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Jubal Anderson Early (November 3, 1816 – March 2, 1894) was an American lawyer, politician and military officer who served in the Confederate States Army during the Civil War. [1] Trained at the United States Military Academy, Early resigned his United States Army commission after the Second Seminole War and his Virginia military commission ...
Youngest Confederate general officer on date of appointment. Assigned a division in Wheeler's corps. During Atlanta campaign raid, mortally wounded in an action at Franklin, Tennessee, September 2, 1864. Left with William H. Harrison family; died a few days later, probably September 4, 1864, aged 24. Kemper, James Lawson: Brigadier general
Robert E. Lee. Robert Edward Lee (January 19, 1807 – October 12, 1870) was an American Confederate general during the American Civil War, toward the end of which he was appointed the overall commander of the Confederate States Army. He led the Army of Northern Virginia —the Confederacy's most powerful army—from 1862 until its surrender in ...
Signature. Thomas Jonathan " Stonewall " Jackson (January 21, 1824 – May 10, 1863) was a Confederate general and military officer who served during the American Civil War. He played a prominent role in nearly all military engagements in the Eastern theater of the war until his death. Military historians regard him as one of the most gifted ...
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.
400 – 500[3][4] The Battle of Fort Stevens was an American Civil War battle fought July 11–12, 1864, in Washington County, D.C. in present-day Northwest Washington, D.C., during the Valley campaigns of 1864 between forces under Confederate Lieutenant General Jubal Early and Union Major General Alexander McDowell McCook. Early's attack, less ...
Battle of Rich Mountain. Battle of Corrick's Ford †. Signature. Robert Selden Garnett (December 16, 1819 – July 13, 1861) 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. He was the first general officer killed in the Civil War.
Joseph "Fighting Joe" Wheeler (September 10, 1836 – January 25, 1906) was a military commander and politician of the Confederate States of America.He was a cavalry general in the Confederate States Army in the 1860s during the American Civil War, and then a general in the United States Army during both the Spanish-American and Philippine–American Wars near the turn of the twentieth century.