(Uniform indicates rank of major general.) Graduated from West Point, 1842; Mexican War veteran. Resigned his U.S. Army commission in 1854. Commissioned as a brigadier general in the Confederate Army in September 1861 and promoted to major...
(Photograph appears to be an artistically retouched pre-war image.) Graduated from West Point, 1842; Mexican War veteran. Resigned his U.S. Army commission in 1854. Commissioned as a brigadier general in the Confederate Army in September 1861 and...
(Uniform indicates rank of major general.) Graduated from West Point, 1842; Mexican War veteran. Resigned his U.S. Army commission in 1854. Commissioned as a brigadier general in the Confederate Army in September 1861 and promoted to major...
(Uniform indicates rank of major general.) Graduated from West Point, 1842; Mexican War veteran. Resigned his U.S. Army commission in 1854. Commissioned as a brigadier general in the Confederate Army in September 1861 and promoted to major...
(Uniform indicates rank of major general.) Graduated from West Point, 1827; resigned his U.S. Army commission shortly afterward to pursue a career in the ministry. Appointed a major general in the Confederate Army in June 1861 and lieutenant...
(Rank in photograph undetermined. He has the stars on his collar of a colonel, but the button arrangement of a brigadier general.) Graduated from West Point, 1837; Seminole War and Mexican War veteran. Resigned his U.S. Army commission in 1856 and...
(Uniform indicates rank of major general.) Mexican War veteran, U.S. congressman, and governor of Missouri before the war. Appointed as a major general in the Missouri State Guard at the start of the war. After campaigning in Missouri and...
(Uniform indicates rank of brigadier general.) Graduated from West Point, 1842; Mexican War veteran. Resigned his U.S. Army commission in January 1861 and was commissioned as colonel in the Confederate Cavalry in March 1861. Promoted to brigadier...
Entered the U.S. Navy as a midshipman in 1815. Served numerous commands at sea and ashore, including the Naval Academy's first superintendent; Mexican War veteran. Resigned his U.S. Navy commission in April 1861 and was commissioned as a captain...
President of the Confederate States of America. Graduated from West Point, 1828. Although Davis resigned his U.S. Army commission in 1835 to become a Mississippi planter, he served in the Mexican War. Served as both a U.S. representative and...
Raised in South Carolina, Benjamin moved to New Orleans to practice law and later held several minor political offices. Served as a U.S. senator for Louisiana. Resigned from Senate in February 1861 to become Attorney General for the Confederate...
Vice-President of the Confederate States of America. After the war, Stephens returned to Georgia and practiced law. Elected to Congress in 1872 and served until elected governor in 1882. Stephens died Atlanta in March 1883. Source: Faust,...
(No wartime uniformed photographs are known to exist.-- W. Davis) Graduated from West Point, 1815. Resigned his U.S. Army commission in 1861 and was appointed a brigadier general in the Confederate Army in March 1861. Promoted to full general in...
(In this photograph, Lee's collar lacks a general's wreath around the three stars, but his buttons are arranged like a brigadier general.) Graduated from West Point, 1829; Mexican War veteran. Resigned his U.S. Army commission in April 1861 and...
(Collar on uniform indicates rank of colonel, but the button arrangement is that of a brigadier general.) Graduated from West Point, 1829; Seminole War and Mexican War veteran. Resigned his U.S. Army commission in April 1861 and was appointed as...
(Uniform in photograph does not indicate rank; photo taken on March 31, 1861. -- W. Davis) Graduated from West Point, 1838; Mexican War veteran. Appointed Superintendent of West Point in January 1861 but held the post for only a few days;...
(Photograph indicates rank of brigadier general.) Thomas Jackson "Stonewall" Jackson graduated from West Point in 1842; Mexican War veteran. Resigned his U.S. Army commission in 1851 and taught at the Virginia Military Institute for the next ten...
(Uniform indicates rank of brigadier general.) Graduated from West Point, 1842; Mexican War veteran. Resigned his U.S. Army commission in June 1861 and was commissioned as a brigadier general in the Confederate Army shortly afterward. Promoted...