Lieutenant General Peter Stewart, C.S.A., (1821-1908)- Born in Rogersville, Tennessee, on October 2, 1821, Alexander Stewart would become one of only seventeen officers to hold the rank of lieutenant general in the confederate army.  A graduate of West Point in 1842, he resigned from the U. S. Army shortly thereafter to teach.  When war came, he helped organize and train troops and then served as an artillery officer at Belmont, Missouri.  Promoted to brigadier general in November 1861, Stewart commanded an infantry brigade in the Army of Tennessee and fought well in all the army’s battles.  He was promoted to major general in June 1863 and to lieutenant general a year later when he took over command of General Leonidas Polk’s corp’s one month after Polk’s death.  He led this corps to the end of the war, surrendering with General Joseph Johnston’s troops at Greensboro, North Carolina, in May 1865.  From 1870 to 1874, Stewart made his living as a businessman in St. Louis, but returned to his calling as an educator in 1875 when he was elected chancellor of the University of Mississippi.  Stewart died in Biloxi, Mississippi, on August 30, 1908, and was returned for burial to St. Louis, where his son was an active businessman.     (Block 48, Lot, 2922)

Alphonso Chase Stewart, (1848-1916)— The son of future Confederate general A. P. Stewart, Alphonso Stewart was born in Lebanon, Tennessee, on August 27, 1848.  In 1863, though only fifteen years old, Stewart enlisted in the 4^th Tennessee Cavalry, C.S.A.  He was in action at the battle of Saltsville, Virginia, but shortly afterward he was transferred to his father’s staff, where he served for the rest of the war.  In 1867, Stewart graduated from Cumberland University (Tennessee) with a law degree and was admitted to the bar at the age of nineteen.  He practiced law in Tennessee and Mississippi till 1872 when he, his wife, and their son moved to ST. Louis.  In 1873 he joined former circuit judge and Missouri congressman Andrew King and former Union Cavalry officer John W. Phillips in partnership as “King, Phillips and Stewart,” the ancestor law firm of the modern Bryan, Cave, Stewart was active in the city’s business, social, and religious circles until his death in 1916.     (Block 48, Lot, 2922)