Civil War-Confederate
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 AP Hill Ambrose Powell Hill, commander of Robert E. Lee's Third Corps in the famous Army of Northern Virginia. A.P. Hill -- he is known by his initials in the historical annals but friends and family called him Powell as his mother had done -- was a man of contradictions. A splendid fighter who "came up" to save the day at Sharpsburg |
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Robert E. Lee The Federal authorities offered Lee the command of the field army about to invade the South, which he refused. Resigning his commission, he made his way to Richmond and was at once made a major-general in the Virginian forces. A few weeks later he became a brigadier-general (then the highest rank) in the Confederate service. |
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John Bell Hood In March of 1855, at the urging of U. S. Secretary of War Jefferson Davis, Congress authorized the formation of two new cavalry regiments that would protect settlements on the frontier of Texas. These two new units would be an elite corps, with the personnel being hand picked by the Army high command. The Second Regiment would be the more prestigious of the two, it? |
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Thomas Stonewall Jackson Thomas Jackson was a Professor of Natural and Experimental Philosophy & Instructor of Artillery at the Virginia Military Institue Faculty from August 1851 until the beginning of the Civil War in April 1861. Jackson died as a result of \friendly fire." He was shot at Chancellorsville on May 2 |
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James Longstreet Lieutenant General James Longstreet, commander of the famous old First Corps. |
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Jefferson Davis On February 18, 1861, the provisional Congress of the Confederate States made him provisional president. He was elected to the office by popular vote the same year for a 6-year term and was inaugurated in Richmond, Virginia, the capital of the Confederacy, on February 22, 1862. On May 10, 1865, federal troops captured him at Irwinville, Georgia. From 1865 to 1867 he was imprisoned at Fortress Monroe, Virginia. Davis was indicted for treason in 1866 but the next year was released on a bond of $100,000 signed by the American newspaper publisher Horace Greeley and other influential Northerners. In 1868 the federal government dropped the case against him. |
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Lewis Addison Armistead Armistead serve his country and was appointed to the 6th U.S. Infantry Regiment as a Second Lieutenant in 1839. Like many of his Southern comrades, Lewis A. Armistead resigned from the U.S. Army on May 26, 1861 to serve his beloved Virginia. |
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William (Billy) Bugg African American Confederate Naval Officer William (Billy) Bugg, appointed in the Confederate States Navy from the state of Georgia. He is shown as having served aboard the CSS Isondiga and the CSS Sampson, as well as the Savannah station, between 1863 and 1865. Because of the sparse nature of Confederate records, his pre-war and post war life is unknown. River Pilot Billy Bugg, negro, all of the CSS Sampson. |
