Abraham Buford

Abraham “Abe” Buford II served as a soldier in the U.S. Army during the Mexican-American War before joining the Confederate States Army in 1862, where he served as a cavalry general in the Western Theater of the Civil War. He was born in Kentucky in 1820 and died in 1884.

Tyree H. Bell

Tyree Harris Bell served as a senior officer of the Confederate States Army during the Civil War. He was born in 1815 and died in 1902.

Edward Crossland

Edward Crossland commanded a brigade of cavalry in the Western Theater as a Confederate army officer during the Civil War. Afterward he served as a United States representative from Kentucky. He was born in 1827 and died in 1881.

William H. Jackson

William Hicks “Red” Jackson, a West Point graduate, served briefly in the U.S. Army before resigning when the Civil War broke out. He joined the Confederate Army, rising to the rank of brigadier general commanding cavalry by the end of the war. He was born in 1835 and died in 1903.

Frank C. Armstrong

Frank Crawford Armstrong, a U.S. Army cavalry officer, later served as a brigadier general in the Confederate States Army during the Civil War. He is notable as the only Confederate general known to have fought for the Union early in the war before switching sides. He was born in 1835 and died in 1909.

Lawrence S. Ross

Lawrence Sullivan “Sul” Ross served as a Confederate States Army general during the Civil War, commanding Texas cavalry. After the war he became the 19th governor of Texas, serving from 1887 to 1891, and later the fourth president of what is now Texas A&M University. He was born in 1838 and died in 1898.