Civil War Info and Resources
Pennsylvania native Powell Clayton was working as a civil engineer in Kansas when the Civil War began. Clayton began his military service in the spring of 1861 as a captain in the 1st Kansas...
The July 1st-3rd, 1863 Battle of Gettysburg resulted in approximately 56,000 casualties, including over 7,000 dead, in total for both armies. But despite the battle raging in and around the town that resulted in...
On June 16th, 1885, former President and Civil War general Ulysses S. Grant arrived at a cottage on Mount McGregor in the town of Moreau, outside of the resort town of Saratoga Springs, New...
The National Civil War Museum is a privately run, non profit 66,000 square foot history museum located at the top of a hill in Reservoir Park in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Founded in 2001, the museum...
In August 1862, Major General John Pope was in command of the newly formed Union Army of Virginia, located in the northern part of that state near Washington DC. The Army of the Potomac,...
The 86th New York Infantry was organized in late 1861 and saw extensive action in the campaigns in the East all the way through the Confederate surrender. This included fighting in the Battle of...
American poet Nicholas Vachel Lindsay (1879-1931) was born in Springfield, Illinois, in a home once owned by Clark M. Smith and his wife Ann, who was the younger sister of Abraham Lincoln’s wife Mary....
The 21st Wisconsin Infantry was part if the 1st Brigade of the 1st Division on the 14th Army Corps during General William T. Sherman’s May-September 1864 Atlanta Campaign. This brigade, under the command of...
The May 9th -21st, 1864, Battle of Spotsylvania Courthouse was the second battle of the Overland Campaign, and one of the bloodiest of the Civil War. The most intense fighting occurred on May 12th,...
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UNION
Abraham Lincoln
John Buford
Ambrose E. Burnside
Joshua L. Chamberlain
George A. Custer
David G. Farragut
James A. Garfield
Ulysses S. Grant
Winfield Scott Hancock
Rutherford B. Hayes
Nathaniel Lyon
George B. McClellan
James B. McPherson
George G. Meade
John F. Reynolds
John Sedgwick
Philip H. Sheridan
William T. Sherman
Edwin M. Stanton
George H. Thomas
CONFEDERACY
Jefferson Davis
Richard H. Anderson
Braxton Bragg
Patrick Cleburne
Nathan Bedford Forrest
A. P. Hill
John Bell Hood
Stonewall Jackson
Albert Sidney Johnston
Joseph E. Johnston
Robert E. Lee
James Longstreet
John S. Mosby
George E. Pickett
Leonidas Polk
Sterling Price
Edmund Kirby Smith
J.E.B. Stuart
Richard Taylor