| Summary: | (Unable to determine rank in the photograph. Only known wartime photograph.) Graduated form West Point, 1838; Seminole War and Mexican War veteran. Resigned his U.S. Army commission in June 1861 and was commissioned as a major in the Confederate Army in July 1861. After promoting through the grades, Stevenson was promoted to brigadier general in March 1862 and major general in October 1862. Major campaigns and battles include the Vicksburg campaign (captured and exchanged), Missionary Ridge, the Atlanta campaign, Nashville, and the Carolina. After the war, Stevenson returned to Virginia, where he worked as a mining and civil engineer. He died in August 1888 and is buried in Fredericksburg, Virginia. 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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