Although the generals who commanded the Confederate armies hailed from across the South (and, in one or two cases, even from north of the Mason-Dixon Line), perhaps no other state supplied as many of the Confederacy's leading military lights as the Old Dominion. If you'd like to read more about Virginia's sons and their contributions to the War Between the States, we suggest the following sites:
LEWIS ARMISTEAD
- Lewis Addison Armistead (from Shotgun's Home of the American Civil War) - http://www.civilwarhome.com/armisteadbio.htm
- Brig. General Lewis A. Armistead, C.S.A. - https://www.historynet.com/lewis-armistead
JUBAL EARLY
- Jubal Early (from the Jubal Early Preservation Trust) - http://www.jubalearly.org
- Jubal Anderson (from Shotgun's Home of the American Civil War) - http://www.civilwarhome.com/earlybio.htm
RICHARD EWELL
- Richard Stoddert Ewell (from Shotgun's Home of the American Civil War) - http://www.civilwarhome.com/ewellbio.htm
HENRY HETH
- Henry Heth (from Shotgun's Home of the American Civil War) - http://www.civilwarhome.com/hethbio.htm
A.P. HILL
- And Then A.P. Hill Came Up - https://www.battlefields.org/learn/biographies/p-hill
- Ambrose Powell Hill (from Shotgun's Home of the American Civil War) - http://www.civilwarhome.com/aphillbio.htm
THOMAS JONATHAN "STONEWALL" JACKSON
- Stonewall Jackson Resources (by the Virginia Military Institute) - https://www.vmi.edu/archives/stonewall-jackson-resources/stonewall-jackson-faq
- Stonewall Jackson (by the Jackson Brigade, Inc.) - http://www.eg.bucknell.edu/~hyde/jackson/stonewall-bio.html
- Welcome to the Home of Thomas J. Jackson - https://www.vmi.edu/museums-and-archives/stonewall-jackson-house/
- Stonewall Jackson Shrine (by the National Park Service) - https://www.nps.gov/frsp/learn/photosmultimedia/stonewall-jackson-shrine.htm
JOSEPH E. JOHNSTON
- Joseph Eggleston Johnston (from Shotgun's Home of the American Civil War) - http://www.civilwarhome.com/joejohnston.htm
ROBERT E. LEE
- Robert E. Lee (by the Robert E. Lee Memorial Foundation) - http://www.stratfordhall.org
- Apotheosis of Robert E. Lee (by American Studies at the University of Virginia) - http://xroads.virginia.edu/~CAP/LEE/lee.html
WILLIAM MAHONE
- William Mahone (Petersburg National Battlefield - NPS) - https://www.nps.gov/pete/learn/historyculture/william-mahone.htm
- Major General William Mahone (Virginia Civil War Home Page) - https://petersburgpreservationtaskforce.com/2018/06/15/william-mahone
JOHN S. MOSBY
- John Singleton Mosby (from Shotgun's Home of the American Civil War) - http://www.civilwarhome.com/mosbybio.htm
- Biography of Col. John Singelton Mosby (Smithsonion) - http://americanhistory.si.edu/blog/2013/12/meet-john-s-mosby-the-gray-ghost-of-the-confederacy.html
GEORGE E. PICKETT
- The Pickett Society - http://www.pickettsociety.com/
- George Edward Pickett (from Shotgun's Home of the American Civil War) - http://www.civilwarhome.com/pickettbio.htm https://www.civilwarhome.com/mosbybio.html
J.E.B. STUART
- James Ewell Brown Stuart (from Shotgun's Home of the American Civil War) - http://www.civilwarhome.com/stuartbi.htm
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