Confederate States of America - Military Leaders

Military Leaders

For more details on this topic, see General officers in the Confederate States Army.

Military leaders of the Confederacy (with their state or country of birth and highest rank) included:

  • Robert E. Lee (Virginia) – General-in-Chief of the Armies of the Confederate States
  • P.G.T. Beauregard (Louisiana) – General
  • Braxton Bragg (North Carolina) – General
  • Samuel Cooper (New York) – General
  • Albert Sidney Johnston (Kentucky) – General
  • Joseph E. Johnston (Virginia) – General
  • Jubal Early (Virginia) – Lieutenant General
  • Richard S. Ewell (Virginia) – Lieutenant General
  • Nathan Bedford Forrest (Tennessee) – Lieutenant General
  • Wade Hampton III (South Carolina) – Lieutenant General
  • A. P. Hill (Virginia) – Lieutenant General
  • John Bell Hood (Kentucky) – Lieutenant General (temporary General)
  • Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson (Virginia now West Virginia) – Lieutenant General
  • James Longstreet (South Carolina) – Lieutenant General
  • Leonidas Polk (North Carolina) – Lieutenant General
  • Richard Taylor (Kentucky) – Lieutenant General (son of U.S. President Zachary Taylor)
  • Patrick Cleburne (Ireland) – Major General
  • George Pickett (Virginia) – Major General
  • Camille Armand Jules Marie, Prince de Polignac (France) – Major General
  • Sterling Price (Missouri) – Major General
  • Stephen Dodson Ramseur (North Carolina) – Major General
  • Thomas L. Rosser (Virginia) – Major General
  • J.E.B. Stuart (Virginia) – Major General
  • John A. Wharton (Tennessee) – Major General
  • Edward Porter Alexander (Georgia) – Brigadier General
  • Francis Marion Cockrell (Missouri) – Brigadier General
  • John Hunt Morgan (Kentucky) – Brigadier General
  • William N. Pendleton (Virginia) – Brigadier General
  • Stand Watie (Georgia) – Brigadier General (last to surrender)
  • John S. Mosby, the "Grey Ghost of the Confederacy" (Virginia) – Colonel
  • Franklin Buchanan (Maryland) – Admiral
  • Raphael Semmes (Maryland) – Rear Admiral

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