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CONFEDERATE ROSTER.
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LIEUTENANT-GENERALS, IN ORDER OF RANK—Continued.
  Name. State. To Whom to Report. Appoint. Rank. Confirm. Accept.
15 Richard H. Anderson S. Carolina Gen. R. E. Lee June   1, 1864. May  31, 1864. June   1,1864.  . . . . . 
 
Remarks: Commanded Longstreet's corps while he was disabled by wounds encountered in the Battle of the Wilderness.
16 Ambrose P. Stewart Tennessee Gen. J. E. Johnston June 23, 1864. June 23, 1864.  . . . . .   . . . . . 
 
Remarks: Corps composed of the divisions of French, Loring and Walthall, Army of the West.
17 Nathan B. Forrest Tennessee Gen. Beauregard Feb. 28, 1865. Feb. 28, 1865. March 2, 1865.  . . . . . 
 
Remarks: Command composed of the cavalry divisions of Chalmers, Jackson and Buford, McCulloch's Second Missouri cavalry regiment as a special scouting force, and the Mississippi militia; Army of the West.
18 Wade Hampton S. Carolina Gen. J. E. Johnston  . . . . .   . . . . .   . . . . .   . . . . . 
 
Remarks: Commanding cavalry in General Joseph E. Johnston's army during General Sherman's march through the Carolinas, and Butler's division of cavalry from the Army of Northern Virginia.
19 Simon B. Buckner Kentucky  . . . . .  1865.  . . . . .   . . . . .   . . . . . 
 
Remarks: Commanding District of Louisiana.
20 Joseph Wheeler Georgia Gen. J. E. Johnston Feb. 28, 1865. Feb. 28, 1865.  . . . . .   . . . . . 
 
Remarks: Commanding cavalry divisions of Allen, Humes and Dibbrell, composed of the brigades of Allen, Anderson, Breckinridge, Crews, Dibbrell, Ferguson, Harrison, Iverson and Lewis; again, commanding cavalry corps, Army of Tennessee, composed of the divisions of Martin, Kelley and Humes, and at another time a cavalry division in the Army of Tennessee, composed of the brigades of Hagan, Wharton and Morgan.
21 John B. Gordon Georgia Gen. R. E. Lee 1865.  . . . . .   . . . . .   . . . . . 
 
Remarks: Commanding Second Army Corps, Army of Northern Virginia; at the time of General Lee's surrender, General Longstreet was in command of one wing of the Army of Northern Virginia and General Gordon of the other.