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Lewis Addison Armistead was a Confederate general during the American Civil War. He was mortally wounded during Pickett's Charge at the Battle of Gettysburg.

APUSH Definition — Lewis Armistead (1817–1863) was an officer in the Confederate Army during the Civil War. He was mortally wounded during Pickett's Charge at the Battle of Gettysburg.

Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard was an American military leader. As a general in the Confederate Army during the American Civil War, Beauregard served in the eastern and western theaters and was the victorious field commander at the First Battle of Bull Run near Manassas, Virginia on July 21, 1861.

Braxton Bragg was a Confederate general during the American Civil War who served as a principal commander in the Western theater and later as a military advisor to Confederate President Jefferson Davis.

U.S. Vice-president John C. Breckinridge was an American political leader who represented Kentucky in the U.S. House and Senate before serving as a general officer in the Confederate Army and as the fifth, and final, Confederate Secretary of War.

A prominent Confederate commander during the American Civil War, General Simon B. Buckner also served one term as governor of Kentucky after the conflict.

Charles Clark was a brigadier general in the Confederate Army and governor of Mississippi during the American Civil War.

Major General Patrick Ronayne Cleburne was one of the Confederacy's leading general officers in the Western Theater of the American Civil War. Toward the end of the war, he proposed a plan to enlist slaves in the Confederate Army.

Jubal Anderson Early was a prominent Confederate general during the American Civil War. His Army of the Valley battled Ohioan and Union General Philip Sheridan's force for control of Virginia's Shenandoah Valley in 1864 and early 1865.

Richard S. Ewell (1817–1872) was a prominent General in the Confederate Army during the American Civil War. He is most well-known for replacing Stonewall Jackson and his failure to attack Union forces on Cemetery Ridge on the first day of the Battle of Gettysburg.

A political appointee with little military experience prior to the American Civil War, Brigadier General John B. Floyd is most remembered for abandoning Fort Donelson in 1861 to avoid being captured by Federal soldiers.

Known as "the Wizard of the Saddle," Nathan Bedford Forrest was a prominent Confederate cavalry officer whose reputation was stained by accusations regarding his role in the "Fort Pillow Massacre" on April 12, 1864.

General Sir Arthur Lyon Fremantle was a British army officer and author of Three Months in the Southern States, a popular book based upon his travels through the Confederate States of America during the spring and summer of 1863.

In the American Civil War, Confederate Brigadier General Richard B. Garnett was mortally wounded during Pickett's Charge at the Battle of Gettysburg on July 3, 1863.

Confederate Brigadier General Robert S. Garnett was mortally wounded at the Battle of Corrick's Ford on July 13, 1861, making him the first general officer on either side to be killed during the American Civil War.

A prominent Confederate cavalry officer, Wade Hampton III also served as governor of South Carolina and as a United States Senator from the Palmetto State after the American Civil War.

William J. Hardee was a prominent Confederate corps commander in the Western Theater of the American Civil War, who briefly commanded the Army of Central Kentucky and the Army of Tennessee on two occasions.

Robert Hatton was a U.S. Congressman from Tennessee and a brigadier general in the Confederate Army during the American Civil War.

A.P. Hill was a prominent Confederate general during the American Civil War whose quarrelsome relationships with superior officers sometimes detracted from his battlefield accomplishments.

Daniel Harvey Hill was a prominent general officer who led Confederate forces in the eastern and western theaters of the American Civil War.