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Confederate Generals.
[from the Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle, Jan. 7, 1896.]
As stated in a former article, there were 474
general officers of all grades in the regular military service of the
Confederacy.
It may be interesting to know just how many of these were severally contributed by the States comprehended in the
Southern Confederation:
Virginia—Three full generals, five
lieutenant-generals, seventeen
major-generals, and fifty-four
brigadier-generals-seventy-nine in all
North Carolina—Two
lieutenant-generals, seven
major-generals, and twenty-nine
brigadier-generals-thirty-eight in all.
South Carolina—Three
lieutenant-generals, four
major-generals, and twenty-seven
brigadier-generals-thirty-four in all.
Georgia—Three
lieutenant-generals, seven
major-generals, and forty-two
brigadier-generals-fifty-two in all.
Florida—One general in provisional army of
Confederate States, three
major-generals, and ten
brigadier-generals-fourteen in all.
Alabama—One
lieutenant-general, six
major-generals, and twenty-nine
brigadier-generals-thirty-six in all.
Mississippi—Five
major-generals and thirty brigadiergenerals-thirty-five in all.
Louisiana—Two full generals, two
lieutenant-generals, four
major-generals, and twenty-two
brigadier-generals-thirty in all.
Texas—One full general, one general with temporary rank, three
major-generals, and thirty-six
brigadier-generals-forty-one in all.
Indian Territory-One brigadier-general (Stand Watie). France—One
major-general (
Camille J. Polignac).
Arkansas—Four
major-generals and eighteen
brigadier-generals— twenty-two in all.
Missouri—Four
major-generals and twelve
brigadier-generals— sixteen in all.
Tennessee—Two
lieutenant-generals, eight
major-generals, and thirty-four
brigadier-generals-forty-four in all.
Kentucky—One
lieutenant-general, five
major-generals, and sixteen
brigadier-generals-twenty-two in all.
Maryland—Three
major-generals and six brigadiergenerals-nine in all.
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The spirit of ‘76 and the spirit of ‘61.
dear sir,—The following incident was related to me last week by
the Rev. William M. Dame, of
Baltimore, who entered the service of the
Confederacy at sixteen and served gallantly throughout the war in the
Richmond Howitzers.
With his permission I have prepared the paragraphs below for publication, my manuscript having since been examined and confirmed by him.
Mr. Dame was one of the sixteen youths mentioned in the first sentence.
Truly yours,
On the last
Sunday in August, 1860, at ‘The
Forks,’ in
Cumberland county, Virginia, was gathered a body of sixteen youths, with two exceptions, between the ages of fifteen and twenty.
They were grandsons of the venerable
Mrs. Lucy Page, daughter of
General Thomas Nelson, Jr.,
Governor of
Virginia in 1781, and widow of
Major Carter Page, of the
Continental Line, who served through the whole Revolutionary War. According to the custom of the family, the boys had been on a vacation visit to their grandmother, and were to disperse in a few days to their several homes.
The aged lady, full of the patriotic traditions of her historic line, was rallying them on the decay in their degenerate day of the spirit of chivalry and self-devotion which characterized their Revolutionary ancestors, and intimated her conviction unequivocally, if not in so many words, that they would never live again in them.
The following spring, at eighty-six,
Mrs. Page died, living not quite long enough to see how completely she had been in error.
The sixteen lads who left her in August, 1860, within eleven months of that leave-taking had,
every one, entered the military service of the
Confederate States. Two of them had already fallen in battle, and three had been wounded.
