11" X 19" UNCUT SHEET OF CONFEDERACY'S MOST NOTABLE FACES ~ LEE, JACKSON, DAVIS, ETC. ~ TOTAL OF 24 SEPARATE CDV'S ~ IN GOOD SHAPE WITH SOME BROWNING AND WEAR AT EDGES ~ READS "CHAS. MAGNUS 12 FRANKFORT ST., NY" UNDER EACH VIEW
LT. GENERAL WADE HAMPTON ~ SOUTH CAROLINA GOVERNOR & U.S. SENATOR
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Colonel, Hampton's South Carolina Legion, July 12, 1861.
Brigadier general, P. A. C. S., May 23,1862.
Major general, P. A. C. S., August 3, 1863.
Lieutenant general, P. A. C. S., February 14, 1865.
Commands.
Brigade composed of Hampton's South Carolina Legion, the Fourteenth and Nineteenth Georgia, and Fifteenth North Carolina Regiments Infantry.
In July 28, 1862, assigned to Cavalry Brigade; brigade composed of First and Second Regiments South Carolina Cavalry, First Regiment North Carolina Cavalry, Jeff. Davis Legion, Cobb's Georgia Legion, and Phillips' Georgia Legion, Army of Northern Virginia.
Division composed of the cavalry brigades of Young, Butler, Rosser and Gordon, Army of Northern Virginia.
Commanding Corps of Cavalry, Army Northern Virginia.
Commanding cavalry of General J. E. Johnston's army and Butler's division of cavalry, from February 16, 1865, during march of General Sherman through the Carolinas.
January 31, 1865, commanding Cavalry Corps, Army of Northern Virginia.
Born: 03/28/1818 in Charleston, SC Died: 04/11/1902 in Columbia, SC
Born: 11/03/1816 in Franklin County, VA Died: 03/02/1894 in Lynchburg, VA USMA: 1837, class rank: 18/50
Promotions
Date
To Rank
Full/Brevet
Army/Vol
Comments
05/02/61
Colonel
Full
Vol
24th VA Infantry
07/21/61
Brig-Gen
Full
Vol
01/17/63
Major-Gen
Full
Vol
05/31/64
Lt General
Full
Vol
Lieutenant-General JUBAL ANDERSON EARLY (U.S.M.A. 1837) was born in Franklin County, Virginia, November 3, 1816, and served in the Seminole War of 1837, after which he resigned to take up the practice of law. In the Mexican War, he served as major of Virginia volunteers, and at the outbreak of the Civil War he entered the Confederate army as colonel, rising to the rank of lieutenant-general in May, 1864.
He commanded a brigade at Bull Run, was wounded at Williamsburg, and had a division at Antietam and afterward. He had temporary command of both the Second and Third corps, Army of Northern Virginia, during the Wilderness campaign, and in June, 1864, was sent with the Second Army Corps to the Shenandoah valley, whence he made his way to Washington and attacked the city on July 12th. His forces were finally routed at Cedar Creek, October 19th, by Sheridan. He was relieved of the command of the Trans-Alleghany Department in March, 1865, after a defeat by Custer.
After the war he practiced law. He refused to take the oath of allegiance to the United States, and died in Lynchburg, Virginia, March 2, 1894. He is recognized as one of the ablest of the Confederate generals.
Source: Miller, vol. 10, p. 248
Colonel, Twenty-fourth Virginia Regiment Infantry, May 2, 1861.
Brigadier general, P. A. C. S., July 21, 1861.
Major general, P. A. C. S., January 17, 1863.
Lieutenant general, P. A. C. S., May 31, 1864.
Died in Lynchburg, Va., March 2, 1894.
Commands.
As colonel, commanded a brigade composed of the Seventh Louisiana and Seventh and Twenty-first Virginia Regiments Infantry. Was at Blackburn's Ford on July 18 and Manassas July 21, 1861.
Afterward appointed brigadier general; brigade composed of (at first) the Fifth and Twenty-third North Carolina and Twenty-fourth Virginia Regiments, the Twenty-third North Carolina being then designated as the Thirteenth North Carolina Volunteers.
In the fall of 1861 the Twentieth Georgia Regiment was added, and in May, 1862, this latter named regiment was exchanged for the Thirty-eighth Virginia.
At the battles of Malvern Hill, Cedar Run and Slaughter Mountain, brigade composed of the Twelfth Georgia and the Thirteenth, Twenty-fifth, Thirty-first, Forty-fourth and Fifty-eighth Virginia Regiments.
In the campaign against General Pope and battles of Sharpsburg and Fredericksburg the brigade was composed of the Thirteenth, Twenty-fifth, Thirty-first, Forty-fourth, Forty-ninth, Fifty- second and Fifty-eighth Virginia Regiments; but at Fredericksburg, as senior brigadier general, was in command of division.
Division (formerly Ewell's) composed of Hays' (formerly Taylor's), Gordon's (formerly Lawton's), Smith's (formerly Early's), and Hoke's (formerly Trimble's), at Fredericksburg (confronting Sedgwick), at time of the battle of Chancellorsville, and at Gettysburg, in the campaign of 1864.
Pegram succeeded to command of Smith's Brigade in fall of 1863. Corps (formerly Ewell's) was composed of Rhodes', Gordon's, and Ramseur's (formerly Early's) Divisions, and five battalions of artillery under command of Brigadier General A. L. Long.
In command of operations in Maryland and Shenandoah Valley in 1864.
January 31, 1865, commanding a division, Second Corps, Army of Northern Virginia.
March 29, 1865, relieved from command of Department of Trans-Alleghany, or Western Virginia and East Tennessee, and ordered to Lynchburg, Va., to await orders.
Early, Jubal Anderson, born in Virginia, appointed from Virginia cadet United States Military Academy, July 1, 1833; graduated eighteenth in a class of fifty.
Resigned July 31, 1838.
Major, First Virginia Volunteers, January 7, 1847; honorably mustered out August 3, 1848.
Captain, Corps of Cavalry, C. S. A., March 16, 1861.
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Colonel Ninth North Carolina Volunteers (First North Carolina Cavalry).
Brigadier general, P. A. C. S., March, 1862.
Major general, P. A. C. S., May 26, 1863.
Died at Newbern, N. C., January 14, 1892.
Commands.
Commanding brigade near Kingston, North Carolina, March 20, 1862.
Commanding Department of South, West Virginia, November 4, 1863.
Commanding Department of Richmond, April 25, 1864.
Division, at battle of Fredericksburg, composed of the brigades of Ransom and Cook.
Commanding Department of Richmond, April 25, to June 13, 1864.
Commanding Sub-district No. 2, Department of South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida, November 5, 1864.
Ransom, Robert, born in North Carolina, appointed from North Carolina cadet United States Military Academy, September 1, 1846; graduated eighteenth in a class of forty-four.
Brevet second lieutenant, First Dragoons, July 1, 1850.
Second lieutenant, October 9, 1851.
First lieutenant, First Cavalry, March 3, 1855.
Regimental adjutant, May 25, 1855, to February 17, 1857.
Captain, January 31, 1861.
Resigned May 24, 1861.
Source: General Officers of the Confederate States of America
Major-General Robert Ransom was born at Bridle Creek, Warren county, N. C., February 12, 1828, the second son of Robert Ransom, his elder brother being the soldier and statesman, Matthew W. Ransom.
He was graduated at the United States military academy in 1850, and promoted to a lieutenancy in the dragoons. As a cadet and officer he was distinguished for splendid horsemanship and the practical qualities of a soldier.
He was on duty at the Carlisle cavalry school until March, 1851, when he led a detachment of troops to Fort Leavenworth, Kan., thence accompanying the command of Col. E. V. Sumner to New Mexico. During the succeeding four years he was engaged in scouting through that territory, Arizona, Texas, Colorado, and Utah, until in the fall of 1854 he was detailed as instructor of cavalry at West Point, under Col. R. E. Lee, superintendent.
With promotion to first lieutenant he joined the new First cavalry in 1855, and served nearly two years as adjutant of the regiment; at Fort Leavenworth, in the Sioux expedition, and in the quelling of the Kansas disturbances. In 1859 he took part in the march to the Arkansas river, and remained on the frontier, with promotion to captain January 31, 1861.
On May 24th, when informed of the secession of his State, he resigned, and on July 4th reached his native State. He was commissioned captain of cavalry, C. S. A., and the Ninth of the first ten regiments of State troops was organized under his direction near Ridgeway.
Of this regiment, thereafter known as the First North Carolina cavalry, he was the first colonel. He started with his regiment to Virginia, October 13, 1861, and in November commanded at Vienna, in the first encounter of the cavalry of the opposing armies.
On March 6, 1862, he was promoted brigadier-general for the express purpose of organizing the cavalry of Generals Johnston and Beauregard in the West and Southwest, but New Bern having fallen, his destination was changed, and he was engaged for a time in holding in check the enemy in eastern North Carolina.
In June, 1862, in command of a brigade of six North Carolina regiments, he was temporarily attached to Huger's division. His troops, though mainly new to battle, were distinguished both at the opening and the close of the bloody Seven Days' struggle.
In the Maryland campaign he commanded a brigade composed of the Twenty-fourth, Twenty-fifth, Thirty-fifth and Forty-ninth regiments, Walker's division, Longstreet's corps; participated in the reduction of Harper's Ferry, and was distinguished at Sharpsburg. In his report of the latter battle General Walker wrote: " To Brigadier-General Ransom's coolness, judgment and skill we are in a great degree indebted for the successful maintenance of our position on the left, which, to have been permanently gained by the enemy, would in all probability have been to us the loss of the battle. "
At the battle of Fredericksburg he was in command of the division, and had immediate charge of the position on Marye's and Willis' hills, where the severest fighting of the battle occurred. He subsequently served with his division in North Carolina in defense of the Weldon railroad, until May, 1863, when he was promoted major-general and given charge of the district including the Appomattox and Blackwater.
He was in command at Richmond until July of that year, when he was for some time disabled by illness. In October, 1863, he took command in east Tennessee and drove the Federals as far south as Knoxville, and remained in that department in command of cavalry under Longstreet and Buckner, until April, 1864, when he was ordered to Richmond, with the intention of assigning him to command of the Trans-Mississippi department.
But the condition at the Confederate capital compelled his retention there, where he met Butler's operations at Bermuda Hundred and Sheridan's and Kautz's raids with the handful of men at his disposal. He commanded Beauregard's left wing at the battle of Drewry's Bluff, May 16th, and gallantly stormed the enemy's breastworks, playing a prominent part in the "corking up" of Butler's army.
In June he took command of Early's cavalry in the movement against Hunter and the expedition through Maryland against Washington. In August he was relieved on account of illness, in September served as president of a court of inquiry connected with Morgan's operations in Kentucky, in November was assigned to command at Charleston, but was soon compelled by illness to abandon that post. He surrendered to General Howard at Warrenton, May 2, 1865.
In the trying times following the close of hostilities he found employment as express agent and city marshal at Wilmington, subsequently engaged in farming until 1878, and then accepted a position as civil engineer in charge of river and harbor improvements by the national government, making his home at New Bern.
General Ransom was married in 1856 to Minnie Huntt, of Washington, who died in 1881, leaving eight children. In 1884 he married Katherine DeWitt Lumpkin, of Columbus, Ga.
was born in Cherry Grove, near Farmville, Virginia, February 3, 1807. He served in the Black Hawk, Seminole, and Mexican wars, in the last of which he was twice severely wounded. He resigned his rank of brigadier-general to enter the Confederate service on April 20, 1861, and was given the rank of general in August. He was in command at Harper's Ferry after May 24th, and headed the Army of the Shenandoah. He brought his troops to Manassas and superseded Beauregard in the command, at Bull Run, joining his force to the Army of the Potomac. In command of the Army of Northern Virginia, he was severely wounded at Fair Oaks. In November, 1862, he was assigned to the head of the Department of Tennessee, but outside of an attempt to relieve Pemberton at Vicksburg in May,1863, he saw no active service until he assumed command of the Army of Tennessee in December, 1863. He opposed Sherman during the Atlanta campaign of 1864, being superseded by General Hood on July 18th. His strategy was much criticised at the time, but it is now recognized that he displayed great ability during the campaign. In February, 1865, he was again given command of the Army of Tennessee, and attempted to prevent Sherman's advance through the Carolinas. Johnston's capitulation was agreed upon near Durham's Station, North Carolina, April 26, 1865. He was United States commissioner of railroads from 1885 to 1889. He died in Washington, March 21. 1891.
