American Civil War General Officers
from Kentucky
Transcribed by Debbie Quinn.
American Civil War General Officers
from Kentucky
Transcribed by Debbie Quinn.
| Name | State Served | Highest Rank | Birth Date | Death Date | Birth Place |
| Daniel Weisiger Adams | Louisiana | Brigadier General | 1821 | 1872 | Kentucky |
| Andrew Jonathan Alexander | Kentucky | Brigadier General | 1833 | 1887 | Sherwood, Woodford CO, Kentucky |
| Barton Stone Alexander | Kentucky | Brigadier General | 1819 | 1878 | Nicholas County, Kentucky |
| Robert Anderson | Kentucky | Major General | 1805 | 1871 | Louisville, Kentucky |
| John Walker Barringer | Kentucky | Brigadier General | 1832 | 1906 | Shelbyville, Kentucky |
| William Nelson Rector Beall | Arkansas | Brigadier General | 1825 | 1883 | Bardstown, Kentucky |
| Tyree Harris Bell | Tennessee | Brigadier General | 1815 | 1902 | Covington, Kentucky |
| Frank Preston Blair | Missouri | Major General | 1821 | 1875 | Lexington, Kentucky |
| Jeremiah Tilford Boyle | Kentucky | Brigadier General | 1818 | 1871 | Mercer County, Kentucky |
| Thomas E Bramlette | Kentucky | Brigadier General | 1817 | 1875 | Cumberland County, Kentucky |
| John Cabell Breckinridge | Kentucky | Major General | 1821 | 1875 | Lexington, Kentucky |
| Simon Bolivar Buckner | Kentucky | Lieutenant General | 1823 | 1914 | Hart County, Kentucky |
| Abraham Buford | Kentucky | Brigadier General | 1820 | 1884 | Woodford, Kentucky |
| John Buford | Illinois | Major General | 1826 | 1863 | Woodford County, Kentucky |
| Napoleon Bonaparte Buford | Kentucky | Major General | 1807 | 1883 | Woodford CO, Kentucky |
| Stephen Gano Burbridge | Kentucky | Major General | 1831 | 1894 | Scott CO, Kentucky |
| Edward Richard Spigg Canby | Indiana | Major General | 1817 | 1873 | Piatt's Landing, Boone County, Kentucky |
| Charles Candy | Ohio | Brigadier General | 1832 | 1910 | Lexington, Kentucky |
| Christopher Carson | New Mexico | Brigadier General | 1809 | 1868 | Richmond, Kentucky |
| Thomas James Churchill | Arkansas | Major General | 1824 | 1905 | Jefferson County, Kentucky |
| Cassius Marcellus Clay | Kentucky | Major General | 1810 | 1903 | Madison County, Kentucky |
| Joseph Alexander Cooper | Tennessee | Major General | 1823 | 1910 | Cumberland Falls, Kentucky |
| George Blake Cosby | Kentucky | Brigadier General | 1830 | 1909 | Louisville, Kentucky |
| George Bibb Crittenden | Kentucky | Major General | 1812 | 1880 | Russellville, Logan County, Kentucky |
| Thomas Leonidas Crittenden | Kentucky | Major General | 1815 | 1893 | Russellville, Kentucky |
| John Thomas Croxton | Kentucky | Major General | 1837 | 1874 | Bourbon County, Kentucky |
| Basil Wilson Duke | Kentucky | Brigadier General | 1838 | 1916 | Scott County, Kentucky |
| Henry Clay Dunlap | Kentucky | Brigadier General | 1828 | 1872 | Fayette County, Kentucky |
| James Dunlap | Illinois | Brigadier General | 1802 | 1897 | Fleming County, Kentucky |
| John Edwards | Iowa | Brigadier General | 1815 | 1894 | Louisville, Kentucky |
| James Fleming Fagan | Arkansas | Major General | 1828 | 1893 | Clark County, Kentucky |
| Charles William Field | Kentucky | Major General | 1828 | 1892 | Woodford County, Kentucky |
| Joseph Washington Frizell | Ohio | Brigadier General | 1821 | 1874 | Lewis County, Kentucky |
| Cary Harrison Fry | Regular Army | Brigadier General | 1813 | 1873 | Garrard County, Kentucky |
| Speed Smith Fry | Kentucky | Brigadier General | 1817 | 1892 | Boyle County, Kentucky |
| Richard Montgomery Gano | Texas | Brigadier General | 1830 | 1913 | Bourbon County, Kentucky |
| Kenner Garrard | New Hampshire | Major General | 1828 | 1879 | Bourbon County, Kentucky |
| Theophilus Toulmin Garrard | Kentucky | Brigadier General | 1812 | 1902 | Manchester, Kentucky |
| Samuel Jameson Gholson | Mississippi | Brigadier General | 1808 | 1883 | Madison County, Kentucky |
| Randall Lee Gibson | Louisiana | Brigadier General | 1832 | 1892 | Versailles, Kentucky |
| James Isham Gilbert | Iowa | Major General | 1824 | 1884 | Louisville, Kentucky |
| Willis Arnold Gorman | Minnesota | Brigadier General | 1816 | 1876 | Flemingsburg, Kentucky |
| John Breckinridge Grayson | Kentucky | Brigadier General | 1806 | 1861 | Fayette County, Kentucky |
| Roger Weightman Hanson | Kentucky | Brigadier General | 1827 | 1863 | Clark County, Kentucky |
| Thomas Jefferson Harrison | Indiana | Brigadier General | 1824 | 1871 | Shelby County, Kentucky |
| William Harrow | Indiana | Brigadier General | 1820 | 1872 | Winchester, Kentucky |
| James Morrison Hawes | Kentucky | Brigadier General | 1824 | 1889 | Lexington, Kentucky |
| Benjamin Hardin Helm | Kentucky | Brigadier General | 1831 | 1863 | Bardstown, Kentucky |
| William Silliman Hillyer | Regular Army | Brigadier General | 1830 | 1874 | Henderson, Kentucky |
| Edward Henry Hobson | Kentucky | Brigadier General | 1825 | 1901 | Greensburg, Kentucky |
| George Baird Hodge | Kentucky | Brigadier General | 1828 | 1892 | Fleming County, Kentucky |
| Joseph Holt | Kentucky | Major General | 1807 | 1894 | Breckinridge CO, Kentucky |
| John Bell Hood | General | 1831 | 1897 | Owingsville, Kentucky | |
| James Streshly Jackson | Kentucky | Brigadier General | 1823 | 1862 | Fayette CO, Kentucky |
| Adam Rankin Johnson | Brigadier General | 1834 | 1922 | Henderson, Kentucky | |
| Richard W Johnson | Regular Army | Major General | 1827 | 1897 | Smithland, Kentucky |
| Albert Sidney Johnston | Kentucky | General | 1803 | 1862 | Washington, Kentucky |
| William Jennings Landram | Kentucky | Brigadier General | 1828 | 1895 | Lancaster, Kentucky |
| Joseph Horace Lewis | Kentucky | Brigadier General | 1824 | 1904 | Glasgow, Barren County, Kentucky |
| Eli Long | Regular Army | Major General | 1837 | 1903 | Woodford County, Kentucky |
| Hylan Benton Lyon | Kentucky | Brigadier General | 1836 | 1907 | Caldwell County, Kentucky |
| Humphrey Marshall | Kentucky | Brigadier General | 1812 | 1872 | Frankfort, Kentucky |
| William Thompson Martin | Mississippi | Major General | 1823 | 1910 | Glasgow, Kentucky |
| Samuel Bell Maxey | Texas | Major General | 1825 | 1895 | Tompkinsville, Kentucky |
| John Alexander McClernand | Regular Army | Major General | 1812 | 1890 | Hardinsburg, Kentucky |
| John Courts McFerran | Regular Army | Brigadier General | 1820 | 1872 | Glasgow, Kentucky |
| James Winning McMillan | Indiana | Major General | 1825 | 1903 | Clark County, Kentucky |
| Ormsby McKnight Mitchel | Regular Army | Major General | 1810 | 1862 | Morganfield, Kentucky |
| Greenville McNeel Mitchell | Illinois | Brigadier General | 1835 | 1895 | Warren County, Kentucky |
| George Wood Monroe | Kentucky | Brigadier General | 1835 | 1869 | Columbia, Adair County, Kentucky |
| Thomas Armstrong Morris | Regular Army | Brigadier General | 1811 | 1904 | Nicholas County, Kentucky |
| Ely Huston Murray | Kentucky | Brigadier General | 1843 | 1896 | Cloverport, Kentucky |
| William Nelson | Kentucky | Major General | 1824 | 1862 | Maysville, Kentucky |
| Richard James Oglesby | Illinois | Major General | 1824 | 1899 | Oldham CO, Kentucky |
| John McCauley Palmer | Illinois | Major General | 1817 | 1900 | Scott County, Kentucky |
| John Pope | Regular Army | Major General | 1822 | 1892 | Louisville, Kentucky |
| William Preston | Kentucky | Major General | Louisville, Kentucky | ||
| Samuel Woodson Price | Kentucky | Brigadier General | 1828 | 1918 | Nicholasville, Kentucky |
| Thomas L Price | Kentucky | Brigadier General | 1870 | Kentucky | |
| Norman Quinn | Regular Army | Major General | Kentucky | ||
| Joseph Jones Reynolds | Regular Army | Major General | 1822 | 1899 | Flemingsburg, Kentucky |
| Jerome Bonaparte Robertson | Texas | Brigadier General | 1815 | 1891 | Woodford County, Kentucky |
| Lovell Harrison Rousseau | Kentucky | Major General | 1818 | 1869 | Lincoln County, Kentucky |
| William Price Sanders | Regular Army | Brigadier General | 1833 | 1863 | Frankfort, Kentucky |
| James Murrell Shackelford | Kentucky | Brigadier General | 1827 | 1909 | Lincoln County, Kentucky |
| Joseph Orville Shelby | Missouri | Brigadier General | 1830 | 1897 | Lexington, Kentucky |
| William Yarnel Slack | Missouri | Brigadier General | 1816 | 1862 | Mason County, Kentucky |
| Green Clay Smith | Kentucky | Major General | 1832 | 1895 | Richmond, Kentucky |
| Gustavus Woodson Smith | Kentucky | Major General | 1821 | 1896 | Georgetown, Kentucky |
| Alexander Miller Stout | Kentucky | Brigadier General | 1820 | 1895 | Shelby County, Kentucky |
| Joseph Pannell Taylor | Regular Army | Brigadier General | 1796 | 1864 | Louisville, Kentucky |
| Richard Taylor | Lieutenant General | 1826 | 1879 | Louisville, Kentucky | |
| Thomas Hart Taylor | Kentucky | Brigadier General | 1825 | 1901 | Frankfort, Kentucky |
| Charles Mynn Thruston | Regular Army | Brigadier General | 1798 | 1873 | Lexington, Kentucky |
| John Blair Smith Todd | Regular Army | Brigadier General | 1814 | 1872 | Lexington, Kentucky |
| James Milton True | Illinois | Brigadier General | 1823 | 1908 | Scott County, Kentucky |
| Durbin Ward | Ohio | Brigadier General | 1819 | 1886 | Augusta, Bracken County, Kentucky |
| Walter Chiles Whitaker | Kentucky | Major General | 1823 | 1887 | Shelbyville, Kentucky |
| Carr Bailey White | Ohio | Brigadier General | 1823 | 1871 | Mason County, Kentucky |
| John Stuart Williams | Kentucky | Brigadier General | 1818 | 1898 | Mount Sterling, Kentucky |
| James Alexander Williamson | Iowa | Major General | 1829 | 1902 | Adair CO, Kentucky |
| Thomas John Wood | Major General | 1823 | 1906 | Munfordville, Kentucky |
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