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Generals Who Died In the Civil War
| August 10, 1861 | Battle of Wilson's Creek [US]
Battle of Springfield [CS] Brigadier General Nathaniel Lyon [US] is killed in the Confederate victory |
Missouri |
| Sterling Price | ||
| January 19, 1862 | General Felix Zollicoffer is shot and killed when he accidently crosses the Union line and speaks to Col. S. S. Fry [US] at the battle of Mill Springs | Kentucky |
| Battle of Mill Springs | ||
| Felix Zollicoffer | ||
| April 6, 1862 | On the first day of the battle of Shiloh/Pittsburg Landing, General Albert Sidney Johnston, commander of the Department of the West is killed while leading an advance against a Union position in a peach orchard. | Tennessee |
| Albert Sidney Johnston | ||
| June 29, 1862 | During the Battle of Peach Orchard Confederate Brigadier General Richard Griffith is killed by an artillery blast | Virginia |
| August 6, 1862 | Union Brigadier General Robert McCook, ill and riding in an ambulance, is attacked by Confederate raiders between Athens, AL and Descherd, TN. He dies from his wounds. | |
| September 1, 1862 | Battle of Chantilly
Union Major General Phillip Kearny [US] is shot and killed when he crosses Rebel lines while riding his horse. Gen Issac I. Stevens [US] is also killed |
Virginia |
| Battle of Chantilly | ||
| September 14, 1862 | Brigadier General Samuel Garland [CS] is mortally wounded during the Battle of Fox's Gap, dying later that day. Later that day, Major General Jesse Reno [US] is also mortally wounded a few feet from the spot where Garland fell. | Maryland |
| Samuel Garland | ||
| September 29, 1862 | General William A. Nelson gets into an altercation with General Jefferson C. Davis at the Galt House in Louisville, Kentucky. Davis returns later with a gun and shoots and kills Nelson. | Kentucky |
| Confederate Invasion of Kentucky | ||
| William 'Bull' Nelson | ||
| December 13, 1862 | Confederate General T. R. R. Cobb dies during the battle of Fredericksburg. South Carolinian Maxcy Gregg is mortally wounded and dies two days later. | Georgia |
| Fredericksburg | ||
| May 2, 1863 | General Stonewall Jackson is shot 3 times in a friendly fire incident | Virginia |
| Stonewall Jackson | ||
| Chancellorsville | ||
| May 7, 1863 | Major General Earl van Dorn [CS] is killed by a jealous husband. | |
| Earl Van Dorn | ||
| May 10, 1863 | Stonewall Jackson dies at a field hospital near Guiney Station, VA, | Virginia |
| Stonewall Jackson | ||
| July 1, 1863 | General John Reynolds is killed west of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. Less than a month earlier, Abraham Lincoln had offered him command of the Army of the Potomac | |
| John Reynolds | ||
| September 21, 1863 | Mortally wounded at Chickamauga, Confederate Brigadier General Benjamin "Ben" Hardin Helms dies. He was Abraham Lincoln's brother-in-law. | Georgia |
| Battle of Chickamauga | ||
| Abraham Lincoln | ||
| May 9, 1864 | General John Sedgwick [US] is killed by a Confederate sharpshooter during the battle of Spotsylvania. He is replaced by Horatio Wright | |
| John Sedgwick | ||
| June 14, 1864 | While inspecting his lines, Leonidas Polk is killed at Pine Mountain by an artillery blast ordered by William Tecumseh Sherman. | Georgia |
| Leonidas Polk | ||
| Atlanta Campaign | ||
| William Tecumseh Sherman | ||
| July 22, 1864 | During the Battle of Atlanta, Major General James McPherson, commander of the Army of the Tennessee is killed when he accidently crosses Confederate lines. | |
| Army of the Tennessee | ||
| Battle of Atlanta | ||
| July 22, 1864 | Major General W. H. T. Walker is killed by Union forces while scouting a position before the Battle of Atlanta | |
| Battle of Atlanta | ||
| September 19, 1864 | 3rd battle of Winchester (Opequon Creek)
Phil Sheridan [US], with a force of 40,000 men, strikes Jubal Early's [CS] 14,000 man Confederate army north of Winchester. Sheridan simply overpowered the Confederates. General Robert E. Rodes was mortally wounded in the conflict. |
Virginia |
| Jubal Anderson Early | ||
| Philip Sheridan |
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