This book details the careers, personalities and appearance of Confederate commanders who made their names mainly with the Army of Northern Virginia in the Eastern theater of war.

Francis Channing Barlow -- Ambrose Everett Burnside -- Benjamin Franklin Butler -- Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain -- Darius Nash Couch -- George Armstrong Custer -- William Buel Franklin -- William Henry French -- John Gibbon -- Winfield Scott Hancock -- Joseph Hooker -- Andrew Atkinson Humphreys -- Henry Jackson Hunt -- Philip Kearny -- George Brinton McClellan -- Irvin McDowell -- George Gordon Meade -- Alfred Pleasanton -- John Pope -- Fitz John Porter -- John Fulron Reynolds -- James Brewerton Ricketts -- Winfield Scott -- John Sedgwick -- Philip Henry Sheridan -- Daniel Edgar Sickles -- George Stoneman -- Edwin Vose Sumner.