== History of Confederate States Army Generals == 
 Ran across a summary that was done in Journal of Mississippi History, August 1977 by Haight and Burns (no not that one!  ). It claims 425 total generals. 20% of total generals were killed in action (77). 40 of Field generals (whatever that means) were killed in action. I thought that nearly everybody was on the field in those days. No remote staff.  

 It claims (slight differences from this article) 8 full generals, 17 lt generals, 72 maj generals and 328 BGs. 125 had been professional soldiers before the war. The largest supply came from former "lawyers, jurists" = 129!    
 : There were seven full generals, as John Hood's appointment was temporary and never confirmed (stated in the article), but would bring the total to eight. "Field" refers to line officers, as opposed to staff, men such as Samuel Cooper, who never saw combat and held administrative/war department positions. The source I used for referencing the total no. in each rank is Eichers' Civil War High Commands, and the generals killed info comes from Foote's Civil War: A Narrative third volume. Do you possibly know what Lt. General or any of the Major Generals not included in the lists of your source? What records or methods did they employ in their research? A lot of the Confederacy's official records are long gone, so info at times can be sketchy, but Eichers' work is used quite a lot on the ACW pages here. I have found a few instances of Foote's work using inaccurate data, but never used it if I knew. Perhaps more eyes on this are needed.