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Graduates of Military Academy at West Point. 43

Lieutenant-General, October 10, 1862. Commanding Army of Mississippi; then corps (Army of Mississippi) in Army of Tennessee. " Folk's Army Mississippi," was commonly known as Folk's Corps when it joined army of Tennessee; sometimes officially called "Folk's Corps d'Armee." Killed June 14, 1864, on Pine Moun- tain, Georgia.

GABRIEL J. RAINS. 482. Born North Carolina. Appointed North Carolina. 13.

Brigadier-General, September 23, 1861. (ist) In charge Bureau of Conscription ('62); (2d) chief of torpedo service ('64).

1828.

HUGH W. MERCER. 510. Born Virginia. Appointed Virginia. 3.

Brigadier-General, October 29, 1861. (ist) Commanding at Sa- vannah, Ga. ; (2d) commanding brigade in W. H. T. Walker's Division, Army of Tennessee.

JOSEPH L. LOCKE. 515. Born Maine. Appointed Maine. 8.

No trace of his having been in the Confederate army. Died in Savannah, Ga., September, 1863. (Cullum says he was in Confed- erate States Army.)

JEFFERSON DAVIS.

530. Born in Kentucky. Appointed Mississippi. 23.

President of the Confederate States.

THOMAS F. DRAYTON.

535. Born South Carolina. Appointed South Carolina. 28.

Brigadier-General, September 25, 1861. Commanding Coast District of South Carolina; then brigade in Trans-Mississippi De- partment.

1829.

ROBERT E. LEE.

542. Born Virginia. Appointed Virginia. 2.

General June 14, 1861. Commanding Army of Northern Vir- ginia; made general-in-chief of the Confederate States armies, Jan- uary 21, 1865.