Lt. Gen. Stephen Dill Lee

"To you, Sons of Confederate Veterans, we submit the vindication of the cause for which we fought; to your strength will be given the defense of the Confederate soldier's good name, the guardianship of his history, the emulation of his virtues, the perpetuation of those principles he loved and which made him glorious and which you also cherish. Remember it is your duty to see that the true history of the South is presented to future generations."

Confederate Roll of Honor
Colonel Leopold Ludger Armant	18th Louisiana Consolidated Regiment April 8, 1864 ~ Mansfield, Louisiana
Sergeant Adam Washington Ballenger	13th South Carolina Infantry July 28, 1864 ~ Deep Bottom, Virginia
Private Wilson J. Barbee	1st Texas Infantry July 2, 1863 ~ Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
Seaman Arnold Becker	CSS H. L. Hunley February 17, 1864 ~ Attack on USS Housatonic outside Charleston Harbor, South Carolina
Private Christopher Columbus Bland	2nd North Carolina Artillery December 24, 1864 ~ Fort Fisher, North Carolina
Father Emmeran Bliemel	Chaplain, 10th Tennessee Infantry August 31, 1864 - Jonesboro, Georgia
Captain Isaac Newton Brown	Commander, CSS Arkansas July 15, 1862 ~ Yazoo and Mississippi Rivers
Colonel Henry King Burgwyn, Jr.	26th North Carolina Infantry July 1, 1863 ~ Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
Corporal C. F. Carlsen	CSS H. L. Hunley February 17, 1864 ~ Attack on USS Housatonic outside Charleston Harbor, South Carolina
Major General Patrick Ronayne Cleburne	Cleburne's Division November 30, 1864 ~ Franklin, Tennessee
Seaman F. Collins	CSS H. L. Hunley February 17, 1864 - Attack on USS Housatonic outside Charleston Harbor, South Carolina
Adjutant Claudius Virginius Hughes Davis	22nd Mississippi Infantry July 20, 1864 ~ Peach Tree Creek, Georgia
Private Samuel Davis	Coleman's Scouts November 27, 1863 ~ Pulaski, Tennessee
1st Lieutenant George E. Dixon	CSS H. L. Hunley February 17, 1864 ~ Attack on USS Housatonic outside Charleston Harbor, South Carolina
David Owen Dodd	Military Telegrapher January 8, 1864 - Little Rock, Arkansas
1st Lieutenant Richard William Dowling	1st Texas Heavy Artillery September 8, 1863 ~ Sabine Pass, Texas
Private Lamar Fontaine	Discharged soldier May 24-May 28, 1863 ~ Vicksburg, Mississippi
Colonel Nathan Bedford Forrest	Forrest's Cavalry April 8, 1862 ~ Shiloh, Tennessee
Sergeant Robert Henry Gregg Gaines	23rd Alabama Infantry May 16, 1863 ~ Bakers Creek, Mississippi
Brigadier General Richard Brooke Garnett	Garnett's Brigade July 3, 1863 ~ Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
Lieutenant Frank Patton Gracey	Cobb's 1st Kentucky Artillery ~ On October 29, 1864 swam the Tennessee River at night; captured Union supply steamer Mazeppa and two barges in tow with large quantities of winter supplies
Brigadier General Thomas Green	Green's Texas Cavalry Corps April 12, 1864 ~ Blair's Landing, Louisiana
Private William Guehrs	Creuzbaur's Battery, 5th Texas Artillery May 6, 1864 ~ Calcasieu Pass, Louisiana
Brigadier General Wade Hampton	Hampton's Brigade July 3, 1863 ~ Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
Private Asbury W. Hancock	19th Mississippi Infantry May 12, 1864 ~ Spotsylvania Court House, Virginia
Lieutenant Colonel Tazewell Lee Hargrove	44th North Carolina Regiment June 26, 1863 ~ South Anna Bridge, Virginia
Juliet Opie Hopkins	Nurse June 1, 1862 ~ Seven Pines, Virginia
Private William A. Hughes	1st Tennessee Infantry June 27, 1864 ~ Kennesaw Mountain, Georgia
Private Dewitt Smith Jobe	Coleman's Scouts August 30, 1864 ~ Between Triune and Nolensville, Tennessee
2nd Lieutenant Charles H. Jones	7th South Carolina Cavalry April 8, 1865 ~ Skirmish at Manning, South Carolina
Private James Keelan	Thomas' Legion November 8, 1861 ~ Strawberry Plains, Tennessee
Sergeant Richard Rowland Kirkland	2nd South Carolina Infantry December 14, 1862 ~ Fredericksburg, Maryland
Captain James Lile Lemon	18th Georgia Infantry November 29, 1863 ~ Fort Sanders, Tennessee
David Herbert Llewellyn, M.D.	Surgeon, CSS Alabama June 19, 1864 ~ Off coast of Cherbourg, France, engagement with USS Kearsage
Captain Joseph Banks Lyle	5th South Carolina Infantry October 27, 1864 ~ Battle of Williamsburg Road, Virginia
Private Tapley P. Mays	7th Virginia Infantry May 5, 1862 ~ Williamsburg, Virginia
1st Lieutenant William Alexander McQueen	Garden's Battery, Palmetto Light Artillery July 3, 1863 ~ Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
Captain John Singleton Mosby	Mosby's Regulars; 43rd Virginia Cavalry March 8-9, 1863 - Fairfax Courthouse, Virginia
Private William Thomas Overby	43rd Virginia Cavalry September 23, 1864 ~ Front Royal, Virginia
Private Benjamin Welch Owens	1st Maryland Artillery June 15, 1863 ~ Stephenson's Depot, Virginia
1st Lieutenant Raphael Painpare	Beauregard Artillery April 9, 1865 ~ Battle of Dingle's Mill, South Carolina
Major John Pelham	Stuart's Horse Artillery December 13, 1862 ~ Fredericksburg, Virginia
Brigadier General William Dorsey Pender	Pender's Brigade May 3, 1863 ~ Chancellorsville, Virginia
Private James Pleasants	Company F, 4th Virginia Cavalry March 1, 1864 ~ The Dahlgren-Kilpatrick Raid, Goochland County, Virginia
Major General Camille Armand Jules Marie, Prince de Polignac	Polignac's Brigade April 8, 1864 ~ Mansfield, Louisiana
Lieutenant Charles William Read	CSA Navy June 6-June 27, 1863 ~ Cruise of the Clarence, Tacony, and Archer
1st Lieutenant William Field Rector	39th Arkansas Infantry July 4, 1863 ~ Helena, Arkansas
Seaman Ridgeway	CSS H. L. Hunley February 17, 1864 ~ Attack on USS Housatonic outside Charleston Harbor, South Carolina
Captain Samuel Jones Ridley	1st Mississippi Artillery May 16, 1863 ~ Bakers Creek, Mississippi
Seaman C. Simpkins	CSS H. L. Hunley February 17, 1864 ~ Attack on USS Housatonic outside Charleston Harbor, South Carolina
Seaman James A. Wicks	CSS H. L. Hunley February 17, 1864 ~ Attack on USS Housatonic outside Charleston Harbor, South Carolina
Captain Henry Wirz	Ex-Commandant, Camp Sumter, Georgia November 10, 1865 ~ Washington, D.C.
1st Lieutenant Bennett Henderson Young	5th Confederate State Retributors October 19, 1864 ~ St. Albans, Vermont

Recommended Reading: Valor in Gray: The Recipients of the Confederate Medal of Honor. Description: Gregg Clemmer writes in detail about the events that occurred that caused these men to be remembered. He has spent countless hours researching the character of each recipient and their heroic-selfless actions. Whether a descendant of the North or the South, this book will make you feel the emotion that drove these men to risk their lives for their values and beliefs. Each chapter is devoted to a separate Confederate Medal of Honor recipient. Valor in Gray is destined to be one of the best books on Civil War history. (Available in hardcover and paperback.)

Recommended Reading: Courage in Blue and Gray: Tales of Valor from the Civil War. Description: This is a rich sampling of Civil War stories - tales of courage and valor - culled from letters, diaries, newspapers, periodicals, battle reports and pamphlets, which feature some well known and not so well known people who faced danger and uncertainty and showed great courage throughout this difficult time in our nation's history. Continued below.

Collected in this volume is the story of how Walt Whitman was drawn to the Civil War; the tale of George Armstrong Custer's life-long friendship with a far less famous Confederate general; the drama of America's greatest amphibious assault prior to World War II; the contrast between the post-war fate of Confederate Generals James Longstreet and Turner Ashby; the excitement of the Battle of Mobile Bay; the hardships faced by the new Confederate Post Office; the chronicle of a neurosurgeon's pioneering techniques that were later used in World War I; the adventure of a Prussian nobleman who fought with JEB Stuart; and the mystery of how a copy of the Bill of Rights stolen during Sherman's march to the sea was finally recovered by the FBI nearly one hundred and forty years after the Civil War. Here, in vivid detail and with a dramatic flair, are the voices of soldiers and sailors, friends and enemies, doctors, correspondents, generals and politicians, all told in a way that only history from the heart can tell. These tales convey the vitality, the humor, the courage and the valor of a people and their volatile era. These colorful stories offer a glimpse into the personalities, attitudes and events that at once enhance our understanding of the Civil War, a conflict that claimed more than 620,000 lives. About the Author: Ken Kryvoruka is a Washington, D.C. lawyer and a professor at the George Washington University Law School. Although born in New Jersey and a graduate of Rutgers College, he has spent most of his life in Northern Virginia, the major theater of the Civil War. Courage in Blue and Gray is his first collection of essays about the War. He lives in Falls Church, Virginia with his wife, two sons and their cairn terrier, Rudy.

 

Recommended Reading: Let Us Die Like Brave Men: Behind The Dying Words Of Confederate Warriors (Hardcover). Description: This book offers over 50 dramatic, bittersweet accounts of the last moments and words of Southern soldiers (some famous, others virtually unknown) from the rank of general to private. Photographs of the soldiers, their graves, or the places where they fell illustrate the text. Each story was chosen to highlight a different aspect of the war, and every state of the Confederacy is represented by soldiers whose poignant stories are told here. Continued below…

About the Author: Daniel W. Barefoot is the author of 9 previous books, including General Robert F. Hoke: Lee's Modest Warrior. He is a former N.C. state representative who lives in Lincolnton, North Carolina.

 

Recommended Reading: The Civil War: Strange & Fascinating Facts (Hardcover). Description: After a lifetime of reading, Burke Davis put together a book of amazing and interesting pieces of information that don't usually show up in the historical accounts of the Civil War. ...Wonderfully entertaining look at some intriguing oddities, unusual incidents, and colorful personalities connected with the Civil War. It includes 25 names the war was known by, personal quirks of Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson. Take a look at some interesting examples below…

Here are a few examples of his research:

The Civil War was known by more than twenty-five names. The most unusual include: The Brothers War; The War to Suppress Yankee Arrogance; The War for the Union; and The War of the Rebellion.

Abraham Lincoln had smallpox when he gave the Gettysburg Address and several members of his wife's family were soldiers in the Confederate Army. Also, President Lincoln admitted that one of his favorite tunes was "Dixie."

General Nathan Bedford Forrest, CSA, had twenty-nine horses shot from beneath him during the war. Belle Boyd started her career as a spy for the South when, at the age of seventeen, she killed a Federal soldier. After the war, about 3,000 former Confederate officers left the South and moved to foreign countries.

 

Recommended Reading: Stealing the General: The Great Locomotive Chase and the First Medal of Honor. Description: "The Great Locomotive Chase has been the stuff of legend and the darling of Hollywood. Now we have a solid history of the Andrews Raid. Russell S. Bonds’ stirring account makes clear why the raid failed and what happened to the raiders."—James M. McPherson, author of Battle Cry of Freedom, winner of the Pulitzer Prize. Continued below.

On April 12, 1862 -- one year to the day after Confederate guns opened on Fort Sumter -- a tall, mysterious smuggler and self-appointed Union spy named James J. Andrews and nineteen infantry volunteers infiltrated north Georgia and stole a steam engine referred to as  the General. Racing northward at speeds approaching sixty miles an hour, cutting telegraph lines and destroying track along the way, Andrews planned to open East Tennessee to the Union army, cutting off men and materiel from the Confederate forces in Virginia. If they succeeded, Andrews and his raiders could change the course of the war. But the General’s young conductor, William A. Fuller, chased the stolen train first on foot, then by handcar, and finally aboard another engine, the Texas. He pursued the General until, running out of wood and water, Andrews and his men abandoned the doomed locomotive, ending the adventure that would soon be famous as The Great Locomotive Chase, but not the ordeal of the soldiers involved. In the days that followed, the "engine thieves" were hunted down and captured. Eight were tried and executed as spies, including Andrews. Eight others made a daring escape to freedom, including two assisted by a network of slaves and Union sympathizers. For their actions, before a personal audience with President Abraham Lincoln, six of the raiders became the first men in American history to be awarded the Medal of Honor -- the nation's highest decoration for gallantry. Americans north and south, both at the time and ever since, have been astounded and fascinated by this daring raid. Until now, there has not been a complete history of the entire episode and the fates of all those involved. Based on eyewitness accounts, as well as correspondence, diaries, military records, newspaper reports, deposition testimony and other primary sources, Stealing the General: The Great Locomotive Chase and the First Medal of Honor by Russell S. Bonds is a blend of meticulous research and compelling narrative that is destined to become the definitive history of "the boldest adventure of the war."