General officers in the Confederate States Army Edmund Kirby Smith, who was appointed general late in the war and into the PACS. Pierre G.T. Beauregard, had also initially been appointed a PACS general but was elevated to ACSA two months later with the same date of rank. These generals outranked all other grades of generals, as well as all lesser officers in the Confederate States Army. The first group of officers appointed to general were Samuel Cooper, Albert Sidney Johnston, Robert E. Lee, Joseph E. Johnston, and Pierre G.T. Beauregard, with their seniority in that order. This ordering caused Cooper, a staff officer who would not see
History of the Office of The Inspector General of the United States Army of colonels of cavalry. Parker's position was eliminated. During the Mexican–American War, the inspector general served as second in command of the army. From 1821 to 1861, the position went relatively unchanged. Upon the outbreak of the American Civil War, all inspectors had retired or defected to the Confederate States of America. In 1861, new inspectors were appointed, but they largely did what their superiors requested. There were many informally appointed inspectors. By late 1862, "Nearly 1,400 other officers were on orders at one time or another to perform various types of inspection duties." In January 1863, Delos Bennett Sackett