The Encyclopedia of Confederate Generals: The Definitive Guide to the 426 Leaders of the South's War Effort

by Samuel W. Mitcham

A renown military historian and frequent television commenter brings to life the generalship of the South during the Civil War in sparkling, information-filled vignettes. For both the Civil War completist and the general reader!

Anyone acquainted with the American Civil War will readily recognize the names of the Confederacy’s most prominent generals. Robert E. Lee. Stonewall Jackson. James Longstreet. These men have long been lionized as fearless commanders and genius tacticians. Yet few have heard of the hundreds of generals who led under and alongside them. Men whose battlefield resolve spurred the Confederacy through four years of the bloodiest combat Americans have ever faced.

In The Encyclopedia of Confederate Generals, veteran Civil War historian, Samuel W. Mitcham, documents the lives of every Confederate general from birth to death, highlighting their unique contributions to the battlefield and bringing their personal triumphs and tragedies to life.

Packed with photos and historical briefings, The Encyclopedia of Confederate Generals belongs on the shelf of every Civil War historian, and preserves in words the legacies once carved in stone.

815 pages, Kindle Edition

Published May 24, 2022

About the author

Mitcham was educated Northeast Louisiana University, North Carolina State, and received his doctorate at the University of Tennessee. He was a professor at Henderson State University, Georgia Southern University and the University of Louisiana at Monroe, and was a visiting professor at West Point. He lives in Monroe, Louisiana.

Reviews

[Nolan · Rating 5 out of 5]

Saw this book at Barnes and nobles and jumped on it. Growing up in NY during school it indirectly taught that the south is full of slave loving union hating leaders. This book really puts it in perspective that most of the generals in this book disagreed with slavery and secession. I think this book should be in the school system.

Also love how this book is recent and makes notes of certain updates from 2020 and 2021 such as some interments and liberals knocking statues down.

Back to my previous paragraph it shows a lot of these southern men were just fighting for there state which they loved.

Each general has a great biography that tells pertain info of there birth , war career and after. Took a few days to read but also was reading other books in between. This will be a great reference book.

It is also great because it sheds light on the “cloudy” perception on many known generals, and little known or even obscure generals.

One thing I’d like to add is N. B Forrest is often portrayed as a fanatic racist in mainstream history but this book shows a different side , I’m now very eager to read “that devil Forrest “ that I I haven’t yet started yet.