Brigadier Generals:
| Name |
Date of rank |
Place of birth |
| George Burgwyn Anderson* |
June 9, 1862 |
Hillsborough |
| Lawrence Simmons Baker |
July 23, 1863 |
Gates County |
| Rufus Barringer |
June 1, 1864 |
Cabarrus County |
| John Decatur Barry^ |
August 3, 1864 |
Wilmington |
| Lawrence O’Bryan Branch* |
November 16, 1861 |
Enfield |
| Thomas Lanier Clingman |
May 17, 1862 |
Hunstville |
| John Rogers Cooke |
November 1, 1862 |
Jefferson Barracks, Missouri |
| William Ruffin Cox^ |
May 31, 1864 |
Scotland Neck |
| Junius Daniel* |
September 1, 1862 |
Halifax |
| Richard Caswell Gatlin |
July 8, 1861 |
Lenoir County |
| Archibald Campbell Godwin* |
August 5, 1864 |
Nansemond County, Virginia |
| James Byron Gordon* |
September 28, 1863 |
Wilkesboro |
| Robert Daniel Johnston |
September 1, 1863 |
Lincoln County |
| William Whedbee Kirkland |
August 29, 1863 |
Hillsborough |
| James Henry Lane |
November 1, 1862 |
Mathews Court House, Virginia |
| Collett Leventhorpe |
February 3, 1865 |
Devonshire, England |
| William Gaston Lewis^ |
May 31, 1864 |
Rocky Mount |
| William MacRae |
November 4, 1864 |
Wilmington |
| James Green Martin |
May 15, 1862 |
Elizabeth City |
| James Johnston Pettigrew* |
February 26, 1862 |
Tyrrell County |
| Matthew Whitaker Ransom |
June 13, 1863 |
Warren County |
| William Paul Roberts |
February 21, 1865 |
Gates County |
| Alfred Moore Scales |
June 13, 1863 |
Reidsville |
| Thomas Fentress Toon^ |
May 31, 1864 |
Columbus County |
| Robert Brank Vance |
March 1, 1863 |
Buncombe County |
Major Generals:
| Bryan Grimes |
February 15, 1865 |
Pitt County |
| Robert Frederick Hoke |
April 20, 1864 |
Lincolnton |
| William Dorsey Pender* |
May 27, 1863 |
Edgecombe County |
| Stephen Dodson Ramseur*^ |
June 1, 1864 |
Lincolnton |
| Robert Ransom Jr. |
May 26, 1863 |
Warren County |
| William Henry Chase Whiting* |
February 28, 1863 |
Biloxi, Mississippi |
Lieutenant Generals:
| Daniel Harvey Hill |
July 11, 1863 |
York District, South Carolina |
| Theophilus Hunter Holmes |
October 10, 1862 |
Sampson County |
*killed in battle
^temporary appointment
Several North Carolina natives living in other states of the Confederacy also served as generals in the Civil War.
