Levin Major Lewis (January 6, 1832 – May 28, 1886) was a Confederate States Army colonel during the American Civil War.

At the outbreak of the Civil War, he organized a company of the pro-Confederate Missouri State Guard and was elected captain.

After the end of the regiment's term, he was briefly an aide-de-camp for Major General Earl Van Dorn and then was elected a captain of the Confederate 7th Missouri Infantry.

Lewis was assigned to duty on May 16, 1865, by General E. Kirby Smith so that he could command an infantry brigade with the appropriate rank, although the war was effectively ended and the promotion could not be made through a legal appointment by Jefferson Davis or confirmation by the Confederate Senate.

[2][3] His parents were John Kendall and Mary (Jones) Lewis, a family of wealthy planters in Dorchester County, Maryland.

[2] Lewis attended school in Washington, D.C., in 1843, and then at the Maryland Military Academy and at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut.

[2][3] A member of the class of 1852, Lewis left Wesleyan in his sophomore year to study law.

[5] Levin Major Lewis was an early organizer and captain of a company in the pro-Confederate Missouri State Guard.

[2] On July 4, 1863, Lewis led his regiment in the unsuccessful Confederate attack on the Union Army garrison at the Battle of Helena, Arkansas, where he was wounded and captured.

[2] Lewis was assigned to duty as a brigadier general on May 16, 1865, by General E. Kirby Smith so that he could command an infantry brigade with the appropriate rank, although the war was effectively ended by the surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia a month earlier and the capture of Jefferson Davis by Union troops in Georgia six days earlier.