Confederate General Charles S. Winder graduated from West point in 1850. He ranked 22nd among a graduating class of 44 cadets. General Winder was killed by an artillery barrage at the onset of the 1862 Battle of Cedar Mountain.
Sidney Johnston
General Albert Sidney Johnston
Confederate Albert Sidney Johnston graduated from West Point in 1826. He ranked 8th is his graduating class of 41. He most noted for his death at the Battle of Shiloh in 1862. Historians believe his early death hampered the war efforts of the South. He was well respected as a military officer.
Union General Charles Sidney Winder graduated from West point in 1850. He ranked 22nd in his graduating class of 44 cadets. He fought under Stonewall Jackson and was killed in battle at the Battle of Cedar Mountain in 1862, he was 32 years old.
Senator Stephen Douglas (Democrat) General T.J. "Stonewall" Jackson (Confederate) General Albert Sidney Johnston (Confederate) General McPherson (Union) J.E.B. Stuart (Confederate)
Sidney Johnston, probably the best General in the South. He was killed at that battle.
The Confederate leader at Shiloh was General Albert Sidney Johnston when they attacked General Grant's army. General Johnston was killed during the battle.
Death of the highly-respected Confederate General Sidney Johnston, and the beginning of the end of Confederate hopes of dominating Western Tennessee and the Mississippi.
It signalled the end of Confederate hopes of controlling Western Tennessee and the Mississippi. It also saw the death of the Confederate General Sidney Johnston, some say the best General in the South.
General Albert Sidney Johnston led the Confederates in the Battle of Shiloh in 1862.
Confederate General William Joseph Hardee graduated from West Point in 1838. He was ranked 26th in his class of graduating cadets that numbered 45. Hardee had served in the Mexican War and once the US Civil War began he saw most of his battlefield action in the Western Theater. As an aside, many historians are critical of Confederate General Albert Sidney Johnston for not placing the veteran Hardee in charge of Fort Donelson.
He was a Confederate General, regarded as the most brilliant officer in the South, but killed early in the war at Shiloh.