Who is your favorite Civil War general, North or South?

John Hunt Morgan,‘Thunderbolt of the Confederacy’ and General of the Confederate Army. He fought mainly in Kentucky and is unknown outside of the state. But in Kentucky he is widely celebrated.
He'd capture union soldiers and release them. His thoughts were that if he or his men were ever captured, he'd hope for the same treatment.
http://www.civilwar.org/education/history/biographies/john-hunt-morgan -1.html

I really liked Buford in the movie. It is so sad that he ended up dying of pneumonia later that year and didn't live long enough to see the end of the war.

When the Story Lady tells us about the naughty boy who blew up his goldfish.

MG Bushrod Johnson, the Ohio Yankee who fought for the south.

Leonidas K. Polk. In the old Sid Meier's Gettysburg game, I was a member of the Army of Tennessee and took that name. He's my favorite, the minister-general. At Perryville, he found himself behind the Yankee lines while trying to order them to stop shooting. When he was questioned who he was and discovered his problem, he calmly to told the commander to stop firing and he trotted his horse away. The mistake came from the black overcoat Polk wore, being confused with a Blue-coated officer.

In terms of personal admiration, my username qualities. Though Daniel Sickles is undoubtedly the most interesting.

I'm afraid that you underestimate the number of subjects in which I take an interest!

Let me just mention the most unjustly maligned general officer in the history of the US Army: George Armstrong Custer.

The man served as a cavalry officer for nearly 15 years, almost continually in combat, and lost only one battle in his life, but that's the one he's remembered for. Very few people other than serious military historians remember him for what he accomplished in the Civil War, particularly during the Gettysburg Campaign. I was disappointed that Michael Shaara gave him no mention in The Killer Angels, especially since he was a major factor in Jeb Stuart's absence. The maligning of George Armstrong Custer is such that even the US Army Manual of Cavalry Operations when I was an Armor/Cavalry officer took cheap shots at him (and the current manual probably still does).

But Custer runs a close second as my favorite to his mentor, Phil Sheridan. Sheridan changed the doctrine for the US Cavalry by changing it from just a reconnaissance and screening force into a main offensive force, setting the stage for 20th and 21st Century Armored Force doctrine. This happened in May 1864 just prior to the Battle of Spotsylvania when he asked General Meade for permission to go on a raid toward Richmond, and Meade told him, "No, I need you to screen my Army and protect us from Jeb Stuart."

Sheridan went over Meade's head to Grant (who fortunately co-located his field HQ with Meade's Army of the Potomac) and told him, "I'll take care of Stuart for you! Let me raid Richmond and I'll draw him away from the main force and whip him." Grant then told Meade, "If Sheridan thinks he can whip Stuart, let's let him try it!"

Stuart was mortally wounded fighting Custer's brigade at the Battle of Yellow Tavern, the culmination of Sheridan's raid. (Yellow Tavern was on the outskirts of Richmond at the time and is today within its city limits.) It was the beginning of US Cavalry/Armor doctrine which was best summed by George S. Patton in World War II: "We are advancing constantly, and we're not interested in holding on to anything except the enemy. We're going to hold onto him by the nose, and we're going to kick him in the a$$!"

Sherman. Don't know how good a battlefield general he was, but as strategist he was remarkable. And what a writer.

2nd Choice would be George Thomas, a man still hasn't got the recognition he deserved.

Chamberlain, Hood, Pickett, Longstreet

Where's your male-driven, fact-based logic now, Jack?