| Summary: | (Uniform indicates rank of major general or higher.) Graduated from West Point, 1842. Resigned his U.S. Army commission in 1845. Commissioned as a major in the Confederate Army at the outbreak of war. After promoting through the grades, Stewart was promoted to brigadier general in November 1861, major general in June 1863, and lieutenant general in June 1864. Major campaigns and battles include Shiloh, the Kentucky campaigns, Perryville, Stones River, Chickamauga, Chattanooga, the Atlanta campaign, and the Carolina campaign. After the war, Stewart resumed teaching. He died in Biloxi, Mississippi, in August 1908 and is buried in St. Louis, Missouri. Sources: Boatner, Mark M. The Civil War Dictionary. New York: Vintage Books, 1988. Davis, William C., ed. The Confederate General. Vol. 6. National Historical Society, 1991.
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