To be exact, the first living creature to be killed during the civil war was a horse, but there is no way to be sure what person died first because there were multiple gun shots every second! hope i helped.
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.
For the First Bull Run, the Union commander was Major General Irvin McDowell. For the Second Bull Run, Major General John Pope led the Union armies.
It was because of the South that the Civil War started, because they seceeded from the Union and started the first battle. So you can say the general was Robert E. Lee of the Confederacy.
The first major battle of the civil war was the First Battle of Bull Run with the Union led by Brigadier General Irvin McDowell and the Confederates led by Brigadier General P.G.T. Beauregard.
On May 25, 1862, Confederate General Stonewall Jackson was the victorious general at the First Battle of Winchester. This battle saw Jackson defeat the forces of Union General Nathaniel Banks.
General McDowen
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.
Where was the first battle civil war fought at
The first General in Chief of the Union Army was Lieutenant-General Winfield Scott.
Major General John F. Reynolds
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.
Winfeld Scott was General-in-Chief
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For the First Bull Run, the Union commander was Major General Irvin McDowell. For the Second Bull Run, Major General John Pope led the Union armies.
Ulysses S. Grant
First McClellan, then Burnside, then Hooker, and finally U.S. Grant
McClellan was a Union commander and he repelled general Lee's first Northern invasion.