Confederate Generals Alive in 1915

[Barrycdog]

Richmond Times Dispatch 30 May 1915

 

[7th Mississippi Infantry]

I've always wondered what the surviving veterans thought about military technology during the World War One years.
I can imagine conversations like:

" If we would've had some of them three winged flying contraptions like that Red Barron fellow . . . Grant & Sherman wouldn't have been able to cross the Mis'sippy below Vicksburg."

 

[John Winn]

My dad was seven in 1915. These things always make me think how the war wasn't that long ago really. My parents knew people who lived through the war. Not exactly ancient Egypt.

 

[AUG]

Thanks for posting, never seen some of those images of these generals.

Felix H. Robertson was one of the only or perhaps the only Confederate general that was actually born in Texas. He was mainly an artillery commander throughout most of the war, at one time commanding horse artillery under Joe Wheeler. He was later assigned a cavalry command.

Of course Francis M. Cockrell was the famous commander of the Missouri Brigade.

Evander M. Law was known for commanding what became the Alabama Brigade in Longstreet's Corps, same division as Hood's Texas Brigade.

 

[Moonshiner]

I've always wondered what the surviving veterans thought about military technology during the World War One years.
I can imagine conversations like:

" If we would've had some of them three winged flying contraptions like that Red Barron fellow . . . Grant & Sherman wouldn't have been able to cross the Mis'sippy below Vicksburg."

HaHaHa!!!

 

[63rdOVI]

I believe John McCausland was the last surviving Confederate general when he died at age 90 on January 22, 1927. There is some film of him at his home in Point Pleasant, West Virginia.

 

[ErnieMac]

Looks like they goofed with S. W. (Samuel Wragg) Ferguson and made him into G. W. Ferguson.

 

[HarrisLightCoF]

some film

Some of the film that was captured before this generation passed is pretty amazing. One of my favorites is the enterprising archivist who worked to capture the 'rebel yell!'

 

[East Tennessee Roots]

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Richmond Times Dispatch 30 May 1915

I believe Felix Robertson was the General whose conduct was called into question about the killing of USCT (that had been abandoned on the battlefield) at Saltville, Virginia. A classmate of George Custer.

 

[GELongstreet]

We can add "Stovepipe" Johnson, who lived till 1922; William W. Kirkland (1915) and Thomas B. Smith (1923).

 

[Poor Private]

Basil Duke was Morgan's second in command. And took over after Morgan moved on.

 

[Northern Light]

Basil Duke was Morgan's second in command. And took over after Morgan moved on.

Was he the great Grandpappy of the Dukes of Hazzard?