serviceyears branch lieutenant death_date allegiance term birth_date death_place profession footnotes battles order spouse rank image name predecessor birth_place party office nickname state district successor article_title
1861 -- 1863 csa samuel price 18 may 1887 confederate states of america 1863 1876 1864 & ndash ; may 9 , 1865 january 1 -- , 1846 & ndash ; january 1 , 1849 march 1877 4 , 1853 -- march 3 , 1861 december 6 alongside , 1841 -- march 3 , 1843 1836 -- 1840 h.b. kerrick january 1 , 6 september 1797 warrenton , virginia politician , lawyer * orange county . until 1838 , greene county was part of american -lrb- june 1861 -rrb- * first battle of manassas * civil battle of seven pines * seven days battles * second war battle of manassas * battle of sharpsburg * second battle * of fredericksburg * battle of gettysburg battle of fairfax court house 30th and 35th elizabeth bell 35px major general hon. smith - nara - 528722.jpg william smith john daniel f. slaughter letcher james mcdowell thomas h. bayly linn banks marengo , virginia democrat member county governor of virginia member of the virginia senate from of culpeper , madison , orange , rappahannock and greene counties the * virginia house of delegates from fauquier `` extra billy '' virginia virginia 7th 13th francis george w. hopkins john woolfolk harrison pierpont john b. floyd charles h. upton william smith -lrb- virginia governor -rrb-

william smith -lrb- virginia governor -rrb-

william `` extra billy '' smith -lrb- september 6 , 1797may 18 , 1887 -rrb- was a lawyer , congressman , the 30th and 35th governor of virginia , and a major general in the confederate states army during the american civil war .
on his appointment in january 1863 , at the age of 65 , smith was the oldest confederate general to hold field command in the war .
