- Joined
- Nov 8, 2018
- Location
- Palm Coast, Florida
I am seeking to make a list of prominent U.S. Army generals, soldiers, and maybe even civilian public figures, who are the descendants of Confederates.
This is the list I have atm:
- LtG. George S. Patton III (1885 - 1945) - Prominent U.S. Army general in World War 2. Patton is the grandson of George S. Patton, Colonel of the 22nd Virginia Regiment, brigade commander at the famous Battle of New Market, mortally wounded at 3rd Battle of Winchester; also grand nephew of Waller T. Patton, also was a Colonel of the 7th Virginia, killed at Pickett's Charge; 3 other ancestors fought in the war, all brothers of the 2 previously mentioned Pattons. It should also be noted that, when George III was raised in California, he'd be visited by the Gray Ghost John S. Mosby, who would tell the boy stories of his feats in the war. This would have a noted affect on the boy, to say the least.
- LtG. Simon Bolivar Buckner, Jr. (1886 - 1945) - The highest ranking U.S. General killed in action by enemy fire (A. S. Johnston of Civil War fame, of course, is highest ranking American General killed in action; Buckner, though, died serving the U.S. Army), at Okinawa during WW2, in command of the U.S. 10th Army. His father was the influential Simon Bolivar Buckner, Sr. Yes, the son of a Confederate general fought for the country his father fought against. This factoid I find so odd, for so many reasons.
- Brigadier General Nathan Bedford Forrest III (1905 - 1943) - U.S. Army Air Force Officer, killed in action over Germany in a bombing raid. Y'all can brobably guess already who his grandfather was.
I could add folks like director D. W. Griffith and author William Faulkner if it is felt this listing should include more general figures.
This is the list I have atm:
- LtG. George S. Patton III (1885 - 1945) - Prominent U.S. Army general in World War 2. Patton is the grandson of George S. Patton, Colonel of the 22nd Virginia Regiment, brigade commander at the famous Battle of New Market, mortally wounded at 3rd Battle of Winchester; also grand nephew of Waller T. Patton, also was a Colonel of the 7th Virginia, killed at Pickett's Charge; 3 other ancestors fought in the war, all brothers of the 2 previously mentioned Pattons. It should also be noted that, when George III was raised in California, he'd be visited by the Gray Ghost John S. Mosby, who would tell the boy stories of his feats in the war. This would have a noted affect on the boy, to say the least.
- LtG. Simon Bolivar Buckner, Jr. (1886 - 1945) - The highest ranking U.S. General killed in action by enemy fire (A. S. Johnston of Civil War fame, of course, is highest ranking American General killed in action; Buckner, though, died serving the U.S. Army), at Okinawa during WW2, in command of the U.S. 10th Army. His father was the influential Simon Bolivar Buckner, Sr. Yes, the son of a Confederate general fought for the country his father fought against. This factoid I find so odd, for so many reasons.
- Brigadier General Nathan Bedford Forrest III (1905 - 1943) - U.S. Army Air Force Officer, killed in action over Germany in a bombing raid. Y'all can brobably guess already who his grandfather was.
I could add folks like director D. W. Griffith and author William Faulkner if it is felt this listing should include more general figures.