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.

Includes index.

Biographies -- Pierre Gaston Touton Beauregard -- Braxton Bragg - John Cabell Breckinridge -- Simon Bolivar Buckner -- Benjamin Franklin Cheatham -- Basil Wilson Duke -- Nathan Bedford Forrest -- Franklin Gardner -- William Joseph Hardee -- Daniel Harvey Hill -- John Bell Hood -- Albert Sidney Johnston -- Joseph Eggleston Johnston -- John Bankhead Magruder -- John Hunt Morgan -- John Clifford Pemberton -- Leonidas Polk -- Sterling Price -- Edmond Kirby Smith -- Alexander Peter Stewart -- Richard Taylor -- Earl Van Dorn -- Joseph Wheeler