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Joined. Aug 25, 2012. Sep 29, 2013. #1. During the civil War the Confederate Army had a large number of Full Generals, 8 in all. Not all these men were successful at that rank. I am going to attempt to give them a grade. Please note I am not attempting to grade them as Brigadier, Lieutenant or Major General just their performance as Full General.
There were quite a few Confederate Generals. Some who were killed, others wrote books on them. Name ADAMS, Daniel Weisiger. Born May/June 1821, Frankfort KY. Died June 13 1872, New Orleans LA. Pre-War Profession Lawyer. War Service 1861 Lt. Col. of 1st Louisiana Regulars, October 1861 Col., Pensacola, Shiloh (w), May 1862 Brig. Gen., commanded ...
War Service 1861 Lt. Col., June 1861 Brig. Gen., commanded 4th Bde/Army of the Shenandoah at First Manassas (w), October 1861 Maj. Gen., Richmond KY, October 1862 Lt. Gen. in command of Trans Mississippi Dept until the end of the War, February 1864 General, repelled the Red River expedition.
Regarding the ten surviving Confederate Generals from the list above, only one of the ten, Brig. General Samuel Wragg Ferguson, was a West Point graduate. As a matter of fact, in February 1914, Ferguson was the only one still living of the 255 West Point graduates who left the U.S. Army and joined the Confederate Army, the other 254 had already ...
When we talk about potential, I'd have to argue J. J. Pettigrew might be the man I'd select from the list of Confederate generals who died at Gettysburg. Pettigrew was a mathematical genius, was appointed as a professor of astronomy at the Naval Academy by James K. Polk, could speak fluently in five different languages, was a published author ...
War Service 1861 Col. of Missouri militia, Lt. Col. of 1st Arkansas Battalion, Col. of 3rd Confederate Infantry, Shiloh (w), November 1862 Brig. Gen., Prairie Grove, command of a cavalry division in Trans Mississippi, Red River campaign, Price's Missouri raid (c), March 1865 Maj. Gen. (while still in prison).
War Service April 1861 Maj. Gen. of Georgia state volunteers, May 1861 Brig. Gen. in Confederate army, resigned this commission October 1861, commissioned Maj. Gen. of Georgia state troops, March 1863 Brig. Gen. in Confederate army, May 1863 Maj. Gen., commanded Walker’s Bde in Vicksburg campaign, commanded Reserve Corps at Chickamauga ...
Copperhead-mi said: Off the top of my head, there are at least 2 U.S. tanks named for Civil War generals, the Sherman and the Sheridan. There were more than two. We must have some armor people who can answer this without much thought.
The list I saw had Tennessee as the state that had both the second most number of Confederate generals born there and Tennessee as the second state to have the most Cofederate genetals residents. Remember that I used a list already developed and can not verify the list"s accuracy.
Bruce Allardice seems to have a monopoly on recent Confederate reference works, with an assist from Lawrence Lee Hewitt. Kentuckians in Gray: Confederate Generals and Field Officers in the Bluegrass State and Confederate Colonels: A Biographical Register were both projects released in late 2008 by that author.