| Summary: | (Uniform indicates rank of brigadier general.) Virginia state politician and attorney, and veteran of the Mexican War. A major general in the Virginia state militia, commissioned as a colonel in the Confederate Army at the outbreak of war. Promoted to brigadier general in March 1862 and major general in January 1865. Major campaigns and battles include the 1862 Valley campaign, Second Manassas, Groveton (wounded), Fredericksburg, Charleston, and the Carolinas. After the war, Taliaferro returned to Virginia politics and law. He died at his home in February 1898. 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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