CSA President Jefferson Davis 

The president was indirectly elected by the people through the Electoral College to a six-year term, and was one of only two nationally elected Confederate officers, the other being the Vice President of the Confederate States. On February 18, 1861, Jefferson Davis became president of the provisional government. On February 22, 1862, he became president of the permanent government and served in that capacity until being captured by elements of the United States Cavalry in 1865.

Jefferson Davis' 1861 Inaugural in Montgomery, AL

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V. P. Alexander H. Stephens of Georgia

The Vice President of the Confederate States of America, who served under President Jefferson Davis of Mississippi from February 18, 1861 to May 11, 1865. Having first been elected by the Provisional Confederate States Congress, both were considered provisional office-holders until they won the presidential election of November 6, 1861 without opposition.

CSA VP Alexander Stephens 1812-1883

Secretary of War James A. Seddon

Secretary of State Robert M. T. Hunter

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Four versions of the flag of the Confederate States of America are shown on this print from 1896. Standing at the center are Stonewall Jackson, P. G. T. Beauregard, and Robert E. Lee, surrounded by bust portraits of Jefferson Davis and Confederate Army officers.

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Gen Joseph Hooker and his horse

President Abe Lincoln Nov 19 1863 gives the Gettysburg Address

Brigadier General Lloyd Tilghman, C.S.A

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Brigadier General John Adams,

CSA Major Gen William B Bate

General Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard  

Brig. Gen Goode Bryan

Major General Patrick R. Cleburne

Patrick Ronayne Cleburne was promoted in the Confederate army at an astounding rate – enlisting as a private in early 1861, and rising to the rank of Major General by December 1862.  Highly respected by both his soldiers and his enemies, he showed great physical and moral courage.  In fact, it took great courage to issue his controversial – but sincere – January 1864 proposal to arm slaves to fight for the Confederacy.      

Brigadier General Philip Cook 4th GA Volunter Infantry

*Seminole War, 1836. *Georgia state senator.* 4th Georgia Infantry, Private, April 1861, Sergeant, May 1861, 1st Lieutenant, Assistant Adjutant General,October 2, 1861, Lt. Colonel, August 1862, Colonel, November 1, 1862. *Wounded three times,the last at Fort Stedman on March 25, 1865. *Captured while in hospital, Petersburg, Virginia, April 2, 1865.

Captain William W. Cosby of  H Company, 2nd Virginia Light Artillery Regiment 

Lieutenant Horatio J. David of Company B, 16th Georgia Infantry Regiment

CSA Col John Warren Grigsby 

CSA Major Gen Benjamin Huger 

Brig Gen George P Harrison

Maj Gen Thomas Carmichael Hindman

Promoted to the rank of brigadier general in September of 1861, Hindman took command of a brigade in the Army of Mississippi at Corinth. During the Battle of Shiloh in Tennessee on April 6, 1862, Hindman's horse was struck by an artillery shell but Hindman suffered only minor wounds, and earned a promotion to major general. Thomas Carmichael Hindman was a bold and militant man who would recover from his wounds in several battles of the Civil War, only to meet a tragic and violent end at the hands of an assassin.     

CSA Gen Robert Hoke

Gen. Thomas Jonathan 'Stonewall' Jackson 

Commander Matthew F. Maury 

CSA Gen Peter A. S. McGlashan

Promoted to the rank of Brigadier in April 1865 - he was the last appointed General of the Confederacy.    

Gen William Miller 

CSA Gen Sterling Price 

CSA Gen William Payne 

CSA Gen William Mahone 

CSA Gen William Mahone1865 

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Gen William T Sherman

 Col Isaac Erwin Avery CSA

Maj. Gen. Ambrose P. Hill or 'Little Powell', CS Army, commanding Second Army Corps. Known as a particularly ferocious fighter, Ambrose Hill was promoted to Confederate lieutenant general shortly before his death in 1865. Like many other Virginians, the West Point graduate followed his state onto the battlefield, helping Robert E. Lee defend Richmond against McClellan in 1862 and fighting alongside the legendary "Stonewall" Jackson . Ambrose Powell Hill was a professional soldier, an artilleryman from West Point (1847) who served the Confederacy in the infantry. After joining the army he jumped quickly from lieutenant to colonel of the 13th Virginia . He was at First Manassas, but spent the whole battle in reserve. He rose to command a brigade of Virginians at Williamsburg and Yorktown , the opening stages of the Peninsular Campaign. His performance earned him promotion to Major General (May 26, 1862) and command of a division in the battle at Hanover Court House. After the lull, while Lee took command, he fought brilliantly through the Seven Days Battles, then in Jackson ’s Corps at Cedar Mountain , Second Manassas, and the capture of Harper’s Ferry. On the 17th of September he was busy clearing up the Union forces at Harper’s Ferry, while McClellan was attacking Lee a few miles away at Antietam . Hill force-marched his division all day, arriving just as a Union attack was threatening to sweep through Lee’s weak right flank. Hill’s men had replaced their thread-bare grey coats with new blue ones; Burnside’s men were also expecting reinforcements on their flank. Instead, Hill’s men gave the Rebel yell and broke the Union charge. There was a bit more fighting, but Hill had saved the day. He was present, although not as effective, at Fredericksburg . He had been feuding with Jackson , which didn’t make his position any easier. His division was in the third line of Jackson ’s flank march at Chancellorsville; they saw little action on May 2, but that night Hill was part of Jackson ’s scouting party. When Jackson was wounded Hill helped apply a tourniquet. He then took command of the Corps (he was senior division commander) but only momentarily before he was lightly wounded himself. Without Jackson , Lee revised his command structure. Hill became a Corps commander, of the new III Corps. His subordinate, Henry Heth, nosed into Gettysburg and started the whole battle. Hill was unwell, and didn’t perform well at the battle. The disaster at Bristoe Station can also be laid at his feet: he simply didn’t perform as well as a Corps commander as he had as a division commander. He was in charge but not in command during The Wilderness – Lee knew that Hill wasn’t performing well, so he basically took over. He wasn’t fully fit, and took sick leave, missing Spotsylvania . He got to wear his red battle shirt again at North Anna and Cold Harbor, the last battles of the Overland Campaign as Grant edged around Richmond. Hill was on-again, off-again during the siege of Petersburg , sometimes present, but sometimes unwell. He was shot in the heart by a Union straggler on April 2, 1865. He’d just been at a conference with Lee as the Union were breaking through the defenses west of Petersburg. As Hill rode out to try and bolster the southern forces he didn’t realize how far the breakthrough had gone, and was dropped from his saddle. The veteran of a dozen battles was shot down at Petersburg, just before the war's end. 

Maj. Gen. Ambrose P. Hill 

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Colonel William R. Manning 

50th Georgia Volunteer Infantry

 March 22, 1862 through July 31, 1863

"The Pioneers of Wiregrass Georgia"  

The 50th Georgia Volunteer Infantry was an infantry regiment raised by the state of GA to fight for the Confederacy in the American Civil War. This regiment was formed in March 4th, 1862, in Savannah, Georgia, primarily from recruits from southern Georgia. The original commander was Col. William R. Manning (1817-1871). They were drilled at Camp Davis, just outside of Guyton, GA. Upon being mustered into service, the regiment served in the Savannah defenses. On July 17, 1862, Major General John C. Pemberton sent the 50th Georgia Volunteers to Richmond to join the Army of Northern Virginia under its commanding general, Robert E. Lee. It served with the Army of Northern Virginia from July 1862 until its surrender at Appomattox Court House, except during Longstreet's 1863 expedition to Georgia and Tennessee. Upon reaching Virginia, it was assigned to Drayton's Brigade. During the Battle of Antietam, the regiment was assigned to Toombs Brigade (in the South this battle is known as the battle of Sharpsburg), after the nearby town. Toomb's Georgia troops were credited with defending the bridge over Antietam creek against several ill fated attempts to cross it, until finally being pushed back late in the afternoon. After the battle, the 50th Regiment was permanently assigned to Paul Jones Semmes's Brigade. The subsequent brigade commanders were Goode Bryan and James P. Simms. For the majority of the war, the 50th Georgia served with the First Corps of the Army of Northern Virginia. The regiment participated in more than 45 engagements during the war. Some of the early battles in the East that the regiment took part in included South Mtn, Sharpsburg, Chancellorsville, and Gettysburg. The regiment went south when James Longstreet took his corps to Georgia and Tennesse in the fall of 1863, where it was engaged at the Siege of Knoxville. Returning to Virginia, the 50th Georgia fought in the Siege of Petersburg, The Battle of Cedar Creek and the Battle of Sayler's Creek. The remaining men surrendered at the Appomattox Court House on April 9th, 1865. After parole, they returned to Georgia and civilian life... 

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Brig. General Robert Bullock

C.S.A Brig Gen Edward Porter Alexander 

Edward Porter Alexander was one of only three Confederate officers to rise to the rank of general in the artillery branch.  Respected by some of the Confederacy’s most important commanders, Alexander would participate in nearly every major campaign in the eastern theatre, contributing substantially to the army’s greatest successes and sharing in its bitterest defeats. 

CSA Gen Braxton Bragg

When the War Between the States broke out, Confederate President Jefferson Davis made Bragg a brigadier general. Davis' faith in Bragg's abilities stemmed from an incident that occurred during the Mexican War. Davis' Mississippi regiment had been among the few American soldiers who had refused to retreat when the Mexicans attacked their left flank at the Battle of Buena Vista in February 1847. Just as Davis' regiment began to fall back under the assault, Bragg's troops arrived in force to hold off the Mexicans, allowing Davis to reorganize and hold his position.  

CSA Maj Gen John Cabell Breckinridge

Siding with the slaveholding faction of his native state during the secession crisis of 1861, Breckinridge resigned and accepted a post in the Confederacy as brigadier general, and was quickly promoted to major general in April of the following year.  He commanded at Shiloh and in the summer defense of Vicksburg.  Failing in an attack on Baton Rouge, he distinguished himself at Murfreesboro, in Johnston’s campaign to relieve Vicksburg, and at Chickamauga.      

CSA Lt Gen Simon Bolivar Buckner ~ KY

After the war, Buckner lived in New Orleans, since he was not permitted to reside in Kentucky for three years.  He returned to Kentucky in 1868, and was elected governor of Kentucky in 1887, where he served until 1891.     

CSA Lieutenant General John Bell Hood 

West Point Graduate at the age of 22, John Bell Hood was one of the most rapidly promoted leaders in the Confederate history of the Civil War.  After serving in California and Texas for the United States Military, he resigned his commission in April of 1861 to join the Confederacy as a cavalry captain.  From there, he was soon promoted to colonel of the Texas 4th Infantry.  Thereafter he distinguished himself on a dozen fields, beginning in the Peninsula Campaign and at Second Manassas.

 Brig Gen James Longstreet  

Was appointed Brigadier General under Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard and reported for duty in July of 1861.  Following his first action at Blackburn's Ford, Longstreet received praise for his coolness under fire and the manner in which he inspired his men.  Longstreet and Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson were both promoted to Major General under Joseph E. Johnston in October 1861.  Following his promotion Longstreet commanded a division of six brigades–the nucleus of what would eventually become the First Corps of the Army of Northern Virginia. 

Col. Walter H. Taylor 1864

Brigadier Gen Paul Jones Semmes 

Semmes was mortally wounded in the thigh while leading a charge across the Wheatfield at the Battle of Gettysburg on July 2, 1863

CSA Gen Martin Luther Smith