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The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Volume 10: The Armies and the Leaders. (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller), Chapter 7: Confederate armies and generals (search)
man, and those in the territories of New Mexico and Arizona. Its main object was the conquest of California. Brigadier-General H. H. Sibley was placed in command. He had about thirty-seven hundred men. His troops won the battle of Valverde, occupieby Federal troops under Colonel E. R. S. Canby. Sibley was relieved of the command in December, 1862. Brigadier-General Henry Hopkins Sibley （U. S.M. A. 1838) was born at Natchitoches, Louisiana, May 23, 1816, and served in the Seminole and Mexican wars. He was the inventor of the famous Sibley tent. The outbreak of the Civil War found him on an Indian campaign in New Mexico, serving as a major of dragoons, but he accepted a commission as brigadier-general in the Confederate army and be1863. James P. Major led a Cavalry brigade in Louisiana. Edward Higgins, conspicuous at New Orleans in 1862. Henry H. Sibley, conspicuous leader in New Mexico. Albert G. Blanchard led a brigade in the Army of Northern Virginia. Zebulon
The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Volume 10: The Armies and the Leaders. (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller), Chapter 9: roster of general officers both Union and Confederate (search)
. Rice, Eliot W., Mar. 13, 1865. Runkle, Benj. P., Nov. 9, 1865. Roberts, Benj. S., Mar. 13, 1865. Robinson, J. C., June 27, 1864. Robinson, J. S., Mar. 13, 1865. Root, Adrian R., Mar. 13, 1865. Ruger, Thos. H., Nov. 30, 1864. Salomon, Fred'k, Mar. 13, 1865. Sanborn, John B., Feb. 10, 1865. Saxton, Rufus, Jan. 12, 1865. Scott, R. K., Dec. 5, 1865. Sewell, Wm. J., Mar. 13, 1865. Shaler, Alex., July 27, 1865. Shanks, J. P. C., Mar. 13, 1865. Sharpe, Geo. H., Mar. 13, 1865. Sibley, Henry H., Nov. 29, 1865. Sickle, H. G., Mar. 31, 1865. Slack, Jas. R., Mar. 13, 1865. Smith, G. C., Mar. 13, 1865. Smith, T. K., Mar. 13, 1865. Smyth, T. A., April 7, 1865. Spooner, B. U., Mar. 13, 1865. Sprague, J. W., Mar. 13, 1865. Stannard, Geo. J., Oct. 28, 1864. Stevenson, J. D., Mar. 13, 1865. Stoughton, W. L., Mar. 13, 1865. Sully, Alfred, Mar. 8, 1865. Thayer, John M., Mar. 13, 1865. Thomas, H. G., Mar. 13, 1865. Tibbetts, Wm. B., Mar. 13, 1865. Tidball, John C., April 2,
The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Volume 10: The Armies and the Leaders. (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller), General officers of the Confederate Army: a full roster compiled from the official records (search)
berts, Wm. P., Feb. 21, 1865. Robertson, B. H., June 9, 1862. Robertson, J. B., Nov. 1, 1862. Roddy, Philip D., Aug. 3, 1863. Roane, John S., Nov. 20, 1862. Ross, Lawrence S., Dec. 21, 1863. Ruggles, Daniel, Aug. 9, 1861. Rust, Albert, Mar. 4, 1862. Scales, Alfred M., June 3, 1863. Scott, T. M., May 10, 1864. Scurry, Wm. R., Sept. 12, 1862. Sears, Claudius W., Mar. 1, 1864. Semmes, Paul J., Mar. 11, 1862. Shelby, Joseph O., Dec. 15, 1863. Shoup, Francis A., Sept. 12, 1862. Sibley, H. H., June 17, 1861. Simms, James P., Dec. 4, 1864. Slack, William Y., April 12, 1862. Slaughter, J. E., Mar. 8, 1862. Smith, James A., Sept. 30, 1863. Smith, Preston, Oct. 27, 1862. Smith, Wm. D., Mar. 7, 1862. Stafford, Leroy A., Oct. 8, 1863. Starke, Peter B., Nov. 4, 1864. Starke, Wm. E., Aug. 6, 1862. Steele, William, Sept. 12, 1862. Sterling, A. M. W., Jan. 7, 1862. Steuart, Geo. H., Mar. 6, 1862. Stevens, C. H., Jan. 20, 1864. Stovall, M. A., April 23, 1863. Strahl, Otho
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Sibley, Henry Hopkins 1816-1886 (search)
Sibley, Henry Hopkins 1816-1886 Military officer; born in Nachitoches, La., May 25, 1816; graduated at West Point in 1838, entering the dragoons and serving in the Seminole War. He also served in the war against Mexico. In February, 1861, he was major of dragoons, and was serving against Indians in New Mexico; but in May he joined the Confederates, accepted the commission of brigadier-general in their army, and led a force from Texas for the conquest of New Mexico. At Fort Craig he was repulsed (June 5, 1862) and was driven over the mountains into Texas. In 1869-74 he was in the service of the Khedive of Egypt. He died in Fredericksburg, Va., Aug. 23, 1886.
John Dimitry , A. M., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 10.1, Louisiana (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 9: (search)
floating batteries. About the time that Banks was sailing from New York to New Orleans there had been considerable Confederate activity in the shifting about of commanders in Louisiana. Maj.-Gen. Franklin Gardner was ordered to make Port Hudson impregnable; General Ruggles was charged with the duty of pushing-forward its new works, these being by all accounts already formidable. Earl Van Dorn was still at Vicksburg although Pemberton, at Jackson, Miss., was soon to be within its walls. Sibley had already come down from Opelousas, with his newest headquarters for the time at New Iberia; Lieut.-Gen. E. Kirby Smith's command had been broadened to embrace the TransMis-sissippi department, and heroic Richard Taylor had flitted to Opelousas where, however, he was not to stay many days. Taylor had been a much-traveled man over the battlefields of the Confederacy. Banks had left New York with 20,000 men. In New Orleans he found about 10,000, with eight batteries of artillery. These
John Dimitry , A. M., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 10.1, Louisiana (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Biographical. (search)
ngaged in journalism and civil engineering, having charge of several surveying expeditions in Algeria. Brigadier-General Henry Hopkins Sibley Brigadier-General Henry Hopkins Sibley was born at Natchitoches, La., May 25, 1816. He was graduated Brigadier-General Henry Hopkins Sibley was born at Natchitoches, La., May 25, 1816. He was graduated at West Point in 1838, and assigned as second-lieutenant to the Second dragoons; took part in the Florida war, and was promoted to first-lieutenant in 1840. He served against the Indians in other parts of the country and on garrison duty; was on rec May the retreating force reached Fort Bliss, and after a few days of rest continued the retreat to San Antonio, Tex. General Sibley's services after this were in the Trans-Mississippi department. After the close of the war he went abroad, and from s last years were spent in ill health and straitened circumstances. He died at Fredericksburg, Va., August 23, 1886. General Sibley was the inventor of what was called the Sibley tent. It was in great favor for a time, but its use was after a while