil War. He was killed during Pickett's Charge at the Battle of Gettysburg.... Robert S. Garnett
Robert S. Garnett
File:Richard B. Garnett .jpgRobert Selden Garnett was a career military officer, serving in the United States Army until the American Civil War, when he became a Confederate States Army Brigadier General .... Isham Warren Garrott
Isham Warren Garrott
Isham Warren Garrott was a Brigadier General in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. Garrott was killed during the Vicksburg Campaign.... Lucius Jeremiah Gartrell
Lucius Jeremiah Gartrell
Lucius Jeremiah Gartrell was an United States politician and lawyer, as well as general in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War.... Martin Witherspoon Gary
Martin Witherspoon Gary
Martin Witherspoon Gary was a History of Confederate States Army Generals#brigadier general in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War and a United States Democratic Party politician in postbellum South Carolina.... Richard C. Gatlin
Richard C. Gatlin
Richard Caswell Gatlin was a Confederate States of America general during the American Civil War.... Samuel J. Gholson
Samuel J. Gholson
Samuel Jameson Gholson was a United States House of Representatives from Mississippi, as well as a Confederate States Army general during the American Civil War....
Randall Lee Gibson
Jeremy F. Gilmer
Jeremy Francis Gilmer
Jeremy Francis Gilmer was an United States soldier, mapmaker, and civil engineer most noted for his service as the Chief Engineer of the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War.... States Rights Gist
States Rights Gist
States Rights Gist was a lawyer, a militia General officer in South Carolina, and a Confederate States Army general who served during the American Civil War....
A. H. Gladden
Archibald C. Godwin
Archibald C. Godwin
Archibald Campbell Godwin was an Brigadier general in the Confederate States Army who was killed at the Third Battle of Winchester during the American Civil War.... James M. Goggin
James M. Goggin
James Monroe Goggin was an United States businessman and soldier. He served as an officer in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War, and very briefly as a General officer in 1864....
George Washington Gordon
James B. Gordon
James B. Gordon
James Byron Gordon was a Brigadier General in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. He was killed in action at the Battle of Meadow Bridge....
John B. Gordon
Josiah Gorgas
Josiah Gorgas
Josiah Gorgas was one of the few Northern-born Confederate States of America generals in the American Civil War. As chief of ordnance, he managed to keep the Confederate armies supplied with weapons and ammunition, despite the Union blockade and even though the Southern United States had hardly any munitions industry before the war began....
Daniel C. Govan
Archibald Gracie, Jr.
Hiram B. Granbury
Hiram B. Granbury
Hiram B. Granbury was one of the six Confederate States Army generals killed at the Battle of Franklin II during the American Civil War.The son of a Baptist Church minister moved to Waco, Texas, in the 1850s.... Henry Gray
Henry Gray (politician)
Henry Gray, Jr. was an United States lawyer and politician who served in the state legislatures of Mississippi and then Louisiana. During the American Civil War, he was a General officer in the Confederate Army and subsequently served in the Congress of the Confederate States.... John B. Grayson
John B. Grayson
John Breckinridge Grayson was a career United States Army officer and a graduate of United States Military Academy. He is well known for being a Confederate States Army Brigadier General during the American Civil War, his service during the Mexican-American War, and for his early death only three months after joining the Confederate Army of... Martin E. Green
Martin E. Green
Martin Edwin Green was a Confederate States of America History of Confederate States Army Generals#brigadier general in the American Civil War, and a key organizer of the Missouri State Guard in northern Missouri.... Thomas Green (general)
Thomas Green (general)
Thomas ?Tom? Green was a Texas landowner, politician, and soldier who served as a History of Confederate States Army Generals#brigadier general in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War.... Elkanah Greer
Elkanah Greer
Elkanah Brackin Greer was an antebellum cotton planter, merchant, and then a general in the Confederate States Army who served in the Western Theater of the American Civil War of the American Civil War.... John Gregg (CSA)
John Gregg (CSA)
John Gregg was an United States judge, politician, and General officer in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. He was killed in action during the Siege of Petersburg.... Maxcy Gregg
Maxcy Gregg
Maxcy Gregg was a lawyer, soldier in the United States Army during the Mexican-American War, and a Confederate States of America History of Confederate States Army Generals#brigadier general during the American Civil War who was killed at the Battle of Fredericksburg.... Richard Griffith (general)
Richard Griffith (general)
Richard Griffith was a Brigadier General in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. He was mortally wounded at the Battle of Savage's Station during the 1862 Peninsula Campaign.... Bryan Grimes
Bryan Grimes
Bryan Grimes was a North Carolina plantation owner and a general officer in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. He fought in nearly all of the major battles of the Eastern Theater of the American Civil War of that war.... Walter Gwynn
Walter Gwynn
Walter Gwynn was a civil engineer and soldier who became a Confederate States Army general in the American Civil War....
Johnson Hagood was a Brigadier General#United States in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War and the United States Democratic Party Governor of South Carolina from 1880 to 1882.... Wade Hampton III
Wade Hampton III
Wade Hampton III was a Confederate States of America cavalry leader during the American Civil War and afterwards a politician from South Carolina, serving as its governor and as a U.S.... Roger Hanson
Roger Hanson
Roger Weightman Hanson was a general in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. The commander of the famed "Orphan Brigade," he was mortally wounded at the Battle of Murfreesboro....
William Joseph Hardee
Robert Hopkins Hatton
James Morrison Hawes
James Morrison Hawes
James Morrison Hawes was a Brigadier general in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War....
Alexander T. Hawthorn
Harry T. Hays
Harry T. Hays
Harry Thompson Hays was an United States Army officer serving in the Mexican-American War and a General officer who served in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War.... Louis Hébert (Confederate Army officer)
Louis Hébert (Confederate Army officer)
Louis H?bert was an United States of America educator, civil engineer, writer and soldier who became a History of Confederate States Army Generals#brigadier general in the Confederate Army during the American Civil War.... Paul Octave Hébert
Paul Octave Hebert
Paul Octave H?bert was Governor of Louisiana from 1853-56 and a General officer in the Confederate States of America.... Benjamin Hardin Helm
Benjamin Hardin Helm
Benjamin Hardin Helm was a Kentucky politician, Lawyer, Confederate States of America Brigadier general , and a brother-in-law of Abraham Lincoln.... Henry Heth
Henry Heth
Henry "Harry" Heth was a career United States Army officer and a Confederate States Army General officer in the American Civil War. He is best-remembered for precipitating the Battle of Gettysburg, accomplished inadvertently while sending some of his troops of the Army of Northern Virginia to the small Pennsylvania village, according to his...
Ambrose Powell Hill
Daniel Harvey Hill
Daniel Harvey Hill
Daniel Harvey Hill was a Confederate States Army general during the American Civil War and a Southern scholar. He was known as an aggressive leader, and as an austere, deeply religious man, with a dry, sarcastic humor.... Thomas C. Hindman
Thomas C. Hindman
Thomas Carmichael Hindman, Jr. was a lawyer, United States House of Representatives from the Arkansas's 1st congressional district of Arkansas, and a Major General in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War.... Robert Hoke
Robert Hoke
Robert Frederick Hoke was an United States businessman, railroad executive, and a Confederate States Army General officer during the American Civil War.... Theophilus H. Holmes
Theophilus H. Holmes
Theophilus Hunter Holmes was a career United States Army officer and a Confederate States Army general in the American Civil War.Holmes was born in Clinton, North Carolina, North Carolina.... James T. Holtzclaw
James T. Holtzclaw
James Thadeus Holtzclaw was an Alabama lawyer, railroad commissioner, and general officer in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War.... John Bell Hood
John Bell Hood
John Bell Hood was a Confederate States Army general during the American Civil War. Hood had a reputation for bravery and aggressiveness that sometimes bordered on recklessness....
Benjamin Huger (1805-1877)
Benjamin Grubb Humphreys
Theodore G. Hunt
Eppa Hunton
Eppa Hunton
Eppa Hunton II was a United States House of Representatives and United States Senate from Virginia and a Brigadier general in the Confederate Army during the American Civil War....
John Daniel Imboden was a lawyer, teacher, Virginia state legislator. During the American Civil War, he was a Confederate States Army cavalry General officer and Irregular military fighter.... Alfred Iverson, Jr.
Alfred Iverson, Jr.
Alfred Iverson, Jr. was a lawyer and a Confederate States Army general in the American Civil War. He is best known for a disastrous infantry assault at the first day of the Battle of Gettysburg....
Henry Rootes Jackson was a Major general in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War....
John K. Jackson
Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson
William Hicks Jackson
William Hicks Jackson
William Hicks "Red" Jackson was a cotton plantation, horse breeder, and general in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War....
William Lowther "Mudwall" Jackson
Albert Gallatin Jenkins
Micah Jenkins
Micah Jenkins
Micah Jenkins , was a Confederate States Army general in the American Civil War, mortally wounded by friendly fire at the Battle of the Wilderness.... Adam Johnson (colonel)
Adam Johnson (colonel)
Adam Rankin "Stovepipe" Johnson was an antebellum Old West frontiersman and later an officer in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War.... Bradley T. Johnson
Bradley Tyler Johnson
Bradley Tyler Johnson was an United States lawyer, soldier, and writer. He served as a general in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War....
Bushrod R. Johnson
Edward Johnson (general)
Edward Johnson (general)
Edward Johnson , also known as Allegheny Johnson , was a United States Army officer and a Confederate States of America General officer in the American Civil War.... Albert Sidney Johnston
Albert Sidney Johnston
Albert Sidney Johnston was a career United States Army officer, a Republic of Texas General officer, and a Confederate States Army General . He saw extensive combat during his military career, fighting actions in the Texas War of Independence, the Mexican-American War, the Utah War, as well as the American Civil War....
George D. Johnson
Joseph E. Johnston
Joseph E. Johnston
Joseph Eggleston Johnston was a career United States Army officer, serving with distinction in the Mexican-American War and Seminole Wars, and was also one of the most senior general officers in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War....
Robert D. Johnston
David R. Jones
David R. Jones
David Rumph Jones was a Confederate States Army general in the American Civil War.BiographyJones was born in Orangeburg, South Carolina.... John M. Jones
John M. Jones
John Marshall Jones was a History of Confederate States Army Generals#brigadier general in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War.... John R. Jones
John R. Jones
John Robert Jones was Virginia businessman and soldier who was a controversial Brigadier General in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War....
Sam Jones (Confederate Army officer)
William E. Jones
William E. Jones
William Edmondson Jones, known as Grumble Jones, was a planter, a career United States Army officer, and a Confederate States Army cavalry General officer, killed in the American Civil War.... Thomas Jordan
Thomas Jordan
Thomas Jordan was a Confederate States of America American Civil War spies, and later a general in the Confederate States of America army during the American Civil War....
John Herbert Kelly was a career United States Army officer. During the American Civil War, he was the youngest Brigadier General in the Confederate States Army at the time of his promotion and one of the youngest general officer to die during the war at the age of 24.... James L. Kemper
James L. Kemper
James Lawson Kemper was a lawyer, a Confederate States Army general in the American Civil War, and a governor of Virginia. He was the youngest of the brigade commanders, and the only non-professional military officer, in the division that led Pickett's Charge, in which he was wounded and captured but rescued.... John Doby Kennedy
John Doby Kennedy
John Doby Kennedy was a general in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War, as well as a post-war planter, attorney, politician, and Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina....
Joseph Brevard Kershaw
William W. Kirkland
James Henry Lane was a university professor and Confederate States Army General officer in the American Civil War.He is considered to be the father of Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University and is the namestake of the University's oldest building, Lane Hall, and Lane Stadium.... Walter P. Lane
Walter P. Lane
Walter Paye Lane was a Confederate States Army general during the American Civil War who also served in the armies of the Republic of Texas and the United States.... Evander M. Law
Evander M. Law
Evander McIvor Law was an author, teacher, and a Confederate States Army general in the American Civil War....
Alexander R. Lawton
Danville Leadbetter
Danville Leadbetter
Danville Leadbetter was a career United States Army officer and later he served as a Confederate States of America General officer during the American Civil War.... Edwin Gray Lee
Edwin Gray Lee
Edwin Gray Lee was an American soldier from Virginia and a Confederate States Army Brigadier general during the American Civil War. He was a member of the Lee family and second cousin of Robert E.... Fitzhugh Lee
Fitzhugh Lee
Fitzhugh Lee , nephew of Robert E. Lee, was a Confederate States Army cavalry General officer in the American Civil War, Governor of Virginia, diplomat, and United States Army general in the Spanish-American War.... George Washington Custis Lee
George Washington Custis Lee
Major general George Washington Custis Lee , aka Custis Lee, was the eldest son of Robert E. Lee and Mary Anna Custis Lee.From 1850 to 1854 he attended United States Military Academy, graduating first in his class.... Robert E. Lee
Robert E. Lee
Robert Edward Lee , was a career United States United States Army officer , an engineer, and among the most celebrated generals in American history.... Stephen D. Lee
Stephen D. Lee
Stephen Dill Lee was an United States soldier, planter, legislator, and author. He was the youngest Confederate States of America Lieutenant General during the American Civil War, and later served as the first president of Mississippi State University.... William Henry Fitzhugh Lee
William Henry Fitzhugh Lee
William Henry Fitzhugh Lee , known as Rooney Lee or W.H.F. Lee, was the second son of Robert E. Lee and Mary Anna Custis Lee. He was a planter, a Confederate States Army cavalry General officer in the American Civil War, and later a member of the U.S.... Collett Leventhorpe
Collett Leventhorpe
Collett Leventhorpe was a Brigadier general in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War.... Joseph Horace Lewis
Joseph Horace Lewis
Joseph Horace Lewis was a United States House of Representatives from Kentucky and a Brigadier General in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War.... William G. Lewis
William G. Lewis
William Gaston Lewis was a Confederate States Army General officer in the American Civil War.... St. John Richardson Liddell
St. John Richardson Liddell
St. John Richardson Liddell was a prominent Louisiana planter who served as a general in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War....
Robert D. Lilley
Lewis Henry Little
Lewis Henry Little
Lewis Henry Little was a career United States Army officer and a Confederate States Army History of Confederate States Army Generals#brigadier general during the American Civil War.... Thomas M. Logan
Thomas M. Logan
Thomas Muldrup Logan was an United States soldier and businessman. He served as a Confederate States of America General officer during the American Civil War, and afterward was greatly involved in railroad development in the Southern United States.... Lunsford L. Lomax
Lunsford L. Lomax
Lunsford Lindsay Lomax was an United States educator, farmer, and Officer in the United States Army who resigned his commission to join the Confederate States Army at the outbreak of the American Civil War....
Armistead L. Long
James Longstreet
James Longstreet
James Longstreet was one of the foremost Confederate States Army General officers of the American Civil War and the principal subordinate to General Robert E.... William W. Loring
William W. Loring
William Wing Loring was a soldier from North Carolina who served in the armies of the United States Army, the Confederate States Army, and Egyptian Army.... Mansfield Lovell
Mansfield Lovell
Mansfield Lovell was a History of Confederate States Army Generals#major general in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War.... Mark Perrin Lowrey
Mark Perrin Lowrey
Mark Perrin Lowrey was a Southern Baptist preacher otherwise known as the "Preacher General". He is known for being a Confederate Brigadier General during the American Civil War, for his works in the Mississippi Southern Baptist Convention, and for founding the Blue Mountain College....
Robert Lowry
Philip N. Luckett
Philip N. Luckett
Philip Noland Luckett was an United States soldier and physician. He served as a general in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War and was most noted for his service in the Trans-Mississippi Theater of the American Civil War.... Hylan B. Lyon
Hylan B. Lyon
Hylan Benton Lyon was a general in the Confederate Army during the American Civil War. He led a daring cavalry raid into Kentucky in the American Civil War in December 1864 in which his troops burned seven county courthouses....
John McCausland, Jr. was a History of Confederate States Army Generals#brigadier general in the Confederate States Army, famous for the ransom of Hagerstown, Maryland, and the razing of Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, during the American Civil War.... William McComb
William McComb
William McComb was a Confederate States of America Brigadier General born in Pennsylvania but is best associated with Tennessee.McComb was born on November 21, 1828 in Mercer County, Pennsylvania.... John P. McCown
John P. McCown
John Porter McCown was a career officer in the United States Army, fighting in the Mexican?American War and in the Seminole Wars. He also served as a General officer in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War....
Ben McCulloch
Henry Eustace McCulloch
Henry Eustace McCulloch
Henry Eustace McCulloch was a soldier in the Texas Revolution, Texas Ranger, and Brigadier general in the army of the Confederate States of America during the American Civil War.... Samuel McGowan (general)
Samuel McGowan (general)
Samuel McGowan was a general from South Carolina in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. He commanded a brigade in A.P. Hill's famous "Light Division" and was wounded several times.... James M. McIntosh
James M. McIntosh
James McQueen McIntosh was a career United States soldier who served as a Brigadier General in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War.... Lafayette McLaws
Lafayette McLaws
Lafayette McLaws was a United States Army officer and a Confederate States Army General officer in the American Civil War.... Evander McNair
Evander McNair
Evander McNair was a Brigadier general in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War.... Dandridge McRae
Dandridge McRae
Dandridge McRae was a lawyer, court official, and Inspector General#United States of America of Arkansas, as well as a Brigadier general in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War....
William W. Mackall
John B. Magruder
John B. Magruder
John Bankhead Magruder was a career military officer who served in the armies of three nations. He was a United States Army officer in the Mexican-American War, a Confederate States Army General officer during the American Civil War, and a postbellum general in the Imperial Mexican Army.... William Mahone
William Mahone
William Mahone , of Southampton County, Virginia, was a civil engineer, teacher, soldier, railroad executive, and a member of the Virginia General Assembly and Congress of the United States.... James Patrick Major
James Patrick Major
James Patrick Major was a career United States Army officer and a Confederate States Army Brigadier General#United States during the American Civil War. ... George Maney
George Maney
George Earl Maney was an United States soldier, politician, railroad executive and diplomat. He was a general in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War and a postbellum U.S.... Arthur M. Manigault
Camille Armand Jules Marie, Prince de Polignac was a France Nobility, Academia and soldier who joined the Confederate States Army at the outbreak of the American Civil War and became Major general before war's end.... James Green Martin
James Green Martin
James Green Martin was a Brigadier general in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War.... William T. Martin
William T. Martin
William Thompson Martin was an United States lawyer and politician who became a Confederate Army general of cavalry during the American Civil War.... John S. Marmaduke
John S. Marmaduke
John Sappington Marmaduke was a Confederate States Army General officer during the American Civil War, and was Governor of Missouri of Missouri from 1884 until his death in 1887.... Humphrey Marshall (general)
Humphrey Marshall (general)
Humphrey Marshall was a four-term antebellum United States Congressman and a Brigadier general in the Confederate States Army and a Confederate Congressman during the American Civil War....
Dabney Herndon Maury
Samuel B. Maxey
Samuel B. Maxey
Samuel Bell Maxey was an United States soldier, lawyer, and politician from Paris, Texas, Texas, United States. He was a Major General for the Confederate States Army in the American Civil War and later represented Texas in the United States Senate....
Hugh Weedon Mercer
William Miller
William Miller (soldier)
William Miller was an United States soldier, attorney, timberman, and politician. He served as a general in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War.... John Creed Moore
John Creed Moore
John Creed Moore was an United States Army officer and a graduate of West Point. He is known for being a Confederate States of America Brigadier General during the American Civil War and his works in the educational system in Texas.... John Hunt Morgan
John Hunt Morgan
John Hunt Morgan was a Confederate States Army General officer and cavalry officer in the American Civil War.Morgan is best known for Morgan's Raid in 1863, when he led 2,460 troops racing past Union Army lines into Kentucky, Indiana, and Ohio in July 1863.... John Tyler Morgan
John Tyler Morgan
John Tyler Morgan was a General in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War, a Grand Dragon of the Ku Klux Klan, and a postbellum six-term United States Senate from the U.S.... John S. Mosby
John S. Mosby
John Singleton Mosby also known as the "Gray Ghost," was a regular Confederate States Army Cavalry battalion commander in the American Civil War.... Alfred Mouton
Alfred Mouton
Jean Jacques Alfred Alexandre Mouton was a Confederate States of America General officer in the American Civil War. A graduate of the United States Military Academy, he was killed at the Battle of Mansfield.... Thomas T. Munford
Thomas T. Munford
Thomas Taylor Munford was an USA farmer and Confederate States of America History of Confederate States Army Generals#brigadier general during the American Civil War....
Allison Nelson was the ninth mayor of Atlanta, Georgia, Georgia , as well as a Brigadier general in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War....
Francis Redding Tillou Nicholls
Lucius B. Northrop
Richard Lucian Page was a United States Navy officer who joined the Confederate States Navy and later became a History of Confederate States Army Generals#brigadier general in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War.... Joseph B. Palmer
Joseph B. Palmer
Joseph Benjamin Palmer was an United States lawyer, legislator, and soldier. He served as a Confederate States of America General officer in the American Civil War, during which he was wounded four times.... Mosby Parsons
Mosby Parsons
Mosby Monroe Parsons was a United States officer in the Mexican-American War and Brigadier General of the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War.... William H. F. Payne
William H. F. Payne
William Henry Fitzhugh Payne was a general in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War.... Nicholas Bartlett Pearce
Nicholas Bartlett Pearce
Nicholas Bartlett Pearce was a Brigadier General in the Arkansas state militia during the American Civil War. He led a brigade of infantry in one of the war's earliest battles in the Trans-Mississippi Theater of the American Civil War before serving as a commissary office in the Confederate States Army for the rest of the war.... William R. Peck
William R. Peck
William Raine Peck was a wealthy United States plantation owner, politician, and soldier who served as a General officer in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War.... John Pegram
John Pegram (general)
John Pegram was a career soldier from Virginia who served as an officer in the United States Army and then as a Brigadier General in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War.... John C. Pemberton
John C. Pemberton
John Clifford Pemberton , was a career United States Army officer who fought in the Seminole Wars and with distinction during the Mexican?American War.... William N. Pendleton
William N. Pendleton
William Nelson Pendleton was an United States teacher, Episcopal Church in the United States of America priest, and soldier. He served as a Confederate States of America General officer during the American Civil War, noted for his position as Gen.... William Dorsey Pender
William Dorsey Pender
William Dorsey Pender was one of the youngest, and most promising, General officers fighting for the Confederate States of America in the American Civil War.... Abner Monroe Perrin
Abner Monroe Perrin
Abner Monroe Perrin was a Confederate States Army general in the Army of Northern Virginia during the American Civil War. He was killed at the Battle of Spotsylvania....
Edward Aylesworth Perry
J. Johnston Pettigrew
J. Johnston Pettigrew
James Johnston Pettigrew was an author, lawyer, linguist, diplomat, and a Confederate States Army General officer in the American Civil War. He was a major leader in the disastrous Pickett's Charge and was killed a few days after the Battle of Gettysburg during the Confederate retreat to Virginia....
Edmund Winston Pettus
George Pickett
George Pickett
George Edward Pickett was a career United States Army officer who became a general in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War.... Albert Pike
Albert Pike
Albert Pike was an attorney-at-law, soldier, writer, and freemasonry. Pike is the only Confederate States Army military officer or figure to be honored with an outdoor statue in Washington, D.C....
Gideon J. Pillow
Leonidas Polk
Leonidas Polk
Leonidas Polk was a Confederate States Army general who was once a planter in Maury County, Tennessee, and a second cousin of President of the United States James K.... Lucius E. Polk
Lucius E. Polk
Lucius Eugene Polk was a brigadier general in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. He was the nephew of Leonidas Polk.... Carnot Posey
Carnot Posey
Carnot Posey was a Mississippi planter and lawyer, and a Confederate States Army general in the American Civil War. He was mortally wounded at the Battle of Bristoe Station, dying from infection.... Sterling Price
Sterling Price
Sterling Price was a lawyer, politician, and militia General officer from the U.S. state of Missouri, an United States Army general during the Mexican-American War, and a Confederate States Army History of Confederate States Army Generals#major general during the American Civil War.... John S. Preston
John S. Preston
John Smith Preston was a wealthy plantation, soldier, and attorney who became prominent in South Carolina politics in the 19th century. An ardent secessionist, he was the state's delegate dispatched to help convince the Virginia Ordinance of Secession to join South Carolina in seceding from the antebellum Union in the months prior to the st... William Preston (Kentucky)
William Preston (Kentucky)
William Preston was an United States lawyer, politician, and ambassador. He also was a Major General in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War.... Roger Atkinson Pryor
Roger Atkinson Pryor
Roger Atkinson Pryor was an United States jurist, politician, newspaper editor, and Confederate States Army General officer during the American Civil War....
William Andrew Quarles was a Tennessee lawyer, politician, railroad executive, and a general in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War....
Gabriel James Rains was a career United States Army officer and a Brig. Gen. in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War.... James Edward Rains
James Edward Rains
James Edward Rains was a lawyer and General officer in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. He was killed at the Battle of Stones River.... James S. Rains
James S. Rains
James Spencer Rains was a Brigadier General of the Missouri State Guard during the American Civil War.... Stephen Dodson Ramseur
Stephen Dodson Ramseur
Stephen Dodson Ramseur was one of the youngest Confederate States Army General officers in the American Civil War. He was mortally wounded in battle at the Battle of Cedar Creek in the Shenandoah Valley....
George Wythe Randolph
Matt Whitaker Ransom
Matt Whitaker Ransom
Matt Whitaker Ransom was a general in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War and a United States Democratic Party United States Senate from the state of North Carolina between 1872 and 1895.... Robert Ransom, Jr.
Robert Ransom, Jr.
Robert Ransom, Jr. was a Major General in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. His brother Matt W. Ransom was also a Confederate general officer and United States Senate.... Alexander W. Reynolds
Alexander W. Reynolds
Alexander Welch Reynolds was a career United States Army officer and a Confederate States Army General officer during the American Civil War. He later served in the Egyptian Army....
Daniel H. Reynolds
Robert V. Richardson
Robert V. Richardson
Robert Vinkler Richardson was a Brigadier General in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War....
Roswell Ripley
John Selden Roane
John Selden Roane
John Selden Roane was a Confederate States of America Brigadier General during the American Civil War. He also served as List of Governors of Arkansas of the State of Arkansas.... William Paul Roberts
William Paul Roberts
William Paul Roberts was a Brigadier General in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. He was the youngest Confederate general officer to serve in the War.... Beverly Robertson
Beverly Robertson
Beverly Holcombe Robertson was a cavalry officer in the United States Army on the Western frontier and a Confederate States Army general during the American Civil War.... Felix Huston Robertson
Felix Huston Robertson
Felix Huston Robertson was the only native-born Texan to serve as a general in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. At the time of his death, he was the last surviving general of the Confederacy....
Jerome Bonaparte Robertson
Phillip Roddey
Phillip Roddey
Phillip Dale Roddey was a Brigadier General in the Confederate States Army of the Confederate States of America during the American Civil War.... Robert E. Rodes
Robert E. Rodes
Robert Emmett Rodes was a railroad civil engineer and a promising young Confederate States Army General officer in the American Civil War, killed in battle in the Shenandoah Valley.... Lawrence Sullivan Ross
Lawrence Sullivan Ross
Lawrence Sullivan "Sul" Ross was the 19th Governor of Texas of Texas, a Confederate States Army general during the American Civil War, and a president of the Texas A&M University.... Thomas L. Rosser
Thomas L. Rosser
Thomas Lafayette Rosser was a Confederate States Army General officer during the American Civil War, and later an officer in the Spanish American War and railroad construction engineer.... Daniel Ruggles
Daniel Ruggles
Daniel Ruggles was a Brigadier general in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. He commanded a division at the Battle of Shiloh.... Albert Rust
Albert Rust
Albert Rust was a member of the United States House of Representatives from Arkansas and a Brigadier general in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War....
}}Alfred Moore Scales was a Confederate States Army General officer in the American Civil War and the United States Democratic Party Governor of North Carolina of the U.S....
Thomas M. Scott
William Read Scurry
William Read Scurry
William Read Scurry was a general in the Confederate States Army in the American Civil War.Scurry was born in Gallatin, Tennessee. He moved to Texas in 1839 and became a lawyer and district attorney.... Claudius W. Sears
Claudius W. Sears
Claudius Wistar Sears was an United States Army officer, an educator, and a Confederate States Army General officer during the American Civil War.... Paul Jones Semmes
Paul Jones Semmes
For other uses, see Semmes.Paul Jones Semmes was a banker, businessman, and a Confederate States Army general in the American Civil War, mortally wounded at the Battle of Gettysburg.... Raphael Semmes
Raphael Semmes
For other uses, see Semmes.Raphael Semmes was an officer in the United States Navy from 1826 to 1860 and the Confederate States Navy from 1860 to 1865.... Jacob H. Sharp
Jacob H. Sharp
Jacob Hunter Sharp was a Mississippi lawyer, newspaperman and politician, as well as a general officer in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War.... Robert Gould Shaw
Robert Gould Shaw
Robert Gould Shaw was the Colonel in command of the all-African American 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, which entered the American Civil War in 1863....
Joseph Orville Shelby
Charles M. Shelley
Charles M. Shelley
For the United States rugby league player Charles Shelley see Charles Shelley .Charles Miller Shelley was a Brigadier general in the Confederate States Army and a postbellum United States House of Representatives from Alabama.... Francis A. Shoup
Francis A. Shoup
Francis Asbury Shoup was a lawyer from Indianapolis, Indiana, who decided to become a Brigadier general for the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War.... Henry Hopkins Sibley
Henry Hopkins Sibley
Henry Hopkins Sibley was a Brigadier general during the American Civil War, fighting in the Confederate States Army in the New Mexico Territory.... William Y. Slack
William Y. Slack
William Yarnel Slack was a Missouri lawyer, politician, and general officer in the Missouri State Guard during the American Civil War. He led a division in some of war's earliest major battles in the Trans-Mississippi Theater of the American Civil War and was mortally wounded in the Battle of Pea Ridge in Arkansas.... James E. Slaughter
James E. Slaughter
James E. Slaughter was a West Point graduate and a general in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War.Slaughter was also a veteran of the Mexican-American War.... Edmund Kirby Smith
Edmund Kirby Smith
Edmund Kirby Smith was a career United States Army officer, an educator, and a Full General in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War, notable for his command of the Trans-Mississippi Department of the Confederacy after the fall of Battle of Vicksburg.... Gustavus Woodson Smith
Gustavus Woodson Smith
Gustavus Woodson Smith , more commonly known as G.W. Smith, was a career United States Army officer who fought in the Mexican-American War, a civil engineer, and a Major General in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War....
James A. Smith
Martin L. Smith
Preston Smith
Preston Smith (general)
Preston Smith was a lawyer and soldier from the state of Tennessee who served as a General officer in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War.... Thomas Benton Smith
Thomas Benton Smith
Thomas Benton Smith was a Brigadier General in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War.Smith was born in Rutherford County, Tennessee....
William "Extra Billy" Smith
Gilbert Moxley Sorrel
Hezekiah G. Spruill
Hezekiah G. Spruill
Hezekiah G. Spruill , was an American soldier who served as a general officer in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War.Spruill was the mayor of and a planter in Plymouth in Washington County, North Carolina, North Carolina, during the Civil War....
Leroy A. Stafford
Peter Burwell Starke
Peter Burwell Starke
Peter Burwell Starke was a Mississippi politician and sheriff, and a Brigadier General in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War.... William E. Starke
William E. Starke
William Edwin Starke was a wealthy Gulf Coast of the United States businessman and a Brigadier General in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War.... William Steele
William Steele (general)
William Steele was a career United States Army officer who served with distinction during the Mexican?American War. He later served as a Confederate States Army General officer during the American Civil War.... Alexander E. Steen
Alexander E. Steen
Alexander Early Steen was a career United States soldier from Missouri who served as a general in the Confederate States of America service during the American Civil War.... George H. Steuart
George H. Steuart
George Hume Steuart was a Confederate States Army General officer during the American Civil War, primarily serving in the Army of Northern Virginia....
Walter H. Stevens
Carter L. Stevenson
Carter L. Stevenson
Carter Littlepage Stevenson, Jr. was a career military officer, serving in the United States Army in several antebellum wars and then in the Confederate States Army as a general in the Western Theater of the American Civil War.... Alexander P. Stewart
Alexander P. Stewart
Alexander Peter Stewart was a career United States Army officer, college professor, and a General officer in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War....
Marcellus A. Stovall
Otho F. Strahl
Otho F. Strahl
Otho French Strahl was an attorney and a History of Confederate States Army Generals#brigadier general in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War.... J.E.B. Stuart
J.E.B. Stuart
James Ewell Brown "Jeb" Stuart was an American soldier from Virginia and a Confederate States Army general during the American Civil War. He was known to his friends as "Jeb", from the initials of his given names....
William Booth Taliaferro , was a United States Army officer, a lawyer, legislator, and Confederate States Army General officer in the American Civil War....
James C. Tappan
M. D. K. Taylor
M. D. K. Taylor
Marion DeKalb Taylor or M. D. K. Taylor was an United States politician in Alabama and Texas, as well as a general in the Confederate States Army army during the American Civil War.... Richard Taylor (general)
Richard Taylor (general)
Richard Taylor was a Confederate States of America General officer in the American Civil War. He was the son of United States President of the United States Zachary Taylor and First Lady Margaret Taylor....
James B. Terrill
William Terry (congressman)
William Terry (congressman)
William Terry was a nineteenth century politician, lawyer, teacher, and soldier from Virginia and the last commander of the famed Stonewall Brigade during the American Civil War.... William R. Terry
William R. Terry
William Richard Terry was a businessman, politician, prison superintendent and a Brigadier General in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War.... Bryan M. Thomas
Bryan M. Thomas
Bryan Morel Thomas was a general in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War....
Edward L. Thomas
M. Jeff Thompson
M. Jeff Thompson
Meriwether Jeff Thompson was a History of Confederate States Army Generals#brigadier general in the Missouri State Guard during the American Civil War.... Lloyd Tilghman
Lloyd Tilghman
Lloyd Tilghman was a railroad construction engineer and a Confederate States Army general in the American Civil War, killed at the Battle of Champion Hill....
Robert A. Toombs
Thomas F. Toon
Thomas F. Toon
Thomas Fentress Toon was a Brigadier General in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War.... James H. Trapier
James H. Trapier
James Heyward Trapier was a career United States Army officer who fought during the Mexican?American War. He also served as a Confederate States of America General officer during the American Civil War, dying shortly after its conclusion.... Isaac R. Trimble
Isaac R. Trimble
Isaac Ridgeway Trimble was a United States Army officer, a civil engineer, a prominent railroad construction superintendent and executive, and a Confederate States Army General officer in the American Civil War, most famous for his leadership role in the assault known as Pickett's Charge at the Battle of Gettysburg.... William F. Tucker
William F. Tucker
William Feimster Tucker was a Brigadier General in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War....
David Emanuel Twiggs
Robert C. Tyler
Robert Brank Vance , nephew of the earlier Congressman Robert Brank Vance and brother of Zebulon Baird Vance, was a North Carolina United States Democratic Party politician who served as a member of the U.S.... Earl Van Dorn
Earl Van Dorn
Earl Van Dorn was a career United States Army officer, fighting with distinction during the Mexican-American War and against several tribes of Native Americans in the United States.... John Bordenave Villepigue
John Bordenave Villepigue
John Bordenave Villepigue was a career United States Army officer who served on the Western Frontier and became a Confederate States Army general in the American Civil War....
John George Walker was a Confederate States Army general in the American Civil War.... Leroy Pope Walker
LeRoy Pope Walker
LeRoy Pope Walker was the first Confederate States Secretary of War and issued the orders for the firing on Fort Sumter, which began the American Civil War.... Lucius M. Walker
Lucius M. Walker
Lucius Marshall "Marsh" Walker was a Confederate States Army General officer during the American Civil War. He was mortally wounded in a duel with fellow general John S.... Reuben Lindsay Walker
Reuben Lindsay Walker
Reuben Lindsay Walker was a Confederate States Army general who served in the artillery during the American Civil War....
William H.T. Walker
Edward Cary Walthall
Stand Watie
Stand Watie
Stand Watie was a leader of the Cherokee and a Brigadier General of the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. He commanded the Confederate Indian cavalry of the Army of the Trans-Mississippi made up mostly of Cherokee, Creek and Seminole.... Richard Waterhouse
Richard Waterhouse (general)
Richard Waterhouse was an American Civil War Confederate States Army Brigadier general .... Henry C. Wayne
Henry C. Wayne
Henry Constantine Wayne was an United States Army officer, and is known for his commanding the expedition to test the U.S. Camel Corps as part of Secretary of War Jefferson Davis plan to use camels as a transport in the American Old West....
David A. Weisiger
Absolom M. West
Absolom M. West
Absolom Madden West was a Southern United States politician, soldier, railroad president and labor organizer.... Gabriel C. Wharton
Gabriel C. Wharton
Gabriel Colvin Wharton was an United States civil engineer and soldier who served as a General officer in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War.... John A. Wharton
John A. Wharton
John Austin Wharton was a lawyer, plantation owner, and Confederate States Army General officer during the American Civil War. He is considered one of the Confederate States of America's best tactical cavalry commanders.... Joseph Wheeler
Joseph Wheeler
Joseph Wheeler was an United States military commander and politician. He has the rare distinction of serving as a General officer during war time for two opposing forces: first as a general in the Confederate States Army in the 1860s during the American Civil War, and later as a general in the United States Army during both the Spanish-Amer... John Wilkins Whitfield
John Wilkins Whitfield
John Wilkins Whitfield was a territorial delegate to the United States Congress representing the Kansas Territory from 1854 until 1856. He was late a general in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War...
William Henry Chase Whiting
Washington C. Whitthorne
Washington C. Whitthorne
Washington Curran Whitthorne was a Tennessee Lawyer and United States Democratic Party politician.... Williams Carter Wickham
Williams Carter Wickham
Williams Carter Wickham was a lawyer, judge, politician, and an important Confederate States of America cavalry general who fought in the Virginia campaigns during the American Civil War....
Louis Trezevant Wigfall
John Stuart Williams
John Stuart Williams
John Stuart Williams was a general in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War and a postbellum Democratic Party United States Senate from Kentucky.... Cadmus M. Wilcox
Cadmus M. Wilcox
Cadmus Marcellus Wilcox was a career United States Army officer who served in the Mexican?American War and also was a Confederate States Army General officer during the American Civil War.... Charles Sidney Winder
Charles Sidney Winder
Charles Sidney Winder , was a career United States Army officer and a Confederate States Army general officer in the American Civil War. He was killed in action during the Battle of Cedar Mountain.... John H. Winder
John H. Winder
John Henry Winder was a career United States Army officer who serving with distinction during the Mexican?American War. He later served as a Confederate States of America general officer during the American Civil War.... Henry A. Wise
Henry A. Wise
Henry Alexander Wise was an United States statesman from Virginia.... Jones M. Withers
Jones M. Withers
Jones Mitchell Withers was a United States Army officer who fought during the Mexican?American War and later served as a Confederate States Army General officer during the American Civil War.... William T. Wofford
William T. Wofford
William Tatum Wofford was an officer during the Mexican-American War and a General officer in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War....
S.A.M. Wood
Ambrose R. Wright
Ambrose R. Wright
Ambrose Ransom Wright was a lawyer, Georgia politician, and a Confederate States Army general in the American Civil War.... Marcus Joseph Wright
Marcus Joseph Wright
Marcus Joseph Wright was a lawyer, author, and a Confederate States Army general in the American Civil War.Wright was born in Purdy, Tennessee, Tennessee....
Zebulon York was a general in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. He was among a small group of Northern-born Confederate generals....
Pierce Manning Butler Young
A General is a high rank in the United States military. General can be used as a generic term for all grades of general officer, or it can specifically refer to a single rank that is just called General....
