Across
- 2. Good at division level, not so good at army command (Hint: in the Western Theatre)
- 3. Known as "Lee's bad old man"
- 5. Called "the most hated man in the Confederacy"
- 7. McClellan's men believed that this general always hit them harder because McClellan's wife broke off her engagement to him
- 11. Convinced he would receive the best terms if he surrendered his position on July 4
- 14. At the war's outset, he was the general most admired by Jefferson Davis
- 15. Pulled off 1864's "Great Beefsteak Raid"
- 16. A U.S. general called him "the greatest cavalry officer ever foaled in America."
- 17. Considered a dismal failure in his first combat assignment, in Western Virginia (he got better)
- 18. Most-feared CSA cavalry leader in the West
Down
- 1. First Confederate general captured (at Gettysburg)
- 3. Even after he married her, this general absent-mindedly would refer to his wife as "Mrs. Brown"
- 4. Supposedly the only officer whom Robert E. Lee would address by his first name
- 6. Promoted to general after Gettysburg, but known for his artillery leadership there
- 8. Shot by his own men in the Wilderness
- 9. Highest-ranking officer in the CSA
- 10. First CSA general KIA
- 12. A cynic would say that his greatest contribution to the cause was getting wounded at Fair Oaks/Seven Pines
- 13. As the old Jim Croce song would say, this rebel Lothario "learned a lesson 'bout messin' with the wife of a jealous man."
- 14. This general's wartime nickname can also refer to hiding the truth
