This listing shows the names and ranks of some of the Regular Army of the Confederate States of America (ACSA) officers, as well as their ranks in the volunteer Provisional Army of the Confederate States (PACS), if any. These officers fought for the Confederate States during the American Civil War. These lists also show the final regular unit ...

At the beginning of the Civil War, the ranks and rank insignias for the fledgling Confederate States Army had to be developed while the volunteer forces of the individual states that formed the Confederacy made up their own ranks and insignias.

Mar 1, 2024 · Williams, James H. – Private, August 24, 1861. Appointed Adjutant of the 3d Battalion, Georgia Sharpshooters, June 29, 1863. Elected 1st Lieutenant of Company 3d Battalion, Georgia Sharpshooters. Captured at Sailor’s Creek, Virginia, April 6, 1865. Released at Johnson’s Island, Ohio, June 20, 1865. WILLIAMS, JAMES H.

There were 18 lieutenant generals in the Confederate States Army, and these general officers were often corps commanders within armies or military department heads in charge of geographic sections and all soldiers in those boundaries.

Junior officers up to captain had a less elaborate pattern of braid on their tunic cuffs and wore collar insignia of three horizontal bars for a captain, two for a first lieutenant and one for a second lieutenant.

Alonzo Hereford Cushing was born on Jan. 19, 1841, in Delafield, Wisconsin, and was raised in Fredonia, New York. Cushing was appointed to the United States Military Academy at West Point,...

First Sergeant, Ordnance Sergeant, Hospital Steward, Sergeant Major etc.) wore crimson worsted waist sashes (In the Confederate States Army, all Sergeant ranks wore swords AND worsted waist sashes: red for Artillery and Infantry, yellow for Cavalry).

In the U.S. Army, Marine Corps, and Air Force, a First Lieutenant (O-2) is the second-lowest ranking commissioned officer. It is one grade above the rank of Second Lieutenant (O-1) and one grade below a Captain (O-3).

The Army of the Confederate States of America (ACSA) was the regular army and was authorized to include 15,015 men, including 744 officers, but this level was never achieved. ... Jackson McCurtain, Lieutenant Colonel of the First Choctaw Battalion in Oklahoma, CSA.

Junior officers up to captain had a less elaborate pattern of braid on their tunic cuffs and wore collar insignia of three horizontal bars for a captain, two for a first lieutenant and one for a second lieutenant.