(Uniform indicates rank of brigadier general.) Crimean War veteran. Polignac, an acquaintance of P. G. T. Beuregard, was in Paris, France, when the war began, but he offered his services to the Confederacy. Commissioned as a lieutenant colonel...
(Uniform indicates rank of colonel.) Mexican War veteran. Commissioned as a lieutenant colonel in the 3rd Alabama Infantry at the outbreak of war. After promoting through the grades, Lomax was promoted to brigadier general in 1862. Major...
(No photograph in uniform is known to exist.) Appointed Secretary of War for the Confederate States in February 1861 and resigned the post in September 1861. Appointed as a brigadier general in September 1861 and resigned in March 1862. Spent...
Appointed Secretary of War for the Confederate States in February 1861 and resigned the post in September 1861. Appointed as a brigadier general in September 1861 and resigned in March 1862. Spent the remainder of the war as an attorney and...
(In West Point cadet uniform.) Resigned from West Point in April 1861 and was commissioned as a first lieutenant in the Confederate Artillery shortly afterward. Promoted to major in the summer of 1862. Major campaigns and battles include First...
(Uniform indicates rank of colonel.) Mexican War veteran. Commissioned as a lieutenant colonel in the 3rd Alabama Infantry at the outbreak of war. After promoting through the grades, Lomax was promoted to brigadier general in 1862. Major...
The correspondence was written in regard to Pickett's research for his book HISTORY OF ALABAMA AND INCIDENTALLY OF GEORGIA AND MISSISSIPPI FROM THE EARLIEST TIMES.