Autograph, General John B. Gordon

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(1832-1904) Born in Upson County, Ga., he had one of the most spectacular Civil War and postbellum careers of any civilian who fought for the Confederacy. His army service began in 1861 with his election as captain of a mountaineer company from northwest Georgia called the "Raccoon Roughs," and ended at Appomattox Court House as a corps commander. In between he fought magnificently on every battlefield in which the Army of Northern Virginia participated, except when he was absent from wounds. During the battle of...  

Autograph, Colonel John C. Haskell

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(1841-1906) Served as a lieutenant in the 1st South Carolina Artillery. Also served respectively on the staffs of Generals' G.W. Smith and David R. Jones, and was aide-de-camp of General James Longstreet during the battle of Fredericksburg. Colonel Haskell lost his right arm at the battle of Gaines' Mill, Va., while in command of an artillery battalion, was in command of General John Bell Hood's artillery at Gettysburg, and was much distinguished in his services at Petersburg. His accounts of the Appomattox campaign were...  

Autograph, General Lafayette McLaws

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(1821-97) Born at Augusta, Ga., he was a nephew of President Zachary Taylor by marriage. He graduated from West Point in 1842 along with his future corps commander, James Longstreet. He fought in the Mexican War and resigned his U.S. Army commission on Mar. 23, 1861. At the outbreak of the Civil War, he helped organize the 10th Georgia Infantry, and was appointed their colonel. He was then promoted to brigadier general on Sept. 25, 1861, and major general on May 23, 1862. He fought in the Peninsular campaign, at Antietam,...  

Autograph, General Joseph Wheeler

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(1836-1906) Born at Augusta, Ga., he graduated in the West Point class of 1859. He resigned his commission in the U.S. Army on April 22, 1861, and in September was appointed colonel of the 19th Alabama Infantry, with which he fought with at Shiloh. Soon after he was transferred to the cavalry and on July 13, 1862, General Bragg appointed him chief of cavalry of the Army of the Mississippi. From that time until the close of the war he was almost constantly engaged in battle. Three times wounded, 36 staff officers fell by...  

Autograph General William B. Taliaferro

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(1822-98) Graduated from William & Mary and studied law at Harvard. He served as a captain of U.S. Infantry during the Mexican War. He represented Gloucester County, Va. in the State house of delegates from 1850 to 1853, and commanded the Virginia Militia at the time of John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry. He served for a time on the Peninsula as major general of militia in the early days of the Civil War, and then, as colonel of the 23rd Virginia Infantry. He was with General Robert S. Garnett in western Virginia, under...  

Francis R. Lubbock, Confederate Governor of Texas

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(1815-1905) Lubbock served as clerk of the Texas Congress and Comptroller in 1837; he was the Democratic Lieutenant Governor of Texas, 1857-59; and Governor of Texas, 1861-63. During his term as governor he mobilized the state's manpower and resources in support of the Confederacy. Near the end of the Civil War he served as a staff officer in the Confederate Army and was among those captured with President Jefferson Davis in Georgia in May 1865. He was elected State Treasurer of Texas in 1878 and held that office until his...  

CDV & Autograph General Benjamin F. Cheatham

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(1820-86) Fought in the Mexican War as a colonel of Tennessee Volunteers. Later became major general of Tennessee state militia. He was appointed a Confederate brigadier general on July 9, 1861, and major general to rank from March 10, 1862. He distinguished himself as a brigade, division, and corps commander in every engagement of the Army of Tennessee from Shiloh to Atlanta. He also saw service in the Franklin and Nashville campaign. After the war he was superintendant of Tenn. state prisons, and postmaster of...  

General Wade Hampton

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(1818-1902) He served in both houses of the South Carolina legislature, 1852-61. In 1861, he was reputed to be the largest landowner in the South. He organized and equipped at his own expense the famed "Hampton Legion," taking them to Virginia in time to fight in the battle of 1st Manassas, where he was wounded. He commanded an infantry brigade in the Virginia Peninsular campaign, and then in the summer of 1862, was assigned a cavalry command under General J.E.B. Stuart. He participated in most of their...  

General Alfred E. Jackson

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(1807-89) Born in Davidson County, Tennessee. Educated at Washington and Greeneville Colleges. He became an extremely successful dealer of produce and manufactured goods trading all over the South. His various businesses included stores, mills, factories and farms which operated from North Carolina to the Mississippi River. Jackson enlisted in the Confederate Army in 1861, and was appointed quartermaster on the staff of General Felix K. Zollicoffer, with whom he served until the latter's death at the battle of Mill's...