Folder contains 212 pages on several ethnic groups found in Alabama. These papers were compiled during the Works Progress Administration (WPA) in the late-1930s.
(Collar indicates rank of brigadier general, though the button arrangement does not.) Graduated from West Point, 1846; Mexican War veteran. Resigned his U.S. Army commission in May 1861 and was commissioned as a lieutenant colonel in the...
(No photograph in uniform is known to exist.) Mexican War veteran. Appointed Commissioner of Indian Affairs by the Confederate government at the outbreak of war. Commissioned as a brigadier general in August 1861. Responsible for the Department...
(Not in uniform in photograph). Veteran of the Texas War of Independence and the Mexican War. Commissioned as a brigadier general in the Confederate Army in May 1861. Major campaigns and battles include Wilson's Creek and Pea Ridge. Killed in...
(Photographed in civilian attire.) 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 general in...
(Uniform indicates rank of brigadier general in Missouri state militia). Graduated from West Point, 1844; Mexican War veteran. Brigadier general of the Missouri state militia who favored secession; forced to surrender in May 1861 to local Union...
(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...
(Uniform indicates rank of brigadier general.) Graduated from West Point, 1856. Resigned his U.S. Army commission in March 1861 and was commissioned as a lieutenant colonel in the Confederate Army shortly afterward. After promoting through the...
(Uniform indicates rank of brigadier general.) When the Civil War began, Cockrell raised a company for the Missouri militia that saw action in Missouri before being transferred into Confederate service. Major campaigns and battles include Pea...