(Photograph was retouched to show Smith in a non-Confederate regulation uniform. Probably a prewar photograph.) Graduated form West Point, 1845; Mexican War veteran. Resigned his U.S. Army commission in March 1861 and was commissioned as a...
(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. ...
(Uniform indicates rank of major general or higher.) Graduated from West Point, 1859. Resigned his U.S. Army commission and was commissioned as a first lieutenant in the Confederate Artillery in March 1861. After promoting through the grades,...
(Uniform indicates rank of brigadier general.) Shortly after the war began, Gordon raised a company of north Georgia mountain men known as the "Raccoon Roughs," which were attached to the 6th Alabama Infantry. He was elected major of the company...
(Photographed in civilian clothes.) Appointed as midshipman in 1826; spent most of his adult life at sea and various naval commands ashore. Resigned his U.S. Navy commission in February 1861 and was appointed as a commander in the Confederate...
(Uniform indicates rank of brigadier general.) Commissioned as a first lieutenant in the Montgomery True Blues and appointed a major in the 18th Alabama Infantry. After promoting through the grades, Holtzclaw was promoted to brigadier general in...
(Uniform indicates rank of major.) Graduated from Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1856. Entered Confederate service as a first lieutenant in Captain Jim Henry Malone's company in 1861. Later became a surgeon for the...
(Photographed in civilian attire.) Appointed captain in the Mississippi State Army in April 1861; entered Confederate service in May 1861. After promoting through the grades, Harris was promoted to brigadier general in January 1864. Major...
(Photographed in civilian attire.) Graduated form West Point; 1846; Mexican War veteran. Resigned his U.S. Army commission and was commissioned as a colonel in the 9th Alabama Infantry in July 1861. Promoted to brigadier general in October 1861...
(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...
Served as the governor of Virginia from 1860 to 1864. Following the war, Letcher practiced law and played a minor role in Virginia's post-war politics. He died in Lexington in January 1884. Source: Faust, Patricia, ed. Historical Time...
Antebellum lawyer and U.S. representative from Ohio. An ardent opponent of President Abraham Lincoln, he was imprisoned during the war and later banished to the Confederacy. Vallandigham was also critical of Confederate President Jefferson Davis,...