Tennessee Civil War Biographies Page

This page is designed to link to biographies of Tennessee personalities prominent in the American Civil War. If you know of web sites not linked, but perhaps should be, please let me know. Thanks. Jeff Weaver - jweaver300@aol.com

This list is alphabetical for your conveience and is under constant construction.

NOTE: P.A.C.S is the abbreviation for Provisional Army of the Confederate States.

• Generals on the Web
  
• The Generals' Burials Listing
  
• Past Governors of Tennessee
  
• The Political Graveyard
  
• Tennessee Women in the Civil War
  
• Adams, John, Brigadier General, P.A.C.S.
  
• Anderson, Samuel Read, Brigadier General, P.A.C.S.
  
• Armstrong, Frank Crawford Brigaider General, P.A.C.S.
  
• Arnall, Samuel Mayes, U.S. Congress, 6th Dist., 1865-71
  
• Atkins, John DeWitt Clinton, Member C.S. Congress.
  
• Avery, William Tecumsah, U.S. Congress, 10th Dist., 1857-61.
  
• Bate, William Brimage, Major General, P.A.C.S.
  
• Bell, Tyree H., Brigadier General, P.A.C.S.
  
• Brabson, Reese Bowen, U.S. Congress, 3rd Dist. 1859-61
  
• Bridges, George Washington, U.S. Congress, 1st District, 1861-63
  
• Brown, John Calvin, Major General, P.A.C.S.
  
• Brownlow, William Gannaway, Unionist, Newspaper Editor, Reconstruction Governor
  
• Butler, Roderick Randum, Member, U.S. Congress, 1st Dist., 1867- 75
  
• Campbell, Alexander William, Brigadier General, P.A.C.S.
  
• Campbell, William Bowen, Antebellum governor of Tennessee; Brigadier General, U.S.V.; U.S. Congress, 5th Dist., 1866-67.
  
• Carroll, William Henry, Brigadier General, P.A.C.S.
  
• Carter, John Carpenter, Brigadier General, P.A.C.S.
  
• Carter, Samuel Powhatan, Brigadier General, U.S.A; Rear Admiral, U.S.Navy.
  
• Carruthers, Robert Looney, Member, C.S. Congress; C. S. Governor.
  
• Cheatham, Benjamin Franklin, Major General, P.A.C.S.
  
• Clements, Andrew Jackson, Member U.S. Congress, 3rd Dist., 1861- 63
  
• Cluskey, Michael W., Member C.S. Congress.
  
• Colyar, Arthur S., Member C.S. Congress.
  
• Cooper, Edmund, U.S. Congress, 4th Dist., 1865-67
  
• Currin, David M., Member C.S. Congress
  
• Davidson, Henry B., Brigadier General, P.A.C.S.
  
• DeWitt, W. H., Member, C.S. Congress.
  
• Dibrell, George Gibbs, Brigadier General, P.A.C.S.
  
• Donelson, Daniel S., Major General, P.A.C.S.
  
• Etheridge, Emerson, U.S. Congress, 9th Dist., 1859-61
  
• Farragut, David Glasgow, Admiral, U.S. Navy.
  
• Foote, Henry S., Member, C.S. Congress.
  
• Frazer, John W., Brigadier General, P.A.C.S.
  
• Gardenshire, E. L., Member C.S. Congress.
  
• Gentry, Meredith P., Member C.S. Congress.
  
• Gillem, Alvan Cullem, Brigadier General, U.S.Army.
  
• Gordon, George W., Brigadier General, P.A.C.S.
  
• Harris, Isham, Governor
  
• Hatton, Robert Hatton, U.S. Congress, 5th Dist., 1859-61; Brigadier General, P.A.C.S.
  
• Hawkins, Isaac Roberts, U.S. Congress, 7th Dist., 1865-71
  
• Haynes, Landon C., Member, C.S. Senate.
  
• Heiskell, Joseph B., Member C.S. Congress.
  
• Henry, Gustavus A., Member, C.S. Senate.
  
• Hill, Benjamin J., Brigadier General, P.A.C.S.
  
• Houe, John F., Member C.S. Congress.
  
• Humes, William Younger Conn, Brigadier General, P.A.C.S.
  
• Jackson, Alfred E., Brigadier General, P.A.C.S.
  
• Jackson, William H., Brigadier General, P.A.C.S.
  
• Johnson, Andrew, Brigadier General, U.S.V., Military Governor of Tennessee 1862-64, (U.S.), Vice President of the United States 1865. President of the United States, 1865-1869.
  
• Johnson, Bushrod Rust, Major General, P.A.C.S.
  
• Jones, George W., Member, C.S. Congress.
  
• Jones, Thomas M., Member C.S. Congress.
  
• Keeble, Edwin A., Member C.S. Congress.
  
• Leftwich, John William, U.S. Congress, 8th Dist., 1866-67
  
• McComb, William, Brigadier General, P.A.C.S.
  
• McCown, John Porter, Major General, P.A.C.S.
  
• Maney, George, Brigadier General, P.A.C.S.
  
• Maynard, Horace, Member, U.S. Congress, 2nd District 1857-63, 1866-73
  
• Menees, Thomas, Member, C.S. Congress.
  
• Mullins, James, U.S. Congress, 4th Dist., 1867-69
  
• Murray, John P., Member, C.S. Congress.
  
• Nelson, Thomas Amos Rogers, U.S. Congress 1st District, (1859- 61)
  
• Nunn, David Alexander, U.S. Congress, 8th Dist., 1867-69
  
• Palmer, Joseph B., Brigadier General, P.A.C.S.
  
• Pillow, Gideon Johnson, Brigadier General, P.A.C.S.
  
• Prosser, William Farrand, U.S. Congress, 5th Dist., 1869-71
  
• Quarles, James Minor, U.S. Congress, 8th Dist., 1859-61
  
• Quarles, William A., Brigadier General, P.A.C.S.
  
• Rains, James Edward, Brigadier General, P.A.C.S.
  
• Smith, Preston, Brigadier General, P.A.C.S.
  
• Smith, Thomas Benton, Brigadier General, P.A.C.S.
  
• Smith, William Jay, U.S. Congress, 8th Dist., 1869-71
  
• Stokes, William Brickly, U.S. Congress, 3rd Dist., 1865-71.
  
• Strahl, Otho French, Brigadier General, P.A.C.S.
  
• Swan, William G., Member C.S. Congress.
  
• Taylor, Nathaniel Green, Member U.S. Congress, 1st Dist., 1866-67
  
• Thomas, James Houston, U.S. Congress, 6th Dist., 1859-61; C.S.Congress.
  
• Tibbs, William H., Member C.S. Congress.
  
• Tillman, Lewis, U.S. Congress, 4th Dist., 1869-71
  
• Trimble, John, U.S. Congress, 5th Dist., 1867-69
  
• Tyler, Robert C., Brigadier General, P.A.C.S.
  
• Vaughan, Alfred J., Brigadier General, P.A.C.S.
  
• Vaughn, John C., Brigadier General, P.A.C.S.
  
• Walker, Lucius M., Brigadier General, P.A.C.S.
  
• Wilcox, Cadmus M., Major General, P.A.C.S.
  
• Wright, John Vines, U.S. Congress, 7th Dist., 1855-61; C.S. Congress.
  
• Wright, Marcus Joseph, Brigadier General, P.A.C.S.
  
• Zollicoffer, Felix Kirk Brigadier General, P.A.C.S.