Six days after the surrender of Confederate commanding general Robert E. Lee, however, Lincoln was assassinated by actor and Confederate sympathizer John Wilkes Booth.

Albert Sidney Johnston ( February 2, 1803 – April 6, 1862 ) served as a general in three different armies: the Texas Army, the United States Army, and the Confederate States Army.

Considered by Confederate President Jefferson Davis to be the finest general officer in the Confederacy before the emergence of Robert E. Lee, he was killed early in the Civil War at the Battle of Shiloh and was the highest-ranking officer, Union or Confederate, killed during the entire war.

In 1863, Confederate general Robert E. Lee's northward advance ended in defeat at the Battle of Gettysburg.

* 1803 – Albert Sidney Johnston, American Confederate general ( d. 1862 )

* 1817 – Lewis A. Armistead, American Confederate general ( d. 1863 )

* 1825 – George Pickett, American Confederate general ( d. 1875 )

* 1821 – James Longstreet, American Confederate general and diplomat ; and former United States Minister to the Ottoman Empire ( d. 1904 )

* 1807 – Robert E. Lee, American Confederate general ( d. 1870 )

* 1821 – John C. Breckinridge, American lawyer and politician, 14th Vice President of the United States and Confederate general ( d. 1875 )

While not disgraced, he was displaced in Southern affection after the war by the leading Confederate general Robert E. Lee.

Davis wanted to serve as a general in the Confederate States Army and not as the president, but accepted the role for which he had been chosen.

* John C. Brown ( 1827 – 1889 ), Confederate general, Tennessee governor, ( D )

James Ewell Brown " Jeb " Stuart ( February 6, 1833 – May 12, 1864 ) was a U. S. Army officer from Virginia and a Confederate States Army general during the American Civil War.

* John George Walker ( 1821 – 1893 ), general in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War

Stuart, American soldier and Confederate Army general ( b. 1833 )

* 1865 – American Civil War: Confederate General Edmund Kirby Smith, commander of the Confederate Trans-Mississippi division, is the last general of the Confederate Army to surrender, at Galveston, Texas.

Beauregard, American Confederate general ( d. 1893 )

* 1817 – Braxton Bragg, American Confederate general ( d. 1876 )

* Micah Jenkins ( 1835 – 1864 ), American Confederate general

His only return to combat was directing a portion of the defenses against the attack by Confederate Lt. Gen. Jubal A.

* 1864 – American Civil War: Battle of Kernstown – Confederate General Jubal Early defeats Union troops led by General George Crook in an effort to keep them out of the Shenandoah Valley.

* 1816 – Jubal Early, American Confederate general ( d. 1894 )

* 1864 – Battle of Cedar Creek – Union Army under Philip Sheridan destroys a Confederate Army under Jubal Early.

Sheridan defeated Confederate General Jubal Early in the Shenandoah Valley, saving Washington, DC from capture.

* July 24 – American Civil War – The Second Battle of Kernstown: Confederate General Jubal Early defeats Union troops led by General George Crook in an effort to keep the Yankees out of the Shenandoah Valley.

* March 2 – Jubal Early, Confederate general ( b. 1816 )

* November 3 – Jubal Early, Confederate general ( d. 1894 )

Although the some 5, 800-man force under his command ( mostly hundred-days ' men amalgamated from the VIII Corps ) and the division of James B. Ricketts from VI Corps was defeated by Confederate General Jubal A.

Under General Jubal A. Early ’ s command and following Lee ’ s orders, General John B. Gordon was to place Lancaster and the surrounding farming area “ under contribution ” for the Confederate Army ’ s war supplies and to attack Harrisburg from the east side of the river, while another portion of Lee ’ s army advanced from the west side.

On March 2, 1865, Waynesboro was the site of the last battle of the Civil War for the Confederate Lt. General Jubal A.

Under the false impression that the Confederate forces stationed in Lynchburg were much larger than anticipated, Hunter was repelled by the forces of Confederate General Jubal Early on June 18, 1864, in the Battle of Lynchburg.

* Fort Early: Named after General Jubal Anderson Early, whose Confederate troops defended the city against invasion by Union General David Hunter.

* Jubal Early ( 1816 – 1894 ), died in Lynchburg, lawyer and Lt. Gen. of the Confederate Army

* Jubal Anderson Early, Confederate General

Preston was followed in later years by Jubal Early, who would later serve as a general for the Confederate Army.

Gen. Wheaton had become a local folk hero when he successfully defended Washington, DC and nearby Fort Stevens from an attack by Confederate General Jubal Early on July 11 – 12, 1864.

Custer, now commanding the 3rd Division, followed Sheridan to the Shenandoah Valley where they defeated the Confederate army of Lt. Gen. Jubal A.

When Confederate Lieutenant General Jubal A.

He and former Confederate general Jubal Early presided over lottery drawings and made numerous public appearances, lending the effort some respectability.

In the week before the Battle of Gettysburg, Confederate Major General Jubal Early's division of Lieutenant General Richard S. Ewell's corps of the Army of Northern Virginia passed through the community on its way northward.

During the American Civil War ( 1861 – 1865 ), York became the largest Northern town to be occupied by the Confederate army when the division of Major General Jubal Anderson Early spent June 28 – 30, 1863, in and around the town while the brigade of John B. Gordon marched to the Susquehanna River at Wrightsville and back.

Confederate Gen. Jubal A.