Civil War Generals (Confederate)

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