This table lists every General Officer that served with The Army of Northern
Virginia. If you are a beginning student or new to the study of The War Between The States, you should be aware that this is by no means a listing of all Confederate generals, this table only lists generals that at one time or another served with The Army of Northern Virginia and not its previous incarnation as The Army of the Potomac. Therefore, the listing is limited to general officers who served in the ANV, which dates from 31 May 1862 to 12 April 1865.
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| Name of General | Brig General | Major General | Lieut General | About |
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| Alexander, E. Porter | 26 Feb 1864 | |||
| Anderson, George B. | 9 June 1862 | Died 16 Oct 1862 | ||
| Anderson, George T. | 1 Nov 1862 | |||
| Anderson, Joseph R | 3 Sept 1861 | Resigned 19 July 1863 |
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| Anderson, Richard, H. | 16 March 1861 | 14 July 1862 | 31 May 1864 Temporary |
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| Archer, James, Jay | 3 June 1862 | Captured 1 July 1863 |
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| Armistead, Lewis, A. | 1 April 1862 | Died 5 July 1863 |
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| Barksdale, William | 12 Aug. 1862 | Killed 2 July 1863 |
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| Barringer, Rufus | 1 June 1864 | |||
| Barton, Seth, M. | 11 March 1862 | Captured 6 April 1865 |
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| Battle, Cullen, A. | 20 Aug 1863 | Wounded Cedar Creek |
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| Beale, Richard, L. T. | 6 Jan 1865 | |||
| Beauregard, P.G.T. | 1 March 1861 | General 21 July 1861 |
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| Bee, Barnard, E. | 17 June 1861 | Killed 21 July 1861 |
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| Benning, Henry, L. | 17 Jan 1863 | |||
| Branch, Lawrence, O. | 16 Nov 1861 | Killed 17 Sept 1862 |
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| Brafton, John | 6 May 1864 | |||
| Brevard, Theodore, W. | 28 March 1865 | Captured 6 April 1865 |
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| Bryan, Goode | 29 Aug1863 | Resigned 20 Sept 1864 |
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| Butler, Matthew, C. | 1 Sept 1863 | 19 Sept 1864 | ||
| Chambliss, John R. Jr. | 19 Dec 1863 | Killed 16 Aug 1864 |
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| Chilton, Robert H. | 16 Feb 1864 | |||
| Clingman. Thomas L. | 17 May 1862 | |||
| Cobb, Howell | 12 Feb 1862 | 9 Sept 1863 | ||
| Cobb Thomas, R.R. | 1 Nov 1862 | Killed 13 Dec 1862 |
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| Cocke, Phillip, St-George | 21 Oct 1861 | Suicide 26 Dec 1861 |
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| Colquitt, Alfred H. | 1 Sept 1862 | |||
| Colston, Raleigh, E. | 24 Dec 1861 | |||
| Conner, James | 1 June 1864 | |||
| Cook, Philip | 5 Aug 1864 | Captured 2 April 1865 |
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| Cooke, John, R. | 1 Nov 1862 | |||
| Corse, Montgomery, D. | 1 Nov 1862 | Captured 6 April 1865 |
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| Cox, William R. | 31 May 1864 (temporary) | |||
| Cumming, Alfred | 29 Oct. 1862 | Transferred west | ||
| Daniel, Junius | 1 Sept. 1862 | Killed 12 May 1864 |
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| Davis, Joseph, R. | 15 Sept.1862 | |||
| Dearing, James | 29 April 1864 | Died 23 April 1865 |
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| Dibrell, George, G. | 26 July 1864 | |||
| Doles, George, P. | 1 Nov 1862 | Killed 2 June 1864 |
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| Drayton, Thomas F. | 25 Sept. 1861 | |||
| Dunovant, John | 22 August 1864 (temporary) | Killed 1 Oct. 1864 |
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| Early, Jubal, A. | 21 July, 1861 | 17 Jan 1863 | 31 May 1864 | |
| Echols, John | 16 April 1862 | |||
| Elliot, Stephen, Jr. | 24 May 1864 | |||
| Elzey, Arnold | 21 July1861 | 4 Dec 1862 | ||
| Evans, Clement, A. | 19 May 1864 | |||
| Evans, Nathan, G. | 21 Oct. 1861 | |||
| Ewell, Richard, S. | 17 June 1861 | 24 Jan 1862 | 23 May 1863 | Captured 6 April 1865 |
| Field, Charles, W. | 9 March 1862 | 12 Feb 1864 | ||
| Fomey, William, H. | 15 Feb 1865 | |||
| Fry Birkett, D. | 24 May 1864 | |||
| Gadand, Samuel, Jr. | 23 May 1862 | Killed 14 Sept 1862 |
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| Garnett, Richard, B. | 14 Nov. 1861 | Killed 3 July 1863 |
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| Gary, Martin, W. | 19 May 1864 | |||
| Goodwin, Archibald. | 5 Aug 1864 | Killed 19 Sept 1864 |
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| Goggin, James, M. | 4 Dec. 1864 | Captured 6 April 1865 |
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| Gordon, James, B. | 28 Sept 1863 | Died 18 May 1864 |
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| Gordon, John, B | 1 Nov 1862 | 14 May 1864 | ||
| Gregg, John | 29 Aug 1862 | Killed 7 Oct 1864 |
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| Gregg Maxcy | 14 Dec. 1861 | Died 15 Dec. 1862 |
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| Grimes, Bryan | 19 May 1864 | 15 Feb 1865 | ||
| Hagood, Johnson | 21 July 1862 | |||
| Hampton Wade | 23 May 1862 | 3 Aug. 1863 | 14 Feb 1865 | |
| Harris Nathaniel H. | 20 Jan 1864 | |||
| Hays, Harry, T. | 25 July 1862 | |||
| Heth, Henry | 6 Jan 1862 | 17 Feb 1864 | ||
| Hill, Ambrose Powell | 26 Feb 1862 | 26 May 1862 | 24 May 1863 | Killed 2 April 1865 |
| Hill, Daniel Havey | 10 July 1861 | 26 Mar.1862 | 11 July 1863 | |
| Hoke, Robert, F. | 17 Jan 1863 | 20 April 1864 | ||
| Holmes, Theophilus H | 5 June 1861 | 7 Oct 1861 | 10 Oct 1862 | |
| Hood, John Bell | 3 March 1862 | 10 Oct 1862 | 20 Sept 1863 | General, (temp) 18 July 1864 |
| Huger, Benjamin | 17 June 1861 | 7 Oct 1861 | Relieved 12 July 1862 |
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| Humphreys, Benjamin | 12 Aug 1863 | Governor KY 16 Oct 1865 |
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| Hunton, Eppa | 9 Aug 1863 | Captured 6 April 1865 |
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| Imboden, John, D. | 28 Jan 1863 | |||
| Iverson, Alfred. Jr. | 1 Nov 1862 | |||
| Jackson, Thomas, J. | 17 June 1861 | 7 Aug 1861 | 10 Oct 1862 | Died 10 May 1863 |
| Jenkins, Micah | 22 July 1862 | Killed 6 May 1864 |
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| Johnson, Bradley, T. | 28 June 1864 | |||
| Johnson, Bushrod, R. | 24 Jan 1862 | 21 May 1864 | ||
| Johnson, Edward | 13 Dec 1861 | 28 Feb 1863 | ||
| Johnson, Robert, D. | 1 Sept 1863 | |||
| Jones, David, R. | 17 June 1861 | 10 Mar.1862 | Died 15 Jan 1863 |
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| Jones, John, M. | 15 May 1863 | Killed 6 May 1864 |
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| Jones, John, R. | 23 June 1862 | Captured 4 July 1863 |
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| Jones, William, E. | 19 Sept 1862 | Killed 5 June 1864 |
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| Kemper, James, L. | 3 June 1862 | 19 Sept 1864 | ||
| Kershaw, Joseph, B. | 13 Feb. 1862 | 18 May 1864 | Captured 6 April 1865 |
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| Kirkland, William, W. | 29 Aug 1863 | |||
| Lane, James, H. | 1 Nov 1862 | |||
| Law Evander, M. | 2 Oct. 1862 | |||
| Lee, Fitzhugh | 24 July 1862 | 3 Aug 1863 | ||
| Lee, George, W.C. | 25 June 1863 | 20 Oct. 1864 | Captured 6 April 1865 |
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| Lee, Robert, Edward | 14 May 1861 | General 14 June 1861 |
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| Lee, Stephen, Dill | 6 Nov 1862 | 3 Aug 1863 | 23 June 1864 | |
| Lee, William, H.F. | 15 Sept 1862 | 23 April 1864 | ||
| Lewis, William, G. | 31 May 1864 | Captured 7 April 1865 |
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| Lilley, Robert, D. | 31 May 1864 | |||
| Lomax, Lunsford L. | 23 June 1863 | 10 Aug 1864 | ||
| Long, Armistead, L | 21 Sept 1863 | |||
| Longstreet, James | 17 June 1861 | 7 Oct 1861 | 9 Oct 1862 | |
| McCausland, John | 18 May 1864 | |||
| McComb, William | 20 Jan 1865 | |||
| McGowan, Samuel | 17 Jan 1863 | |||
| McLaws, Lafayette | 35 Sept 1861 | 23 May 1862 | ||
| MacRae, William | 22 June 1864 | |||
| Magruder, John, B. | 17 June 1861 | 7 Oct 1861 | ||
| Mahone, William | 16 Sept 1861 | 30 July 1864 | ||
| Martin, William. T. | 2 Dec 1862 | 10 Nov 1863 | ||
| Moody, Young, M. | 4 March 1865 | |||
| Moore, Patrick, T. | 20 Sept. 1864 | |||
| Morgan, John, T. | 16 Nov 1863 | |||
| Paxton, Elisha, F. | 1 Nov 1862 | Killed 3 May 1863 |
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| Payne, William, H. F. | 1 Nov. 1864 | |||
| Peck, William, R. | 18 Feb 1865 | |||
| Pegram, John | 7 Nov 1862 | Killed 6 Feb 1865 |
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| Pender, William, D. | 3 June 1862 | 27 May 1863 | Died 18 July 1863 |
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| Pendleton, William, N. | 26 March 1862 | |||
| Perrin, Abner, M. | 10 Sept 1863 | Killed 12 May 1864 |
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| Perry, Edward, A | 28 Aug 1862 | |||
| Perry, William, F. | 21 Feb 1865 | |||
| Pickett, George, E. | 14 Jan. 1862 | 10 Oct.1862 | ||
| Posey, Carnot | 1 Nov. 1862 | Died 13 Nov. 1863 |
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| Pryor, Roger, A. | 16 April 1862 | Resigned 18 Aug 1863 |
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| Rains, Gabriel, J. | 23 Sept 1861 | |||
| Ramseur, Stephen, D. | 1 Nov. 1862 | 1 June 1864 | Died 20 Oct. 1864 |
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| Ransom, Matt W. | 13 June 1863 | |||
| Ransom, Robert Jr. | 1 March 1862 | 26 May 1863 | Retired Fall 1863 |
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| Roberts, William, P. | 21 Feb. 1865 | |||
| Robertson, Beverly, H. | 9 June 1862 | Relieved Summer 1863 |
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| Robertson, Jerome, B. | 1 Nov 1862 | |||
| Rodes, Robert, E. | 21 Oct. 1861 | May 1863 | Killed 19 Sept. 1864 |
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| Rosser, Thomas, L. | 28 Sept 1863 | 1 Nov 1864 | ||
| Sanders, John, C.C. | 1 May 1864 | Killed 21 Aug 1864 |
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| Scales, Alfred, M. | 13 June 1863 | |||
| Semmes, Paul, J. | 11 March 1862 | Killed 2 July 1863 |
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| Simms, James, P. | 8 Dec. 1864 | Captured 6 April 1865 |
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| Smith, Gustavus, W. | 19 Sept 1861 | Resigned Feb 1863 |
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| Smith, William | 31 Jan 1863 | 12 Aug 1863 | ||
| Sorrel, Gilbert, M | 27 Oct 1864 | |||
| Stafford, Leroy, A. | 8 Oct 1863 | Killed 5 May 1864 |
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| Starke, William, E. | 6 Aug 1862 | Killed 17 Sept 1862 |
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| Steuart, George H. | 6 March 1862 | |||
| Stevens, Walter, H. | 28 Aug 1864 | Chief Engineer | ||
| Stuart, James, E.B. | 24 Sept 1861 | 25 July 1862 | Killed 11 May 1864 |
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| Taliaferro, William, B. | 4 March 1862 | |||
| Terrill James, B. | 31 May 1864 | Killed 30 May 1864 |
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| Terry, William | 19 May 1864 | |||
| Terry, William, R. | 31 May 1864 | |||
| Thomas, Edward, L. | 1 Nov. 1862 | |||
| Toombs, Robert, A. | 19 July 1861 | Resigned 4 March 1863 |
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| Toon, Thomas, F. | Temporary 31 May 1864 |
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| Trimble, Isaac, R. | 9 Aug 1861 | 17 Jan 1863 | ||
| Walker, Henry, H. | 1 July 1863 | |||
| Walker, James, A. | 15 May 1863 | |||
| Walker, John, G. | 9 Jan 1862 | 8 Nov 1862 | ||
| Walker, Reuben, L. | 18 Feb 1865 | |||
| Wallace, William, H. | 20 Sept 1864 | |||
| Weisiger, David, A. | 31 May 1864 | |||
| Wharton, Gabriel, C. | 8 July 1863 | |||
| Wickham, William, C. | 1 Sept. 1863 | Resigned 9 Nov. 1864 |
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| Wilcox, Cadmus, M. | 21 Oct. 1861 | 3 Aug 1863 | ||
| Winder, Charles, S. | 1 March 1862 | Killed 9 Aug 1862 |
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| Wise, Henry, A. | 5 June 1861 | |||
| Wofford, William, T. | 17 Jan. 1863 | |||
| Wright, Ambrose, R. | 3 June 1862 | |||
| York, Zebulon | 31 May 1864 |