Confederate generals in order

Confederate generals names

His mother was from North Carolina, but his father was from Connecticut. His family soon relocated to Tipton County, Tennessee, near Memphis, when Wilcox was only two years old. After studying at Cumberland College, he attended West Point, graduating near the bottom of the vaunted class of , which included future notable Civil War generals George B.

McClellan and Thomas J. Wilcox was then sent to serve in the Mexican-American War. For his gallant actions, he was promoted to brevet first lieutenant. After Mexico, Wilcox served in various frontier posts. He then became assistant instructor of infantry tactics at West Point from , when failing health forced him to take a year-long leave to travel through Europe.

He also translated a French text on the evolution of Austrian infantry. He was promoted to brigadier general on October 21, , to serve under General James Longstreet. He and his brigade played a crucial rule in the Battle of Williamsburg. His brigade was held in reserve at Second Bull Run , and he was ill and thus out of action during the Antietam Campaign.

On May 3, he marched his brigade to the sounds of guns at Fredericksburg. Arriving too late to participate in the Second Battle of Fredericksburg, Wilcox nonetheless deployed his brigade and a scant force of cavalry and artillery in the path of a Federal force marching toward the Confederate rear at Chancellorsville. On the second day of the battle, skirmishing along the Emmitsburg Road culminated with division commander Richard H.