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Confederate generals. [edit] Assigned to duty by E. Kirby Smith. Incomplete appointments. State militia generals. The Confederate and United States processes for appointment, nomination and confirmation of general officers were essentially the same.
The general officers of the Confederate States Army (CSA) were the senior military leaders of the Confederate States of America during the American Civil War of 1861–1865. They were often former officers from the United States Army (the regular army) before the Civil War, while others were given the rank based on merit or when necessity demanded.
There were many important confederate generals and commanders during the American Civil War. Some, like Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson, and Nathan Bedford Forrest are household names.
The list of American Civil War (Civil War) generals has been divided into five articles: an introduction on this page, a list of Union Army generals, a list of Union brevet generals, a list of Confederate Army generals and a list of prominent acting Confederate States Army generals, which includes officers appointed to duty by E. Kirby Smith ...
There were hundreds of generals commissioned in the American Civil War on both the Union and Confederate armies. Some, like Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson, Ulysses S. Grant and William Tecumseh Sherman are household names.
Famous Confederate Generals. 1. Robert E. Lee. Robert Edward Lee (January 19, 1807 – October 12, 1870) was a Confederate general who commanded the whole Confederate States Army in its last days of the American Civil War.
The Confederate Army employed hundreds of generals during the Civil War. This gallery provides an overview of several of the key Confederate generals who contributed to the Southern cause and helped guide its armies throughout the war.
Jeb Stuart: The Last Cavalier Biography of the dashing Confederate general is history at its best: fascinating, colorful, provocative. Includes portraits of Stuart's early life, training at West Point, the fateful decision to side with the South and action-packed battle scenes. 7 maps. 8 pages of photos.
Generals of the Confederate Army, 1861-1865. See below for biographies of Confederate Generals from Scribner’s Dictionary of American Biography. LEE, ROBERT EDWARD (January 19, 1807- October 12, 1870), soldier, the fifth child and third son of Henry, "Light-Horse Harry," Lee [q.v.] and Anne Hill (Carter) Lee, was horn at "Stratford ...
A total of 73 Confederate generals were killed or mortally wounded in battle during the Civil War, according to William F. Fox in his book Regimental Losses in the American Civil War, 1861-1865 (571-572).