Stonewall Jackson of the Confederates.
There are several versions of this story - people still think something is being covered-up.
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R.S. Garnett was Robert Selden Garnett and he was a Confederate general and he was the first Confederate general killed during the Civil War. His cousin, Richard Brooke Garnett was killed during Pickett's Charge on July 3, 1863.
about 1,000,000 per person killed
No he lived on past the Civil War.
During the US Civil War James Longstreet was a general in the Confederate Army.
George Brinton McClellan was an American soldier, civil engineer, railroad executive, and politician.
Stonewall Jackson
Thaddeus Strawinski of the Columbia artillery brigade of South Carolina.
General Albert Sidney Johnston commanded the Confederate Army of the Mississippi at the Battle of Shiloh. He was killed the afternoon of April 6, 1862 and command fell to General P.G.T. Beauregard who led the battle on the 7th. The battle was a draw, and Johnston was the highest ranking soldier to die during the US Civil War.
Confederate General Robert Seldon Garnett was the first general from either side to die in the US Civil War. He was killed shortly after the Battle of Rich Mountain in 1861.
General Robert E. Lee of Virginia, and Gen Stonewall Jackson, who was killed during the war.
Pretty good. About one out of four Confederate soldiers died, twice as many from disease as compared to the number the Yankees killed. About one Yankee soldier out of six died, again, disease killed twice as many as the Rebels.