The general officers of the Confederate States Army were the senior military leaders of the Confederate States of America during the American Civil War of 1861–1865. They were often former officers fr
Robert E. Lee, the best known CSA general. Lee is shown with the insignia of a Confederate colonel, which he chose to wear throughout the war.
P. G. T. Beauregard, the Confederacy's first brigadier general, later the fifth-ranking general
Maj. Gen. Benjamin Huger, CSA
Lt. Gen. James Longstreet, CSA
P. G. T. Beauregard
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Pierre Gustave Toutant-Beauregard was an American military officer known for being the Confederate general who started the American Civil War at the Battle of Fort Sumter on April 12, 1861. Today, he
General officers in the Confederate States Army
…ACSA to ensure that they outranked all militia officers, except for Edmund Kirby Smith, who was appointed general late in the war and into the PACS. Pierre G.T. Beauregard, had also initially been appointed a PACS general, was elevated to ACSA two months later with the same date of rank. These generals outranked all other…
Portrait by Mathew Brady, c. 1860–1865
Pierre G. T. Beauregard as a young man, painting by Richard Clague
The Battle of Chapultepec, September 13, 1847
U.S. Army Major P.G.T. Beauregard