Talk:List of American Civil War generals

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Contents 1 Hey 2 List 3 Changes 4 Suggestion

[edit] Hey

Hey y'all. I created this page today because I discovered in school today, that no page on Civil War Generals existed. I have gone online and gotten a considerable lengthed list compiled, and will probably be working on this for all of a week or two. Any additions would be greatly appreciated, and, if some people would be willing to do bio's on some of the Generals, that would also help a ton. Daniel VanAlstyne 21:48, 13 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] List

Nice work on the list. I just renamed it to conform to Wikipedia naming conventions for List articles. I find it interesting that all of the red links are on the Union side. We have some busy Rebels out there. :-) Hal Jespersen 00:44, 28 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Changes

Whoever keeps reverting back to that list format,please stop because, it has a lot of mistakes.Leave it on the current version.Thanks. Robert Luna III 13:43, 2 January 2008 (UTC)

I don't understand could you please clarify?--Kumioko (talk) 22:23, 2 January 2008 (UTC)

Many of the Confederate generals are on the Union side which, has all of the letters of the alphabet while, the Confederate side only goes to L.Some of the entries aren't even generals,among other things. Robert Luna III 13:09 3 January 2008 (UTC)

Personnaly, I think it would be better to list them all alphabetically, without regard to wether they were union or confederate. That way if yuo wanted to find a name you could go to A and find it rather than try and determine if they where union or confederate. I believe the reason some where not generals is due to the fact that they may not have remained a general after the war. Many where reduced to other ranks such as LtCol.--Kumioko (talk) 21:49, 3 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Suggestion

Do to the length of this list I would like to either combine both confederate and union generals into one table like list broken down by Last Name alphabetically or split it into 2 lists, 1 for Union and the other for confederate. Does anyone have any preference either way?--Kumioko (talk) 19:46, 26 March 2008 (UTC)

I have cleaned up, consolidated and added info to this as a list. If you wish to see it or to assist in editing it click this link, If there are no objections and once I have completed it I will replace this list with the Table list I created. Please let me know if you have any ovjections.--Kumioko (talk) 21:45, 31 March 2008 (UTC)