This is a list of U.S. counties named after prominent Confederate historical figures. The counties are named primarily for Confederate politicians and military officers. Most counties are located in former Confederate States, whilst five counties are located in what was the Indian Territory (present-day Oklahoma), a territory that was aligned and controlled by the Confederacy. Four further counties are in Border States (three in Kentucky and one in Missouri). Four counties are located in a Union State (Kansas) whilst two further counties are in New Mexico; which consisted of two territories, one of which was controlled by the Union and one by the Confederacy until the Union gained control of both. Though Tennessee, a former Confederate state, doesn’t have any counties directly named after any Confederate leaders, Tennessee does have some counties named after relatives of some Confederate leaders, some of which have the same last name, such as Cheatham County, Tennessee. There are 120 counties in total.
The most common Confederacy-related county names are "Lee County" (for Robert E. Lee) with eight examples, and "Jeff Davis County" or "Jefferson Davis County" (for Jefferson Davis) with four examples. Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar has three counties named after him whilst David Rice Atchison, Patrick Cleburne, Alexander Stephens, and Henry A. Wise, have two counties each named after them. There are also two "Johnson County" examples however one of them, in rural Southeast Georgia is named for Herschel V. Johnson and the other, in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex is named for Col. Middleton Tate Johnson Sr. Some counties are named after individuals who were closely related to Confederate leaders such as Hardeman County, Tennessee (named after the father of Confederate brigadier general William Polk Hardeman) and Lee County, Virginia (named after the father of Confederate general-in-chief Robert E. Lee).
| Place name | State | Named after |
|---|---|---|
| Colonel William Penn Adair of the First Regiment of Cherokee Mounted Rifles, Cherokee Nation delegate | ||
| James L. Alcorn, Confederate brigadier general and Governor of Mississippi | ||
| Henry Watkins Allen, Confederate brigadier general and Governor of Louisiana | ||
| Joseph C. Anderson, member of a secret militant group "Southern League" which smuggled weapons south to the Confederacy, also famous for refusing to take an oath of allegiance to the Union, Border Ruffian, Speaker pro Tempore of the Kansas Territorial Legislature | ||
| Named in honor of Arlington House, the home of General Robert E. Lee, originally named after Arlington Archeological Site where the family originated | ||
| David Rice Atchison, Confederate brigadier general of the Missouri Home Guard, U.S Senator and President pro tempore of the United States Senate | ||
| Confederate soldier Augustus Octavius Bacon, speaker of the Georgia House of Representatives | ||
| Confederate Senator James McNair Baker | ||
| General Francis Marion Bamberg | ||
| Colonel Francis S. Bartow, killed at the First Battle of Manassas, the first brigade commander of the Confederate States Army to die in combat | ||
| General P.G.T. Beauregard, one of the designers of the Confederate Battle Flag | ||
| Benjamin Harvey Hill, member of the Confederate Senate, U.S Representative and U.S. Senator | ||
| Brigadier General Samuel Benton, 34th Mississippi Infantry Regiment, mustered from the same counties from which Benton County was formed in 1870 | ||
| Confederate soldier Logan Edwin Bleckley, Chief Justice of the Georgia Supreme Court | ||
| Captain Richard Bradford, killed in the Battle of Santa Rosa Island, the first Confederate officer from Florida to die in the American Civil War | ||
| Confederate soldier Benjamin Daniel Brantley, Georgia state representative | ||
| Colonel Henry Percy Brewster | ||
| Albert G. Brown, member of the Confederate Senate, U.S Representative, U.S. Senator and Governor of Mississippi | ||
| Colonel John Lafayette Camp, Texas state senator | ||
| First Lieutenant Allen Daniel Candler, U.S Representative, Georgia Secretary of State and Georgia Governor | ||
| First Lieutenant Thomas B. Catron, U.S Representative, U.S Senator and Mayor of Santa Fe | ||
| Confederate soldier Thomas Jefferson Chambers, Texas state representative | ||
| William Parish Chilton, Alabama Supreme Court Justice and Confederate congressman | ||
| Major General Patrick Cleburne | ||
| Captain Richard Coke, U.S Senator and Governor of Texas | ||
| General Philip Cook, U.S. Representative | ||
| Confederate soldier Charles Frederick Crisp, Speaker of the United States House of Representatives | ||
| Confederate soldier David C. Cross, local politician | ||
| Lieutenant Colonel David B. Culberson, U.S Representative | ||
| Confederate Soldier Stockton P. Donley and associate justice of the Supreme Court of Texas | ||
| Brigadier General Mathew D. Ector | ||
| Congress of the Confederate States Representative John Milton Elliott, helped organised the Confederate government of Kentucky, U.S Representative | ||
| Major George Bernard Erath, raised a company of the Fifteenth Texas Infantry regiment, Texas state representative and Texas state senator | ||
| Brigadier General Clement A. Evans, notably commanded infantry in the Eastern Theater of the American Civil War, later edited a 12-volume work on Confederate military history, so named, in 1899 and was president of the United Confederate Veterans | ||
| Captain Sandford C. Faulkner, composer and fiddler known for the "Arkansas Traveler" | ||
| Named for its county seat Florence, founded by General William Harllee, president of the Wilmington & Manchester Railroad and South Carolina Lieutenant Governor, who in turn named the town after his daughter Florence Harlee (as Harleesville already existed) | ||
| Major Robert L. Foard | ||
| Augustus Hill Garland, member of the Confederate Senate, U.S. Senator, United States Attorney General and Governor of Arkansas | ||
| Colonel James Z. George, Chief Justice of the Mississippi Supreme Court and U.S Senator | ||
| Confederate soldier George Washington Glasscock, Texas state representative | ||
| William Alexander Graham, member of the Confederate Senate, U.S. Senator, United States Secretary of the Navy and Governor of North Carolina | ||
| Peter W. Gray, member of the Confederate House of Representatives for the Houston district | ||
| Brigadier General John B. Gregg | ||
| Congress of the Confederate States Representative Alfred B. Greenwood, Commissioner of Indian Affairs, U.S Representative | ||
| Lieutenant Colonel Stephen F. Hale | ||
| Lieutenant General Wade Hampton III, cavalry leader and later governor of South Carolina | ||
| Congress of the Confederate States Representative John Hemphill, U.S Senator | ||
| Captain Francis A. Hendry, local politician | ||
| General Robert Hoke | ||
| Lieutenant General John Bell Hood, commander of Hood's Texas Brigade | ||
| Benjamin G. Humphreys, Confederate brigadier general and Governor of Mississippi | ||
| Lieutenant General Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson | ||
| Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederacy | ||
| Herschel V. Johnson, member of the Confederate Senate, U.S vice-presidential candidate in the 1860 United States presidential election, U.S. Senator and Governor of Georgia | ||
| Colonel Middleton Tate Johnson Sr. | ||
| Mifflin Kenedy, known for successfully transporting cotton and other goods for the Confederacy along the Rio Grande river to avoid the Union blockade and allow exports from the Confederacy to Europe | ||
| Colonel Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar, U.S Representative, U.S Senator, United States Secretary of the Interior and Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States | ||
| Georgia | ||
| Confederate soldier Sidney Lanier, poet, musician and academic often known as the "poet of the Confederacy" | ||
| Confederate soldier and guerilla leader Joseph C. Lea, considered the "father of Roswell" | ||
| General Robert E. Lee | ||
| David Levy Yulee, U.S Representative and U.S Senator who resigned to support the Confederacy, Confederate congressman (according to some sources) and notably arrested and imprisoned at Fort Pulaski for treason after aiding the 1865 escape of Confederate President Jefferson Davis | ||
| Oliver Loving, known for being prevented from returning by the Union to Texas, before he successfully escaped and was commissioned by the Confederate States Army to produce beef and drive cattle along the Mississippi River; the Confederate Government later owed him between $100,000 and $250,000 | ||
| Colonel Thomas Saltus Lubbock | ||
| Samuel Augustus Maverick, Confederate diplomat (negotiating the peaceful surrender of Union-aligned federal garrisons from Texas) and one of three commissioners appointed by the Texas Secession Convention | ||
| Lieutenant Colonel James B. McCreary, U.S Representative, U.S Senator and Governor of Kentucky | ||
| Brigadier General Benjamin McCulloch | ||
| Colonel William Beck Ochiltree, 18th Texas Infantry, a prominent figure in the Republic of Texas | ||
| William Simpson Oldham Sr., pioneer Texas lawyer and Confederate Senator | ||
| Confederate Soldier Isaac Parker, Texas state representative and Texas state senator | ||
| Samuel Pasco, Confederate soldier and later U.S. Senator | ||
| Brigadier General Horace Randal | ||
| Colonel George R. Reeves | ||
| John Henninger Reagan, postmaster general of the Confederacy | ||
| Colonel Oran Milo Roberts, president of the Texas secession convention, Chief Justice of the Texas Supreme Court and Governor of Texas | ||
| Colonel Roger Q. Mills, U.S Representative and U.S. Senator | ||
| Confederate Soldier Clement Vann Rogers of the First Regiment of Cherokee Mounted Rifles, Cherokee judge, member of the Cherokee Senate and delegate to the Oklahoma Constitutional Convention | ||
| Captain Gustav Schleicher, U.S Representative | ||
| General William Read Scurry | ||
| James Harper Starr, director of the postal service of the Trans-Mississippi Department | ||
| Alexander Stephens, vice president of the Confederacy | ||
| Colonel John Marshall Stone, Governor of Mississippi | ||
| Lieutenant General Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson | ||
| Colonel John S. Sutton | ||
| Brigadier General Alexander Watkins Terrell, Terrell's Texas Cavalry Regiment | ||
| Captain Nelson Tift of the Confederate States Navy, U.S Representative and founder of Albany, Georgia | ||
| Colonel Benjamin Franklin Terry, Terry's Texas Rangers | ||
| Brigadier General Thomas Green | ||
| General Robert Toombs, Secretary of State of the Confederacy | ||
| Captain Henry G. Turner, associate justice of the Supreme Court of Georgia and U.S Representative | ||
| John Tyler, President of the United States, Confederate congressman, also noted for presiding over the Virginia Secession Convention and signing the Virginia Ordinance of Secession | ||
| Generals John C. and William F. Upton | ||
| Colonel Zebulon Baird Vance, twice governor of North Carolina | ||
| Edward Leonard Waller, delegate for Austin County at the Secession Convention, in the convention Waller supported Texas joining the Confederacy, and co-signed (as the only living signer of the Texas Deceleration of Independence) the Texas Ordinance of Secession, also approving the "Constitution of the Confederate States of America", Mayor of Austin | ||
| Georgia | Named for Joseph Wheeler, Confederate cavalry general, later joined the U.S. Army, serving in the Spanish–American War and Philippine–American War | |
| Colonel Clinton McKamy Winkler | ||
| Colonel John A. Winston and Governor of Alabama | ||
| General Henry A. Wise and Governor of Virginia | ||
| Virginia | ||
| Confederate Soldier William E. Woodruff, the first Treasurer of Arkansas and founder of the state's first newspaper the Arkansas Gazette | ||
| Colonel William Cooke Young, 11th Texas Cavalry Regiment | ||