GENERAL THOMAS F. DRAYTON

(1808-1891) Brother of Captain Percival Drayton of the Union Navy. He graduated from the West Point class of 1828, in the same class with Jefferson Davis, who became his lifelong friend. On Sept. 25, 1861, he was appointed a brigadier general in the Confederate Army and commanded the defenses of Port Royal, S.C. He was later attached to Gen. James Longstreet's Corps of the Army of Northern Virginia and took part in the battles of 2nd Manassas, South Mountain and Sharpsburg. During the last 2 years of the war Drayton served in the Trans-Mississipi...  

GENERAL JOHN C. BRECKENRIDGE

(1821-75) After attending Centre College and Transylvania University, he began practicing law in his home town of Lexington, Ky. in 1845. A member of the Kentucky legislature from 1849-51, he became Vice President of the United States in 1856 in the Buchanan administration. On Nov. 2, 1861, he accepted a commission as brigadier general in the Confederate army, and was promoted to major general to rank from April 14, 1862. He served at Shiloh, Vicksburg, Baton Rouge, Murfreesboro where he distinguished himself, Chickamauga, and the 1864 Shenandoah Valley...  

GENERAL J.E.B. STUART

(1833-1864) Graduated #13 in the West Point class of 1854. He was wounded on the frontier during Indian fighting. He was the aide of Colonel R. E. Lee during John Brown's raid of Harpers Ferry. During the Civil War he became one of the most daring and legendary cavalry commanders, serving with Gen. Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia. He was mortally wounded on May 11, 1864, after intercepting Union General Phil Sheridan's raid at Yellow Tavern, Virginia, dying the next day. His death was a severe blow to the Confederacy!

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GENERAL JAMES J. ARCHER

(1817-64) After graduation from Princeton in 1835, he studied law at the University of Maryland and was admitted to the bar. As a captain of infantry and then of voltigeurs in the regular army he received the brevet of major for gallantry at Chapultepec in the Mexican War. He then continued with his legal profession until 1855, when again he entered the regular army as captain of the 9th Infantry. Resigning his commission in 1861, he was mustered into Confederate service as colonel of the 5th Texas Infantry, being promoted to brigadier general on June 3,...  

GENERAL P.G.T. BEAUREGARD

(1818-93) The 4th highest ranking officer in the Confederacy, and one of the best known Confederate Generals to come out of the War Between The States. He graduated #2 in the West Point class of 1838, and was brevetted captain and major for gallantry in the Mexican War. He was in command at Charleston, S.C., in April 1861, during the bombardment and capture of Fort Sumter, and rose to instant fame in the Confederacy. He also saw action at 1st Manassas, Shiloh, the 1863-64 Charleston, S.C. campaign, Bermuda Hundred and Petersburg, Va. Beauregard was a...  

MORE CONFEDERATE FACES

A Pictorial Review of Confederate Soldiers, Sailors and Veterans. By William A. Albaugh, III. ABS Printers, Inc., Washington (1972). 8 1/2 x 11 1/2, hard cover. No dust jacket. 233 pages, 523 plates, appendix with additional information on each image. Very light wear. A clean, tight copy, in very fine to excellent condition. Great reference work. Out of print and hard to find in this original first printing.

GENERAL JUBAL A. EARLY

(1816-94) Graduated in the West Point class of 1837. After fighting against the Seminoles, he resigned to study law and afterwards began practice in Rocky Mount, Va. He became a member of the house of delagates, and the commonwealth's attorney, and when war broke out with Mexico he was a major of Virginia volunteers. At the start of the Civil War he was promptly appointed as colonel of the 24th Va. Inf., which he led at 1st Manassas. He was promoted to rank of brigadier general to rank from July 21, 1861, and took part in all the engagements of the Army...  

GENERAL SIMON B. BUCKNER

(1823-1914) Graduated in the West Point class of 1844. He was wounded and brevetted for gallantry in the Mexican War. Appointed a brigadier general in the Confederate Army on September 14, 1861, he saw action at Fort Donelson where he was forced to surrender the fort to his old friend and West Point classmate, General U.S. Grant. He was confined at Fort Warren prison for 5 months. After his release, he led a division in Bragg's Kentucky campaign, and a corps at Chickamauga, and later received promotion to lieutenant general to rank from September 20,...  

GENERAL JAMES LONGSTREET

(1821-1904) "Old Pete" and "Lee's Old War Horse" were two names commonly used when referring to General James Longstreet. He commanded the 1st Corps, of General Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia, for most of the war. He fought at 1st Manassas, in the Virginia Peninsula campaign, at 2nd Manassas, Sharpsburg, Fredericksburg and Gettysburg. He was briefly sent west by General Lee to bolster that army and saw action at Chickamauga and Knoxville. Returning east, he fought in the battle of the Wilderness where he was severely...  

ROBERT BARNWELL RHETT

The Father of Secession!

(1800-76) Born in Beaufort, S.C., he studied law, was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Beaufort in 1824. He served as a member of the South Carolina House of Representatives, 1826-32, and was elected Attorney General of South Carolina in 1832. From 1837-49, he served as U.S. Congressman, and from 1850-52, as U.S. Senator. Extremely pro-Southern in his views, Rhett was one of the leading fire-eaters at the 1850 Nashville Convention which failed to endorse his plan of secession for the entire South. He...  

GENERAL WILLIAM J. HARDEE

(1815-73) Known as "Old Reliable" he graduated from West Point in 1838. He was twice brevetted for gallantry in Mexico. Afterwards he served as commandant of cadets at West Point and wrote the standard textbook, "Rifle and Light Infantry Tactics," which was later used by both armies in the Civil War. When his native state of Georgia seceded from the Union, he resigned his lieutenant colonelcy in the U.S. Army and was appointed brigadier general in the Confederacy on June 17, 1861 and major general on Oct. 7th. He saw action at Shiloh,...  

GENERAL JOSEPH E. JOHNSTON

(1807-1891) Graduated in the West Point class of 1825. One of his classmates was Robert E. Lee. He served with great distinction in the Seminole and Mexican Wars, in which he was wounded and brevetted repeatedly. He was commissioned a brigadier general in the Confederate Army in May 1861. The forces he commanded at Harpers Ferry linked up in time to fight with General Beauregard at 1st Manassas, turning the tide of battle in favor of the Confederacy. This performance earned him a full generalcy and the command of the Army of Northern Virginia. He fought...