Philip Dale Roddey (April 2, 1826 – July 20, 1897)  A brigadier general in the army of the Confederate States of America during the American Civil War. Roddey was born in Moulton, Lawrence County, Alabama, to Philip and Sarah Roddey.…

John Austin Wharton (July 23, 1828 – April 6, 1865) A lawyer, plantation owner, and Confederate general during the American Civil War. He is considered one of the Confederacy’s best tactical cavalry commanders. Wharton was born near Nashville, Tennessee, as…

Lafayette McLaws ( January 15, 1821 – July 24, 1897) United States Army officer and a Confederate general in the War for Southern Independence. He served at Antietam and Fredericksburg, where Robert E. Lee praised his defense of Marye’s Heights,…

H. T. KEIRSEY Pictured is Private Hiram Taylor Kersey of Cannon County, Tennessee who was only thirteen years old in May of 1861 when he enlisted in Company A of Colonel John Savage’s 16th Tennessee Volunteer Infantry Regiment. A mere…