List of American Civil War generals
Union Generals
A
John Joseph Abercrombie
Robert Allen
Benjamin Alvord
Adelbert Ames
Jacob Ammen
Robert Anderson (major)
Christopher Columbus Andrews
George Leonard Andrews
Lewis Golding Arnold
Richard Arnold
Chester A. Arthur
Alexander Sandor Asboth
Christopher Columbus Augur
William Woods Averell
Romeyn Beck Ayres
B
Joseph Bailey
Absalom Baird
Edward Dickinson Baker
Lafayette C. Baker
Joseph Pope Balch
Nathaniel Prentiss Banks
Francis C. Barlow
John Gross Barnard
James Barnes
Joseph Barnes
Henry Alanson Barnum
William Farquhar Barry
Joseph Jackson Bartlett
William Francis Bartlett
Henry Baxter
George Dashiell Bayard
George Lafayette Beal
John Beatty
Samuel Beatty
William Worth Belknap
Henry Washington Benham
William Plummer Benton
Hiram George Berry
Daniel Davidson Bidwell
Henry Warner Birge
David B. Birney
William Birney
Francis Preston Blair
Louis Blenker
James G. Blunt
Henry Bohlen
James Bowen
Jeremiah Tilford Boyle
Luther Prentice Bradley
Edward S. Bragg
John Milton Brannan
Mason Brayman
Henry Shaw Briggs
Roeliff Brinkerhoff
James Sanks Brisbin
John Rutter Brooke
William T. H. Brooks
Egbert Benson Brown
Robert C. Buchanan
Catharinus Putnam Buckingham
Ralph P. Buckland
Don Carlos Buell
John Buford
Napoleon Bonaparte Buford
Stephen Gano Burbridge
Hiram Burnham
William Wallace Burns
Ambrose Everett Burnside
Cyrus Bussey
Richard Busteed
Benjamin Franklin Butler (politician)
C
George Cadwalader
John C. Caldwell
Robert Alexander Cameron
Charles Thomas Campbell
William Bowen Campbell
Edward Richard Sprigg Canby
James Henry Carleton
William Passmore Carlin
Eugene Asa Carr
Joseph Bradford Carr
Henry Beebee Carrington
Samuel Sprigg Carroll
Samuel Powhatan Carter
Silas Casey
Robert Francis Catterson
Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain
Alexander Chambers
Stephen Gardner Champlin
Edward Payson Chapin
George Henry Chapman
Augustus Louis Chetlain
Morgan Henry Chrysler
William Thomas Clark
Cassius Marcellus Clay
Powell Clayton
Gustave Paul Cluseret
John Cochrane
Patrick Edward Connor
Selden Connor
John Cook
Philip St. George Cooke
James Cooper
Joseph Alexander Cooper
Joseph Tarr Copeland
Michael Corcoran
John Murray Corse
Darius Nash Couch
Robert Cowdin
Jacob Dolson Cox
James Craig
Samuel Wylie Crawford
Thomas Leonidas Crittenden
Thomas Turpin Crittenden
Marcellus Monroe Crocker
George Crook
John Thomas Croxton
Charles Cruft
George Washington Cullum
Newton Martin Curtis
Samuel Ryan Curtis
George Armstrong Custer
Lysander Cutler
D
Napoleon Jackson Tecumseh Dana
John Wynn Davidson
Henry Eugene Davies
Thomas Alfred Davies
Edmund J. Davis
Jefferson Columbus Davis
George Dietzler
Richard Delafield
Elias Smith Dennis
Frederick Tracy Dent
James W. Denver
Gustavus Adolphus Derussy
Régis de Trobriand
Charles Devens
Thomas Devin
Joel Dewey
John Watts de Peyster
John Adams Dix
Charles Cleveland Dodge
Grenville M. Dodge
Charles Doolittle
Abner Doubleday
Neal Dow
Alfred Napoleon Alexander Duffie
Ebenezer Dumont
Abram Duryee
Isaac H. Duval
William Dwight
Alexander Brydie Dyer
E
Amos Beebe Eaton
John Edwards
Oliver Edwards
Thomas Wilberforce Egan
Alfred W. Ellet
Washington Lafayette Elliott
William H. Emory
George Peabody Estey
Henry Lawrence Eustis
Charles Ewing
Hugh Boyle Ewing
Thomas Ewing, Jr.
F
Lucius Fairchild
Elon J. Farnsworth
John F. Farnsworth
Edward Ferrero
Orris S. Ferry
Francis Fessenden
James Deering Fessenden
Clinton B. Fisk
Manning Force
James W. Forsyth
John G. Foster
Robert Sanford Foster
William B. Franklin
John C. Fremont
William H. French
James Barnet Fry
Speed S. Fry
John Wallace Fuller
G
William Gamble
James Abram Garfield
Kenner Garrard
Theophilus Toulmin Garrard
Augustus Eugene Gauntry
John W. Geary
George W. Getty
John Gibbon
Alfred Gibbs
Charles Champion Gilbert
James Isham Gilbert
Alvan Cullem Gillem
Quincy Adams Gillmore
George Henry Gordon
Willis A. Gorman
Charles Kinnaird Graham
Lawrence Pike Graham
Gordon Granger
Robert S. Granger
Lewis A. Grant
Ulysses S. Grant
George S. Greene
David McMurtrie Gregg
Walter Q. Gresham
Benjamin Grierson
Charles Griffin
Simon Goodell Griffin
William Grose
Cuvier Grover
H
Pleasant A. Hackleman
Henry Wager Halleck
Joseph Eldridge Hamblin
Andrew J. Hamilton
Charles Smith Hamilton
Schuyler Hamilton
Cyrus Hamlin
William Alexander Hammond
Winfield Scott Hancock
James Allen Hardie
Martin Davis Hardin
Abner Clark Harding
Charles Garrison Harker
Edward Harland
William S. Harney
Thomas Maley Harris
Benjamin Harrison
William Harrow
John F. Hartranft
George L. Hartsuff
Milo S. Hascall
Joseph Abel Haskin
Edward Hatch
John Porter Hatch
Herman Haupt
John Parker Hawkins
Joseph Roswell Howley
Joseph Hayes
Rutherford B. Hayes
Isham N. Haynie
Alexander Hays
William Hays
William Babcock Hazen
Charles Adam Heckman
Samuel P. Heintzelman
Francis Jay Herron
Edward Winslow Hinks
Ethan A. Hitchcock
Edward H. Hobson
Joseph Holt
Joseph Hooker
Alvin P. Hovey
Charles Edward Hovey
Oliver Otis Howard
Albion P. Howe
Joshua B. Howell
Andrew A. Humphreys
Henry Jackson Hunt
Lewis Cass Hunt
David Hunter
Stephen A. Hurlbut
I
J
Conrad Feger Jackson
James S. Jackson
Nathaniel James Jackson
Richard Henry Jackson
Andrew Johnson
Charles Davis Jameson
Richard W. Johnson
Patrick Henry Jones
Henry M. Judah
K
Thomas L. Kane
August Kautz
Philip Kearny, nicknamed Kreamy
William High Keim
Benjamin Franklin Kelley
John R. Kenly
John H. Ketcham
William Scott Ketchum
Erasmus D. Keyes
James Lawlor Kiernan
Hugh Judson Kilpatrick
Nathan Kimball
John Haskell King
Rufus King (general)
Edmund Kirby
Edward N. Kirk
Joseph Farmer Knipe
Wladimir Krzyzanowski
L
Frederick W. Lander
James Henry Lane
Jacob G. Lauman
Michael Kelly Lawler
James H. Ledlie
Albert Lindley Lee
Mortimer Dormer Leggett
Joseph Andrew Jackson Lightburn
Henry Hayes Lockwood
John A. Logan
Eli Long
Thomas John Lucas
Nathaniel Lyon
William Haines Lytle
M
Ranald S. Mackenzie
Jasper Adalmorn Maltby
Joseph K. Mansfield
Mahlon Dickerson Manson
Randolph B. Marcy
Gillman Marston
John Henry Martindale
John Sanford Mason
John L. Matthies
John McArthur
George A. McCall
George B. McClellan
John Alexander McClernand
Alexander McDowell McCook
Daniel McCook
Edward M. McCook
Robert Latimer McCook
Irvin McDowell
George Francis McGinnis
John Baillie McIntosh
Thomas Jefferson McKean
Justus McKinstry
Nathaniel Collins McLean
James Winning McMillan
John McNeil
James B. McPherson
George Gordon Meade
Thomas Francis Meagher
Montgomery C. Meigs
Solomon Meredith
Sullivan Amory Meredith
Wesley Merritt
Nelson A. Miles
John Franklin Miller
Stephen Miller
Robert H. Milroy
Ormsby M. Mitchel
John Grant Mitchell
Robert Byington Mitchell
William Reading Montgomery
George W. Morell
Charles Hale Morgan
Edwin D. Morgan
George W. Morgan
James Dada Morgan
William Hopkins Morris
James St. Clair Morton
Gershom Mott
Joseph A. Mower
N
James Nagle
Henry Morris Naglee
James S. Negley
Thomas Hewson Neill
John Newton (engineer)
Franklin Stillman Nickerson
O
Richard James Oglesby
John Morrison Oliver
Emerson Opdyke
Edward Ord
William Ward Orme
Thomas Ogden Osborn
Peter J. Osterhaus
Joshua Thomas Owen
P
Charles Jackson Paine
Eleazar Arthur Paine
Halbert E. Paine
Innis N. Palmer
John M. Palmer (politician)
John Parke
Lewis Baldwin Parsons
Marsena R. Patrick
Francis Engle Patterson
Gabriel Rene Paul
John J. Peck
Galusha Pennypacker
William Henry Penrose
John S. Phelps
John W. Phelps
Abram Sanders Piatt
Byron Root Pierce
William A. Pile
Thomas Gamble Pitcher
Alfred Pleasonton
Joseph Bennett Plummer
Orlando Poe
John Pope
Andrew Porter
Fitz John Porter
Edward Elmer Potter
Joseph Haydn Potter
Robert Brown Potter
Benjamin Franklin Potts
William Henry Powell
Calvin Edward Pratt
Benjamin Prentiss
Henry Prince
Q
Isaac Ferdinand Quinby
R
George Douglas Ramsay
Thomas E. G. Ransom
Green Berry Raum
John Aaron Rawlins
Hugh Thompson Reid
James William Reilly
Jesse L. Reno
Joseph Warren Revere
John Fulton Reynolds
Joseph Jones Reynolds
Americus V. Rice
Elliott Warren Rice
James Clay Rice
Samuel Allen Rice
Israel B. Richardson
James B. Ricketts
James Wolfe Ripley
Benjamin S. Roberts
James S. Robinson
John C. Robinson
Isaac P. Rodman
William S. Rosecrans
Leonard Fulton Ross
Lovell Rousseau
Thomas Algeo Rowley
Daniel Henry Rucker
Thomas H. Ruger
David Allen Russell
S
Frederic C. Salomon
John Benjamin Salomon
William Price Sanders
Rufus Saxton
Eliakim P. Scammon
Robert Cumming Schenck
Alexander Schimmelfennig
Albin F. Schoepf
John Schofield
Carl Schurz
Robert Kingston Scott
Winfield Scott
John Sedgwick
William Henry Seward, Jr.
Truman Seymour
James M. Shackelford
Alexander Shaler
Isaac Fitzgerald Shepard
George F. Shepley
Philip Sheridan
Francis Trowbridge Sherman
Thomas W. Sherman
William Tecumseh Sherman
Henry Hastings Sibley
Daniel Sickles
Franz Sigel
Joshua W. Sill
James Richard Slack
Adam J. Slemmer
Henry Warner Slocum
John P. Slough
Andrew Jackson Smith
Charles Ferguson Smith
Giles A. Smith
Green Clay Smith
Gustavus Woodson Smith
John Eugene Smith
Morgan Lewis Smith
Thomas Church Haskell Smith
Thomas Kilby Smith
William Farrar Smith
William Sooy Smith
Thomas Alfred Smyth
James Gallant Spears
Francis Barretto Spinola
John Wilson Sprague
Julius Stahel
David S. Stanley
George J. Stannard
John Converse Starkweather
James B. Steedman
Frederick Steele
Isaac Stevens
John Dunlap Stevenson
Thomas Greely Stevenson
James Hughes Stokes
Charles John Stolbrand
Charles Pomeroy Stone
George Stoneman
Edwin H. Stoughton
George Crockett Strong
William Kerley Strong
David Stuart (politician)
Frederick Shearer Stumbaugh
Samuel Davis Sturgis
Jeremiah Cutler Sullivan
Alfred Sully
Edwin Vose Sumner
Wager Swayne
Thomas William Sweeny
George Sykes
T
George William Taylor
Joseph Pannell Taylor
Nelson Taylor
William R. Terrill
Alfred Terry
Henry Dwight Terry
John Milton Thayer
George Henry Thomas
Henry Goddard Thomas
Lorenzo Thomas
Stephen Thomas
Charles Mynn Thruston
William B. Tibbits
Davis Tillson
John Blair Smith Todd
Alfred Thomas Archimedes Torbert
Joseph Gilbert Totten
Zealous Bates Tower
John Turchin
John Wesley Turner
James Madison Tuttle
Daniel Tyler
Erastus Tyler
Robert Ogden Tyler
Hector Tyndale
U
Daniel Ullmann
Adin Ballou Underwood
Emory Upton
V
James Henry Van Allen
Horatio Phillips Van Cleve
Ferdinand Van Derveer
William Vandever
Stewart Van Vliet
Charles Van Wyck
James C. Veatch
Egbert Ludovicus Viele
Strong Vincent
Francis Laurens Vinton
Israel Vogdes
Adolph von Steinwehr
W
Melancthon S. Wade
James S. Wadsworth
George Day Wagner
Charles C. Walcutt
Lew Wallace
William Harvey Lamb Wallace
John Henry Hobart Ward
William Thomas Ward
James M. Warner
Gouverneur K. Warren
Cadwallader C. Washburn
Louis Douglass Watkins
Alexander S. Webb
Max Weber (general)
Joseph Dana Webster
Stephen H. Weed
Godfrey Weitzel
William Wells (general)
Thomas Welsh (general)
Henry Walton Wessels
Joseph R. West
Frank Wheaton
Amiel Weeks Whipple
William Denison Whipple
Walter Chiles Whitaker
Julius White
Edward A. Wild
Orlando Bolivar Willcox
Alpheus S. Williams
David Henry Williams
Nelson Grosvenor Williams
Seth Williams
Thomas Williams
James Alexander Williamson
August Willich
James H. Wilson
Isaac J. Wistar
Thomas J. Wood
Daniel Phineas Woodbury
Charles Robert Woods
William Burnham Woods
John E. Wool
George Wright (general)
Horatio Wright
Z
Confederate Generals
A
- Daniel Weisiger Adams
- John Adams (Confederate Army officer)
- William Wirt Adams
- James L. Alcorn
- Edward Porter Alexander
- Henry Watkins Allen
- William W. Allen
- George B. Anderson
- George T. Anderson
- James Patton Anderson
- Joseph R. Anderson
- Richard H. Anderson
- Robert H. Anderson
- James J. Archer
- Lewis Addison Armistead
- Frank Crawford Armstrong
- Turner Ashby
B
- Arthur P. Bagby, Jr.
- Alpheus Baker
- Laurence S. Baker
- William Edwin Baldwin
- William Barksdale
- Rufus Barringer
- Seth Barton
- Francis S. Bartow
- William Brimage Bate
- Cullen A. Battle
- Richard Lee Turberville Beale
- Lloyd J. Beall (Colonel-Commandant of Confederate States Marine Corps)
- William Beall
- Pierre Beauregard
- Barnard E. Bee Jr.
- Hamilton Prioleau Bee
- Henry Benning
- Albert G. Blanchard
- William R. Boggs
- Milledge Luke Bonham
- Solon Borland
- John Stevens Bowen
- Pinckney Downie Bowles
- Braxton Bragg
- Lawrence O'Bryan Branch
- William F. Brantley
- John Bratton
- John C. Breckinridge
- John Calvin Brown
- William Montague Browne
- Goode Bryan
- Simon Bolivar Buckner, Sr.
- Abraham Buford
- Robert Bullock
- Matthew Calbraith Butler
C
- William L. Cabell
- Ellison Capers
- William Henry Carroll
- John C. Carter
- James R. Chalmers
- John R. Chambliss
- Augustus A. Chapman
- Benjamin F. Cheatham
- James Chesnut
- Robert H. Chilton
- Thomas J. Churchill
- John Bullock Clark
- John Bullock Clark, Jr.
- Henry DeLamar Clayton
- Patrick Cleburne
- Thomas Lanier Clingman
- Howell Cobb
- Thomas Reade Rootes Cobb
- Francis Cockrell
- Alfred Holt Colquitt
- Raleigh E. Colston
- John Rogers Cooke
- Douglas H. Cooper
- Samuel Cooper (general)
- Montgomery D. Corse
- William Ruffin Cox
- James Craig (Missouri)
- George Bibb Crittenden
- George B. Crosby
- Alfred Cumming (general)
D
- Charles G. Dahlgren
- Junius Daniel
- Henry B. Davidson
- Jefferson Davis
- Joseph R. Davis
- Reuben Davis (representative)
- James Dearing
- Zachariah C. Deas
- James Deshler
- George Gibbs Dibrell
- Thomas P. Dockery
- George Pierce Doles
- Daniel Smith Donelson
- Thomas Drayton
- Dudley M. Du Bose
- Basil W. Duke
- Johnson K. Duncan
E
- Jubal Anderson Early
- John Echols
- Mathew Ector
- Arnold Elzey
- Clement A. Evans
- Nathan G. Evans
- Richard Ewell
F
- James F. Fagan
- Charles J. Faulkner
- Winfield S. Featherston
- Samuel W. Ferguson
- Charles W. Field
- Jesse Johnson Finley
- John B. Floyd
- John H. Forney
- William Henry Forney
- Nathan Bedford Forrest
- John W. Frazer
- Samuel Gibbs French
- Daniel M. Frost
- Birkett Davenport Fry
G
- Richard Montgomery Gano
- Franklin Gardner
- William M. Gardner
- Samuel Garland, Jr.
- Richard B. Garnett
- Robert S. Garnett
- Lucius Jeremiah Gartrell
- Martin Witherspoon Gary
- Richard C. Gatlin
- Samuel J. Gholson
- Randall Lee Gibson
- Jeremy F. Gilmer
- States Rights Gist
- A. H. Gladden
- James M. Goggin
- George Washington Gordon
- James B. Gordon
- John B. Gordon
- Josiah Gorgas
- Daniel C. Govan
- Archibald Gracie, Jr.
- Hiram B. Granbury
- John B. Grayson
- Martin E. Green
- Thomas Green (general)
- Elkanah Greer
- John Gregg (CSA)
- Maxcy Gregg
- Richard Griffith (general)
- Bryan Grimes
- Walter Gwynn
H
- Johnson Hagood (governor)
- Wade Hampton III
- Roger Hanson
- William Joseph Hardee
- Robert Hopkins Hatton
- James Morrison Hawes
- Alexander T. Hawthorn
- Harry T. Hays
- Louis Hébert (Confederate Army officer)
- Paul Octave Hébert
- Benjamin Hardin Helm
- Henry Heth
- Ambrose Powell Hill
- Daniel Harvey Hill
- Thomas C. Hindman
- Robert Hoke
- Theophilus H. Holmes
- James T. Holtzclaw
- John Bell Hood
- Benjamin Huger (1805-1877)
- Benjamin Grubb Humphreys
- Eppa Hunton
I
J
- Henry R. Jackson
- John K. Jackson
- Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson
- William Hicks Jackson
- Albert Gallatin Jenkins
- Micah Jenkins
- Adam Johnson (colonel)
- Bradley T. Johnson
- Bushrod R. Johnson
- Edward Johnson (general)
- Albert Sidney Johnston
- George D. Johnston
- Joseph E. Johnston
- Robert D. Johnston
- David R. Jones
- John M. Jones
- John R. Jones
- Sam Jones (Confederate Army officer)
- William E. Jones
- Thomas Jordan
K
- John H. Kelly
- James L. Kemper
- John Doby Kennedy
- Joseph Brevard Kershaw
- William W. Kirkland
L
- James H. Lane (general)
- Walter P. Lane
- Evander M. Law
- Alexander R. Lawton
- Danville Leadbetter
- Edwin Gray Lee
- Fitzhugh Lee
- George Washington Custis Lee
- Robert E. Lee
- Stephen D. Lee
- William Henry Fitzhugh Lee
- Joseph Horace Lewis
- William G. Lewis
- St. John Richardson Liddell
- Robert D. Lilley
- Thomas M. Logan
- Lunsford L. Lomax
- Armistead L. Long
- James Longstreet
- William W. Loring
- Mansfield Lovell
- Mark P. Lowrey
- Robert Lowry
- Hylan B. Lyon
M
- James H. McBride
- John McCausland
- William McComb
- John P. McCown
- Ben McCulloch
- Henry Eustace McCulloch
- Samuel McGowan (general)
- James M. McIntosh
- Lafayette McLaws
- Evander McNair
- Dandridge McRae
- William W. Mackall
- John B. Magruder
- William Mahone
- James Patrick Major
- George Maney
- Arthur M. Manigault
- Camille Armand Jules Marie, Prince de Polignac
- James Green Martin
- William T. Martin
- John S. Marmaduke
- Humphrey Marshall (general)
- Dabney Herndon Maury
- Samuel B. Maxey
- Hugh Weedon Mercer
- William Miller
- John C. Moore
- John Hunt Morgan
- John Tyler Morgan
- John S. Mosby
- Alfred Mouton
N
- Allison Nelson
- Francis Redding Tillou Nicholls
- Lucius B. Northrop
O
P
- Richard Lucian Page
- Joseph B. Palmer
- Mosby Parsons
- William H. F. Payne
- John Pegram
- John C. Pemberton
- William N. Pendleton
- William Dorsey Pender
- Abner Monroe Perrin
- Edward Aylesworth Perry
- J. Johnston Pettigrew
- Edmund Winston Pettus
- George Pickett
- Albert Pike
- Gideon J. Pillow
- Leonidas Polk
- Lucius E. Polk
- Carnot Posey
- Sterling Price
- William Preston (Kentucky)
- Roger Atkinson Pryor
Q
R
- Gabriel J. Rains
- James Edward Rains
- James S. Rains
- Stephen Dodson Ramseur
- George Wythe Randolph
- Matt Whitaker Ransom
- Robert Ransom, Jr.
- Alexander W. Reynolds
- Daniel H. Reynolds
- Roswell Ripley
- John Selden Roane
- Beverly Robertson
- Felix Huston Robertson
- Jerome Bonaparte Robertson
- Phillip Roddey
- Robert E. Rodes
- Lawrence Sullivan Ross
- Thomas L. Rosser
- Daniel Ruggles
- Albert Rust
S
- Alfred Moore Scales
- Thomas M. Scott
- William Read Scurry
- Claudius W. Sears
- Paul Jones Semmes
Raphael Semmes - Jacob H. Sharp
- Joseph Orville Shelby
- Charles M. Shelley
- Francis A. Shoup
- Henry Hopkins Sibley
- William Y. Slack
- James E. Slaughter
- Edmund Kirby Smith
- Gustavus Woodson Smith
- James A. Smith
- Martin L. Smith
- Preston Smith
- Thomas B. Smith
- William D. Smith
William "Extra Billy" Smith - Gilbert Moxley Sorrel
- Leroy A. Stafford
- William E. Starke
- William Steele
- George H. Steuart
- Carter L. Stevenson
- Alexander P. Stewart
- Marcellus A. Stovall
- Otho F. Strahl
- J.E.B. Stuart