(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...
(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...