US Civil War Generals

Confederate General A. P. Hill had seen battle action in all of the major battles in the Eastern Theater. He was a gallant and successful commander. His last victory came in a small battle that was part of the Battle of Cold Harbor in 1864. He had been wounded several times and in 1865, against his better judgment, Robert E. Lee allowed Hill to resume his command in the defense of Petersburg. Hill was killed during a routine scouting mission less than a week before Lee surrendered at Appomattox.

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He was a strict and organized man. Although sometimes, he was overly cautious, and mistakes led him to get frustrated very quickly.

Confederate General Archibald Gracie Jr graduated from West Point in 1854. He was ranked 14th in his graduating class of cadets that numbered 46. Gracie saw a series of battle actions including the Battle of Yorktownand the Battle of Berryville. In the Western Theater he fought in the Tullahoma campaign and at the Battle of Chickamuaga. In 1864 he was transferred to Virginia and fought in the Siege of Petersburg. He was killed in that siege.

The Battle of Fort Sumter was important because the Confederates fired the first shots of the Civil War. Indeed they were "compelled" to do it by Lincoln's

clever initiative of confidentially noticing South Carolina's Governor Pickens that a naval convoy would have brought to the fort food and medical supplies, but no arms, ammunition and reinforcements. That led the Government of Montgomery to militarily react in order to prevent the Confederacy's Independence from being injured by the Union.

So, the surrendering of the fort was asked but repealed by the Union Commander Major Anderson and the hostilities broke out.

When Stuart was 14 years old and a student at Emory and Henry College, during a revival he made a profession of faith and joined the Methodist Church. Afterward he always maintained a religious character, and perhaps this was one reason for the warm regard between Stuart and Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson, who was a devout Presbyterian. In 1859 Stuart, having been on active duty with the Army for several years, was confirmed in the Episcopal Church. His mother and his wife were both Episcopalians, and so were most Army chaplains of that time. Confederate President Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee, and many other Confederate leaders were members of the Episcopal denomination, the descendant of the old "established" Church of England in colonial times.

The situation early in the US Civil War in western Virginia did not involve any direct contact between generals Lee and McClellan.This changed in 1862, during the Peninsula Campaign. Union General George B. McClellan learned that Union prisoners at Confederate POW hospitals were suffering in that the Confederates lacked the proper medicines needed to treat wounded Union troops. There was an exchange of letters between generals Lee and McClellan, where the latter general informed Lee that he would be happy to send to the Confederates any medical supplies required to treat prisoners. Lee replied by letter that he thanked McClellan for the kindness, however, Lee had all the medical supplies required to treat all wounded soldiers, both his and the Unions. The letters were polite and proper.

During the final week of February 1865, General James Longstreet became involved in negotiations that sought terms for a settlement in the Civil War. Major General EOC Ord, commander of the Army of the James sent a note through the lines that requested a meeting between himself and Longstreet about prisoners of war and a possible end of the armed hostilities between the North and the South. Ord's position was that since the politicians had failed to reach any means to end hostilities, the generals from each side should meet and agree to some kind of terms. By March 4, 1865, it became clear that negotiations to end the war were not possible.

The connection between Major Anderson and General PT Beauregard dated back to their days at West Point. At that time Beauregard was a student of Anderson and said that Anderson was the best instructor Beauregard had. As a coincidence, it was Beauregard leading the assault on Fort Sumter where Major Anderson was in charge.

Grant was a Civil War General and president.

The Battle of Chantilly was the battle that took the lives of two Union generals. Generals Issac Stephens and Philip Kearny were killed on September 1, 1862.

Five union.

US Grant

George McClellan

George Meade

Phillip Sheridan

WT Sherman

Five Confederate.

Robert E Lee

James Longstreet

Thomas J "Stonewall" Jackson

AP Hill

Jeb Stuart

The Little Napoleon.

For the 1864 Union campaign, only General Sherman's army was given the explicit goal of cutting Southern rail links. He was to wage a conventional march on Atlanta, and from there cut as many Rebel railway links as possible. Later in 1864, Sherman's plans would be altered.

General Forrest, like most Civil War generals had a string of horses. His favorite appears to be King Phillip. King Phillip is portrayed in many of the equine statues depicting General Nathan B. Forrest. See the links below for pictures of King Phillip and names for other other American Civil War horses.

No Confederate General surrendered the City of Atlanta to Sherman's Union forces. The Confederate forces under Hood evacuated the city in September 1864. General Sherman in turn evacuated the city after burning it in November of that year, returning it to Confederate control.

No, he felt little bad about Anraham Lincoln.

President Lincoln sent his newly appointed General in Chief Henry Wager Halleck to visit General McClellan at his headquarters on the Peninsula in July of 1862. McClellan refused to take the a second offensive against Richmond unless he was reinforced. Halleck immediately saw the Union's disadvantage in this situation. Unless Confederate General Lee perceived McClellan as a threat to Richmond, he would be free to use his interior lines to attack either McClellan or the new army in Virginia under the command of General Pope. Halleck's decision proved to be eventful. He ordered McClellan to leave the Peninsula and reinforce Pope in northern Virginia.

In the Eastern Theatre before General Grant came east in the Spring of 1864, a typical pattern existed in regard to fighting of battles. The two armies would clash for one or two days with the rare instance of longer engagements( Seven Days', Chancellorsville, Gettysburg) and then they would separate to recover from the fighting. Oftentimes weeks or even months would pass before they would battle again. This just allowed the war to drag on and on. General Grant employed a different approach. From early May 1864 beginning with the Battle of the Wilderness the Army of the Potomac and the Army of Northern Virginia were either fighting or marching to their next battle continuously for a solid month. Grant's purpose was to wear-out Lee's army. Each time they clashed, Grant would "move by the left flank" getting his army ever closer to Richmond. So his strategy was to press Lee's army to the point of exhaustion, which he ultimately did. On the Confederate side during this time there was a political element involved. If Lee could last through the 1864 Presidential election, it was hoped by the South that George McClellan would defeat Lincoln and then come to a negotiated peace with the South instead of continuing to fight. Lincoln won and so the war continued on until April 9, 1865 in the east.

Although President Lincoln had replaced Major General Joseph Hooker after the Battle of Chancellorsville, his departure from the Army of the Potomac was not the end of his military operations in the US Civil War. In 1864, Hooker found himself in General Sherman's Atlanta campaign. Hooker then was the XX Corps commander reporting to General Thomas in the Army of the Cumberland. He is noted in the Battle of New Hope Church. On May 25, 1864, he was ordered to test the Confederate defenses at New Hope Church. His attempted assaults there against Confederate entrenchments met with failure. At this juncture of Sherman's Atlanta campaign, the Union armies were temporarily stymied.

Jeb Stuart was a Major General of cavalry in the Army of Northern Virginia, commanded by Robert E Lee. One of the greatest cavalry commanders of the war.

For a major part of the US Civil War, General Sherman reported to General US Grant. They did not always agree on tactics. For example, Sherman thought it was foolish of Grant to order him to dig a canal to change the course of the Mississippi River in order to capture Vicksburg. Also, Sherman believed that Grant was over worried about news reporters in their camps.

Unlike the North, there were no awards given out in the Confederate Army. The only recognition was to have your name or unit mentioned in a commander's report.General John Bell Hood's awards were his many wounds he received in battle. Hood suffered major battle wounds, including battlefield action that caused the amputation of one leg and the loss of the use of one arm. At the end of the war, he had to be lifted onto his horse and "tied" to the saddle.