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Henry Hopkins Sibley (May 25, 1816 – August 23, 1886) was a brigadier general during the American Civil War, fighting in the Confederate States Army in the New Mexico Territory.

Sibley graduated from the Academy in 1838 and was commissioned a second lieutenant in the 2nd U.S. Dragoons. In the 1850s, he invented the "Sibley tent", which was widely used in the frontier afterwards. He also invented the "Sibley stove," used until the advent of World War II.

After the war, he served as a military advisor to the Khedive of Egypt before returning to the United States where he died at Fredericksburg, Virginia in poverty. He is buried in the City Cemetery at Fredericksburg.