Fire-Eaters

United States Congressman and governor of Virginia (1806-1876)

United States politician and Confederate soldier (1824-1907)

Confederate Army general and 26th governor of Alabama (1818–1890)

American politician (1816–1874)

American senator (1810–1886)

American politician (1808-1864)

American politician (1821–1894)

American politician (1821-1907)

American politician and Confederate States Army general in the Civil War (1828–1868)

American politician (1800–1876)

Confederate Army general (1821-1863)

American politician (1805–1869)

American politician (1813-1880)

(1828-1919) Confederate Army general, judge

American politician (1798-1858)

United States Army officer (1837–1864)

Confederate States Army general (1814–1875)

American politician (1814-1863)

American politician (1807-1874)

Confederate Army general (1814–1862)

In American history, the Fire-Eaters were a loosely aligned group of radical pro-secession Democrats in the antebellum South who urged the separation of the slave states into a new nation, in which chattel slavery and a distinctive "Southern civilization" would be preserved. Some sought to revive American participation in the Atlantic slave trade, which had been illegal since 1808. After eleven southern states declared independence from the United States in 1861, several Fire-Eaters were outspoken critics of the new Confederate government during the American Civil War.

23rd governor of Mississippi (1813-1867)

American politician : 1813-1890

American politician (1822-1899)

American politician (1792-1874)

Virginia planter and slaveholder

American politician (1824-1864)