Well, it varied. The longer you were a front-line Confederate general the bigger the chance of death, wounds, or illness. Every one of of the 8 men who were Lee's Corps commanders from 1862-1865 were either WIA or KIA,
Wounded In Action:
-Longstreet - out for six months (lost feeling in one hand)
-Ewell - twice, leg amputated below the knee
-Early
-Anderson
-Hampton - five times
Killed in Action:
-AP Hill - April 1865
-Stuart - May 1864
-Jackson - May 1863
Lee survived the war unharmed. But Joe Johnston and Hood - both commanders of the "other Confederate Army" were both wounded, Hood losing both a leg and an arm.
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Or Robert Blake.
Or William Shatner.
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