(Available records from the Civil War have major as the highest rank Hill attained. One biographical sketch from 1901 asserts that he was a lieutenant colonel when the war ended. In this photograph, he has the sleeve braids of a colonel and at...
(Collar lacks insignia; arrangement of buttons indicates rank of brigadier general.) 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; resigned from...
(Hill's homespun jacket displays the three stars of a colonel; however, his careless attitude toward proper uniforms is well known.) Ambrose Powell Hill (1825-1865) graduated from West Point, 1847. Resigned his U.S. Army commission in March 1861...
(No known wartime photograph. This photograph has been retouched to show him in a non-Confederate regulation uniform.) Seminole War veteran and antebellum congressman from Tennessee. Commissioned as a brigadier general in June 1861. Major...
(No uniformed photograph is known to exist). A prominent Georgia attorney and politician. Served as U.S. representative and U.S. senator before the war. Failing to become the first president of the Confederacy, Toombs settled for its first...
(No wartime uniformed photograph is known to exist. This photograph was probably taken at the time of Fort Sumter. - W. Davis.) Commissioned as a brigadier general in October 1861. Resigned his commission in February 1862 to take a seat in the...
(Photograph has been retouched to show insignia on uniform, probably early war years.) Graduated from West Point 1844; Mexican War veteran. Appointed a brigadier general into the Confederate Army in September 1861. Following his capture at Fort...
(Photograph in civilian attire.) Forrest enlisted into service shortly after Tennessee seceded and was soon authorized to raise a battalion of cavalry, which he did with personal funds. Forrest was elected a lieutenant colonel in October 1861. ...
(Photograph retouched to show Polk in non-Confederate regulation uniform.) 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...