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Confederate general John Bell Hood. In the spring of 1864, the Confederate Army of Tennessee, under Gen. Joseph E. Johnston, was engaged in a campaign of maneuver against William T. Sherman, who was driving from Chattanooga toward Atlanta. Despite his two damaged limbs, Hood performed well in the field, riding as much as 20 miles a day without ...
Robert E. Lee, the best known CSA general.Lee is shown with the insignia of a Confederate colonel, which he chose to wear throughout the war. Much of the design of the Confederate States Army was based on the structure and customs of the United States Army [1] when the Confederate States Congress established the Confederate States War Department on February 21, 1861. [2]
Collection of the records began in 1864; no special attention was paid to Confederate records until just after the capture of Richmond, Virginia, in 1865, when with the help of Confederate Gen. Samuel Cooper, Union Army Chief of Staff Maj. Gen. Henry W. Halleck began the task of collecting and preserving such archives of the Confederacy as had survived the war.
Colonel and brevet brigadier general, U.S. Army. Commanded Department of Utah, 1858–1859, then Department of the Pacific. Resigned as colonel and brevet brigadier general, U.S. Army, May 3, 1861. In command of all Confederate forces west of Allegheny Mountains. Killed on the first day at Shiloh, April 6, 1862, aged 59. Johnston, George Doherty
General Morgan and his 2,460 handpicked Confederate cavalrymen, along with four artillery pieces, [1] departed from Sparta, Tennessee, on June 11, 1863.The expedition intended to divert the attention of the Union Army of the Ohio from Confederate forces in the state and possibly stir up pro-Confederate sentiments in the North.
The 4th Texas Infantry Regiment was a unit of Confederate States Army infantry volunteers that was created in 1861 and fought in the Army of Northern Virginia during the American Civil War. As part of the famous Texas Brigade , the regiment fought at Eltham's Landing , Seven Pines , Gaines's Mill , Second Bull Run , South Mountain , Antietam ...
General John Bell Hood, now commander of the Confederate army, dispatched French's division, which contained Cockrell's brigade, to capture a fortified Union position at Allatoona Pass. [14] At Allatoona, Cockrell's four-regiment brigade aligned with the 1st and 4th Missouri (Consolidated) second from the left.
Nathan Bedford Forrest (July 13, 1821 – October 29, 1877) was a 19th-century American slave trader active in the lower Mississippi River valley, a Confederate States Army general during the American Civil War. He was a founding member and the first Grand Wizard of the Reconstruction-era Ku Klux Klan, serving from 1867 to 1869.