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Name. Date of Appointment. Remarks.
Brigadier-Generals-Con. Jones, Jno. M. May 15, 1863. Killed at Wilderness, Va., May 5, 1864.
Jones, Jno. R. . June 23, 1862.
Jones, Samuel .
. July 21, 1861.
See list of Major-Generals.
Jones, W. E.
Sept. 19, 1862
Killed
1864.
Johnston, Joe E. May 14, 1861.
See list of Generals.
Jordan, Thos.
April 14, 1862.
Kemper, J. L.
June 3, 1862.
See list of Major-Generals.
Lagnel, J. A. de. April 15, 1862.
Declined appointment.
Lee, E. G. . Sept. 20, 1864.
Lee, Fitzhugh .July 14, 1862 . See list of Major-Generals.
Lee, G. W. C.
June 25, 1863
. See list of Major-Generals.
Lee, W. H. F.
Sept. 15, 1862
See list of Major-Generals.
Lee, Robt. E.
May 14, 1861.
See list of Generals.
Lilley, R. D.
May 31, 1864.
July 23, 1863.
See list of Major-Generals.
Magruder, J. B
. June 17, 1861 .
. See list of Major-Generals.
Mahone, W.
. Nov. 16, 1861.
. See list of Major-Generals.
Maury, D. H.
March 12, 1862.
. See list of Major-Generals.
McCausland, J
May 18, 1864.
Moore, P. T.
Sept. 20, 1864.
Page, R. L.
March 1, 1864.
Payne, W. H.
Nov. 1, 1864.
Paxton, E. F
Nov. 1, 1862
Killed at Chancellorsville, Va., May 3, 1863.
Pegram, Jno. . Nov. 7, 1862.
. See list of Major-Generals.
Pemberton, J. C.
June 17, 1861.
See list of Major-Generals.
Pendleton, W. N.
March 26, 1862.
Pickett, G. E.
Jan. 14, 1862.
See list of Major-Generals.
Pryor, R. A.
April 16, 1862.
Randolph, G. W
Feb. 13, 1862
Sec. of War, March 17 to Dec. 18, 1862.
Reynolds, A. W Sept. 14, 1863.
Robertson, B. H
June 9, 1863.
Rosser, T. L. .
Sept. 28, 1863.
See list of Major-Generals.
Ruggles, Dan'l Aug. 9, 1861.
Slaughter, J. E. March 8, 1862.
Smith, Wm. Jan. 31, 1863.
See list of Major-Generals.
Stevens, W. H Aug. 28, 1864.
Stevenson, C. L.
Feb. 27, 1862.
. See list of Major-Generals.
Stuart, J. E. B.
.Sept. 24, 1861.
. See list of Major-Generals.
Taliafierro, W. B.
March 4, 1862 .See list of Major-Generals.
Terrell, J. B
May 7, 1864. Killed at Wilderness, Va., May 7, 1864.
Terry, Wm. . ". May 19, 1864.
Walker, H. H. July 1, 1863.
Walker, J. A.
.Jan. 15, 1863.
Walker, R. L.
Feb. 18, 1865.
Weisisger, D. A.
July 30, 1864.
Wharton, G. C.
July 8, 1863.
Wickman, W. C.
Sept. 1, 1863.
Wise, Henry A. June 5, 1861.
FRANCE.
Polignac, C. J. Jan. 10, 1863. ..... Sce list of Major-Generals.
INDIAN TERRITORY.
Watie, Stand
May 10, 1864.
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Lomax, L. L. Long, A. L.
.Sept. 21, 1863.
Also Commander in C. S. Navy.
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General Lee's Farewell Address to His Army.
Headquarters Army Northern Virginia, April 10, 1865.
"After four years of arduous service, marked by unsurpassed cour- age and fortitude, the Army of Northern Virginia has been compelled to yield to overwhelming numbers and resources. I need not tell the survivors of so many hard-fought battles who have remained steadfast to the last, that I have consented to this result from no distrust of them; but feeling that valor and devotion could accomplish nothing that could compensate for the loss that would have attended the continuation of the contest, I have determined to avoid the useless sacrifice of those whose past services have endeared them to their countrymen.
"By the terms of the agreement, officers and men can return to their homes, and remain there until exchanged. You will take with you the satisfaction that proceeds from the consciousness of duty faithfully per- formed; and I earnestly pray that a merciful God will extend to you his blessing and protection.
"With an increasing admiration of your constancy and devotion to your country, and a grateful remembrance of your kind and generous consideration of myself, I bid you an affectionate farewell. "R. E. LEE, General."
"When our idolized leader sheathed his sword at Appomattox the world grew dark to us. We felt as if the sun had set in blood to rise no more. It was as if the foundations of the earth were sinking be- neath our feet. But that same stainless hero, whom we had followed with unquestioning devotion, taught us not to despair. He told us it was the part of brave men to accept defeat without repining. 'Human virtue,' he said, 'should be equal to human calamity.' He pointed up- ward to the star of duty, and bade us follow it as bravely in peace as we had followed it in war. Henceforth it should be our consecrated task, by the help of God, to rebuild the fallen walls of our prosperity.
"And so we accepted the result of the war in good faith. We abide the arbitrament of the sword. We subscribe as sincerely as the men who fought against us to the sentiment: 'One Flag, One Country, One Constitution, One Destiny.' This is now for us an indissoluble Union of indestructible States. We are loyal to the starry banner. We re- member that it was baptized with Southern blood when our forefathers first unfurled it to the breeze. We remember that it was a Southern poet, Francis Key, who immortalized it in the 'Star Spangled Banner.' We remember that it was the genius of a Southern soldier and states- man, George Washington, that finally established it in triumph. South- ern blood has again flowed in its defense in the Spanish war, and should occasion require; we pledge our lives and our sacred honor to defend it against foreign aggression as bravely as will the descendants of the Puritans. And yet, today, while that banner of the Union floats over us, we bring the offering of our love and loyalty to the memory of the flag of the Southern Confederacy! Strange as it may seem to one who does not understand our people; inconsistent and incomprehensible as it may appear, we salute yonder flag-the banner of the Stars and Stripes-as the symbol of our reunited country at the same moment that we come together to do homage to the memory of the Stars and Bars. There is in our hearts a double loyalty today; a loyalty to the present, and a loyalty to the dear, dead past. We still love our old bat- tle flag with the Southern cross upon its fiery folds! We have wrapped it round our hearts! We have enshrined it in the sacred ark of our love; and we will honor it and cherish it evermore -- not now as a political symbol, but as the consecrated emblem of an heroic epoch; as the sacred
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memento of a day that is dead; as the embodiment of memories that will be tender and holy as long as life shall last. * * * * *
"The ablest military critic in the British Army in this generation has placed Lee and Stonewall Jackson in the same group with Wash- ington and Wellington and Marlborough, the five greatest generals, in his opinion, of the English-speaking race; and the President of the United States, Mr. Roosevelt, has said in his 'Life of Thomas H. Ben- ton:' 'The world has never seen better soldiers than those who fol- lowed Lee; and their leader will undoubtedly rank, as without excep- tion, the very greatest of all the great captains that the English-speak- ing peoples have brought forth; and this, although the last and chief of his antagonists, may himself claim to stand as the full equal of Wel- lington and Marlborough.' As to the rank and file, General Hooker of the Union Army has said that 'for steadiness and efficiency' Lee's army was unsurpassed in ancient or modern times-'We have not been able to rival it.' And General Charles A. Whittier of Massachusetts has said, 'The army of Northern Virginia will deservedly rank as the best army which has existed on this continent, suffering privations unknown to its opponent. The North sent no such army to the field.'"-From Oration of Rev. R. H. McKim, Rector of the Church of the Epiphany, Washington, D. C. Delivered at the Nashville Reunion, 1904.
Political Relations Between the State of Missouri and the Confederate States of America.
After several of the Southern States had seceded from the Federal Union and organized an independent government, the Legislatures of New York and Ohio adopted stringent coercive resolutions.
The Missouri Legislature being in session adopted the following resolution, opposing this doctrine:
Joint Resolution of the Missouri Legislature on the Subject of Coercing.
Whereas, we have learned, with profound regret, that the states of New York and Ohio have recently tendered men and money to the President of the United States for the avowed purpose of coercing cer- tain sovereign states of the South, which have seceded, or may secede, from the Federal Union, into obedience to the Federal Government; therefore,
Resolved by the House of Representatives, the Senate concurring therein, That we regard with the utmost abhorrence the doctrine of coercion as indicated by the action of the States aforesaid, believing that the same would result in civil war, and forever destroy any hope of reconstructing the Federal Union. So believing, we deem it our duty to declare that if there is any invasion of the slave States for the purpose of carrying such doctrine into effect, it is the opinion of this General Assembly that the people of Missouri will instantly rally on the side of their Southern brethren, to resist the invaders at all hazards and to the last extremity.
Resolved, That the governor of the State be requested to transmit to the governors of New York and Ohio the above resolutions.
Approved February 21, 1861.
In a proclamation dated June 12, 1861, calling the militia into the active service of the State, for the purpose of repelling invasion, and for other purposes, Governor Jackson said of the political relations of the State:
In issuing this proclamation I hold it to be my solemn duty to re- mind you that Missouri is still one of the United States; that the exe-
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cutive department of the State government does not arrogate to itself the power to disturb that relation; that that power has been wisely vested in a convention, which will, at the proper time, express your sovereign will, and that meanwhile it is your duty to obey all the con- stitutional requirements of the Federal Government; but it is equally my duty to advise you that your first allegiance is due to your own State, and that you are under no obligation whatever to obey the un- constitutional edicts of the military despotism which has enthroned it- self at Washington, nor to submit to the infamous and degrading sway of its wicked minions in this State.
CLAIBORNE F. JACKSON, Governor of Missouri, 1861.
By an act of the Confederate Congress, approved August 20, 1861, provision was made for aiding the State of Missouri in repelling in- vasion by the United States, and to authorize the admission of the State as a member of the Confederate States of America. The act also pro- vided for an alliance, offensive and defensive, between the Confederate States and the State of Missouri. as a preliminary to the admission of the State as a member of the Confederacy. That portion of the act re- lating to admission and the proposed alliance is here quoted:
AN ACT to aid the State of Missouri in repelling invasion by the United States, and to authorize the admission of said State as a member of the Confederate States of America, and for other purposes.
Sec. 2. That the State of Missouri shall be admitted a member of the Confederate States of America, upon an equal footing with the other States, under the constitution for the provisional government of the same, upon the condition that the said constitution for the pro- visional government of the Confederate States shall be adopted and ratified by the properly and legally constituted authorities of said State; and the governor of said State shall transmit to the President of the Confederate States an authentic copy of the proceedings touching said adoption and ratification by said State of said provisional constitution;
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upon the receipt whereof the President, by proclamation, shall announce the fact; wherenpon and without any further proceedings upon the part of Congress, the admission of said State of Missouri into this Confed- eracy under said constitution for the provisional government of the Confederate States shall be considered as complete; and the laws of this Confederacy shall be thereby extended over said State of Missouri as fully and completely as over other States now composing the same.
Sec. 3. That the Congress of the Confederate States recognize the government of which Claiborne F. Jackson is the chief magistrate, to be the legally elected and regularly constituted government of the peo- ple and State of Missouri, and that the President of the Confederate States be, and he is hereby empowered, at his discretion, at any time prior to the admission of said State as a member of this Confederacy, to perfect and proclaim an alliance, offensive and defensive, with the said government, limited to the period of the existing war between this Confederacy and the United States, the said treaty or alliance to be in force from the date thereof and until the same shall be disaffirmed or rejected by this Congress.
Approved August 20, 1861.
Following this enactment, on September 26, 1861, Governor Jack- son appointed Edward Carrington Cabell and Thomas L. Snead com- missioners on the part of the State of Missouri to enter into a treaty of alliance, offensive and defensive, with the Government of the Con- federate States. Following is a copy of the appointment: Executive Department, State of Missouri:
Know all men by these presents, that I, Claiborne F. Jackson. governor of the State of Missouri, do hereby nominate, constitute and appoint Edward Carrington Cabell and Thomas L. Snead, commission- ers on the part of the State of Missouri to negotiate, enter into, perfect, and make a treaty of alliance, offensive and defensive, with the Govern- ment of the Confederate States of America, limited to the existing war between said Confederacy and the United States, which said treaty of alliance shall be in force from the date thereof and until the same shall be disaffirmed or annulled by the parties thereto, hereby giving to the said commissioners, or to either of them, if the other shall from any cause be unable to act, full and complete powers in the premises, and hereby ratifying and confirming all that they may do in the execution of the above granted powers.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my name and caused to be affixed the great seal of the State of Missouri.
Done this 26th day of September, A. D. 1861, and of the independ- ence of the State of Missouri the forty-first, at Lexington, in said State. C. F. JACKSON.
By the Governor:
B. F. MASSEY, Secretary of State. .
Pursuant to the provisions of the act of the Confederate Congress, quoted above, a convention was entered into between the Confederate States and the State of Missouri, October 31, 1861, as follows:
Convention between the Confederate States of America and the State of Missouri.
Whereas, it is the common desire of the Confederate States of America and the State of Missouri that the said State should become a member of the Confederacy; and
Whereas, the accomplishment of their purpose is now prevented by an armed invasion of the territory of said State by the United States; and
Whereas, the interests of both demand that they should make com- mon cause in the war waged by the United States against the liberties of both.
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Now, therefore, for these most desirable objeets, the president of the Confederate States of America has conferred full powers on R. M. T. Hunter, their secretary of state, and the executive power of the State of Missouri on Edward Carrington Cabell and Thomas L. Snead, who, after having exchanged their said full powers in due and proper form, have agreed to the following articles:
Article I. The State of Missouri shall be admitted into said Con- federacy on an equal footing with the other States composing the same on the fulfillment of the conditions set forth in the second section of the act of Congress of the Confederate States, entitled "An act to aid the State of Missouri in repelling invasion by the United States, and to authorize the admission of said State as a member of the Confeder- ate States of America, and for other purposes," approved August 20, 1861.
Art. II. Until said State of Missouri shall become a member of said Confederacy, the whole military force, material of war, and military operations, offensive and defensive, of said State shall be under the chief control and direction of the president of the Confederate States, upon the same basis, principles and footing as if said State were now and during the interval a member of said Confederacy, the said force, together with that of the Confederate States, to be employed for their common defense.
Art. III. The State of Missouri will, whenever she becomes a men- ber of said Confederacy, turn over to said Confederate States all the public property, naval stores and munitions of war of which she may then be in possession acquired from the United States (excepting the public lands) on the same terms and in the same manner as the other States of said Confederacy have done in like cases.
Art. IV. All expenditures for the prosecution of the existing war incurred by the State of Missouri from and after the date of the sign- ing of this convention shall be met and provided for by the Confederate States.
Art. V. The alliance hereby made between the said Confederate States and the State of Missouri shall be offensive and defensive, and shall be and remain in force during the continuance of the existing war with the United States, or until superseded by the admission of said State into the Confederacy, and shall take effect from the date thereof, according to the provisions of the third section of the aforesaid act, approved August 20, 1861.
In faith whereof we, the commissioners of the Confederate States of America and of the State of Missouri, have signed and sealed these presents.
Done in duplicate at the city of Richmond on the 31st day of Octo- ber, A. D. 1861.
R. M. T. HUNTER, E. C. CABELL, THOMAS L. SNEAD.
The General Assembly of the State of Missouri passed an act de- claring a dissolution of the political ties previously existing between the State of Missouri and the United States of America. Following is a copy of the act:
An act declaring the political ties heretofore existing between the State of Missouri and the United States of America dissolved.
Whereas, the Government of the United States, in the possession and under the control of a sectional party, has wantonly violated the compact originally made between said Government and the State of Missouri by invading by hostile armies the soil of the State, attacking and making prisoners the militia whilst legally assembled under the State laws, forcibly occupying the State capitol and attempting through
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the instrumentality of domestic traitors to usurp the government, seizing and destroying private property, and murdering with fiendish malignity peaceable citizens, men, women and children, together with other acts of atrocity, indicating a deep-settled hostility toward the people of Mis- souri and their institutions; and
Whereas, the present Administration of the Government of the United States has utterly ignored the Constitution, subverted the Gov- ernment as constructed and intended by its makers, and established a despotic and arbitrary power instead thereof; now, therefore,
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Missouri, That all political ties of every character now existing between the Gov- ernment of the United States of America and the people and govern- ment of the State of Missouri are hereby dissolved, and the State of Missouri, resuming the sovereignty granted by compact to the said United States upon the admission of said State into the Federal Union, does again take its place as a free and independent republic amongst the nations of the earth.
This act to take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved October 31, 1861.
I hereby certify the above and foregoing to be a full, true and per- fect copy of the original roll.
In testimony whereof, I have hereto set my hand and the great seal of the State of Missouri this 2nd day of November, 1861.
B. F. MASSEY, Secretary of State.
By another act of the same date the General Assembly of the State took a preliminary step toward full political union with the Confederate States by ratifying the Constitution of the provisional government, as required by the act of August 20, 1861. The act of the assembly is as follows:
An Act ratifying the Constitution of the provisional government of the Confederate States of America.
Whereas, the Congress of the Confederate States of America have, by an act entitled "An act to aid the State of Missouri in repelling in- vasion by the United States, and to authorize the admission of said State as a member of the Confederate States of America, and for other purposes," enacted that "the State of Missouri shall be admitted a mem- ber of the Confederate States of America upon an equal footing with the other States under the Constitution for the provisional government of the same, upon condition that the said Constitution for the pro- visional government of the Confederate States shall be adopted and ratified by the properly and legally constituted authorities of said State;" now, therefore,
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Missouri, as follows: The General Assembly of the State of Missouri, for and in behalf of the people thereof, do hereby accept the provisions of an act of the Congress of the Confederate States of America, as set forth in the preamble to this act, the State of Missouri hereby adopting and ratifying the Constitution for the provisional government of the Con- federate States of America as a member of said Confederacy upon an equal footing with the other States under said Constitution.
Sec. 2. His excellency, C. F. Jackson, governor of this State, is hereby directed and authorized to transmit to the president of said Con- federate States of America an authentic copy of this act in pursuance of section 2 of the act of said Congress above referred to, and to perform all other acts which may hereafter become necessary to secure the ad- mission of the State of Missouri as a member of the said Confederacy.
This act shall be in force from and after its passage. Approved October 31, 1861.
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I hereby certify the above and foregoing to be a full, true and per- fect copy of the original roll.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and the great seal of the State of Missouri this 2nd day of November, 1861.
B. F. MASSEY, Secretary of State.
In transmitting these enactments to the president of the Confed- erate States, Governor Jackson said, in a letter dated at Cassville, Mo., November 5, 1861, that the act ratifying the Constitution would have been submitted to a vote of the people but for the fact that the State was then "invaded by the Federal Army to such an extent as to pre- clude the possibility of holding an election at the present time."
On November 25, 1861, President Davis transmitted to the Con- gress of the Confederate States Governor Jackson's letter, with its en- closures, together with a copy of the convention between the Confed- crate States and the State of Missouri, and on the 28th of November the State was admitted as a member of the Confederate States of America. Following is a copy of the act of admission:
An act to admit the State of Missouri into the Confederacy as a mem- ber of the Confederate States of America.
The Congress of the Confederate States of America do enact, That the State of Missouri be and is hereby admitted as a member of the Confederate States of America, upon an equal footing with the other States of the Confederacy, under the Constitution of the provisional government of the same.
Approved November 28, 1861.
Confederate Prisoners Surrendered and Paroled at Close of the War.
Robert C. Wood, Colonel of Cavalry of the Confederate Army, in his "Confederate Hand Book," which is a most valuable work, and from which much of the data contained in this appendix is compiled, refers to the records of the "Rebellion," Series 2, Vol. 2, page 811, which con- tains the official statement of Confederate prisoners surrendered and paroled at the close of the war, as follows.
Army of Northern Virginia. 27,805
Army of Tennessee 31,243
Army of Missouri 7,978
Army of Department of Alabama. 42,293
Army of Trans-Mississippi Department. 17,686
Army of Department of Florida (paroled by Gen. McCook) 6,428
Total 133,433
Miscellaneous paroles, Department of Virginia. 9,072
Paroled at Cumberland, Md., and other places 9,377
Paroled, Department of Washington. 3,390
Paroled in Virginia, Tennessee, Georgia, Alabama, Louisiana and Texas 13,922
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