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See incomplete appointments section in List of American Civil War Generals (Acting Confederate). Martin, William T. Brigadier general rank, nom: December 2, 1862 conf: April 22, 1863 Major general rank: November 10, 1863 nom: November 12, 1863 conf: January 25, 1864 Captain, Mississippi Cavalry, July 8, 1861. Jeff Davis Legion, major, October ...
Sheridan leads the charge at Five Forks (Frederick Phisterer, 1912). The American Civil War saw extensive use of horse-mounted soldiers on both sides of the conflict. They were vital to both the Union Army and Confederate Army for conducting reconnaissance missions to locate the enemy and determine their strength and movement, and for screening friendly units from being discovered by the enemy ...
Details concerning Confederate officers who were appointed to duty as generals late in the war by General E. Kirby Smith in the Confederate Trans-Mississippi Department, who have been thought of generals and exercised command as generals but who were not duly appointment and confirmed or commissioned, and State militia generals who had field commands in certain actions in their home states but ...
The United States Military Academy (USMA) is an undergraduate college in West Point, New York, that educates and commissions officers for the United States Army. Confederate President Jefferson Davis, himself a former officer and West Point graduate (class of 1828), preferred West Point trained officers for the Confederate States Army (CSA ...
These generals were most often infantry or cavalry brigade commanders, aides to other higher-ranking generals, and War Department staff officers. By the war's end, the Confederacy had at least 383 different men who held this rank in the PACS and three in the ACSA: Samuel Cooper, Robert E. Lee, and Joseph E. Johnston. [9]
This category is for articles about men who served as officers in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War (1861–1865). Subcategories This category has the following 3 subcategories, out of 3 total.
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, officers whose appointments were never confirmed or ...
4th Texas Cavalry Battalion (dismounted) Maj John W. Whitfield: 7: 3: 4: 14 McIntosh's Cavalry Brigade BG James M. McIntosh (k) Col Elkanah Greer (3,000 cavalry) [3] 3rd Texas Cavalry Regiment: Col Elkanah Greer Ltc Walter P. Lane: 2: 12: 0: 14 6th Texas Cavalry Regiment: Col B. Warren Stone: 3: 3: 13: 19 9th Texas Cavalry Regiment: Col William ...