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[4] [better source needed] While both hat insignia and sleeve insignia were used here the primary indicator were shoulder straps. Only line officers wore those straps shown below as officers of various staff departments (medical, pay, engineering and naval construction) had separate ranks and different straps.
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]
Brigadier general rank: October 4, 1863 nom: October 6, 1863 conf: February 17, 1864 Son of Irish immigrants. Mexican–American War. Commanded 4th Mississippi State Troops, Army of 10,000, then colonel 32nd Mississippi Infantry in 1862. Lowry, Robert: Brigadier general rank: February 4, 1865 nom: February 8, 1865 conf: February 13, 1865
Confederate States Army; General officers in the Confederate States Army; List of American Civil War generals (Confederate) Ranks and insignia of the Confederate States; Uniforms of the Confederate States Armed Forces; Wikipedia:Graphics Lab/Illustration workshop/Archive/Feb 2014
General in Chief of the Armies of the Confederate States; List of American Civil War generals (Confederate) List of American Civil War generals (Acting Confederate) General officers in the Confederate States Army
The men serving in the highest rank as Confederate States generals, such as Samuel Cooper and Robert E. Lee, were enrolled in the ACSA to ensure that they outranked all militia officers. Confederate States State militias were organized and commanded by the state governments, similar to those authorized by the United States Militia Act of 1792.
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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 ...