Confederate general

Southern military leader

A Confederate general was a military officer holding general rank in the army of the Confederate States of America during the American Civil War (1861–1865).

The term now appears mainly in historical contexts: Robert E. Lee was the most famous Confederate general.

Confederate generals are sometimes invoked in debates over monuments and the memorialization of the defeated slaveholding South.

brigadierSenior military officer
Civil WarCountrymen fighting countrymen
states' rightsProvincial governmental autonomy
secessionFormal withdrawal from union
colonelSenior military officer

Robert E. Lee · monuments · war memorial · Reconstruction · Stonewall Jackson · Gettysburg · cavalry · infantry · Appomattox · Union · artillery · major · slavery · antebellum · lieutenant · corps · Vicksburg · rebel yell

Opposites

military allegiance in the american civil war

Confederate generalUnion general

North's military commander

Ulysses S. Grant · William Tecumseh Sherman · Union forces · Army of the Potomac

moral/historical judgment

Confederate generalFrederick Douglass

Harriet Tubman · freedom fighter · Abraham Lincoln

military hierarchy

Confederate generalJohnny Reb

Confederate enlisted man

Family

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