(Cap in photograph appears to have insignia of a lieutenant.) Resigned U.S. Navy commission in May 1861 and was commissioned into the Confederate Navy. Later commanded the Confederate raider, C.S.S. Florida, which captured approximately 55 Union...
(Photograph has a colonel's insignia on his collar, but the button arrangement of a brigadier general. Although photographed many times as a general, Thompson was never promoted above the rank of lieutenant colonel.) Raised a battalion to fight for...
(Photograph has been retouched to show him in uniform although he was not a soldier.) Nicknamed "Father of Secession." Ante-bellum congressman and senator from South Carolina. One of a group of Southern politicians known as "Fire Eaters" for...