Civil War Info and Resources
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,...
Before he successfully captured Vicksburg, Mississippi in July 1863, Major General Ulysses S. Grant had made some attempts to capture that vital Mississippi River city that ended in failure. One of these was a...
At the beginning of 1861, the United States was inching towards Civil War. South Carolina had become the first state to secede from the Union in December 1860, and the U.S. garrison at Fort...
Anna Morris Holstein and her husband William H. Holstein were a well to do couple living in Pennsylvania when the Civil War began. As the war proceeded, the two felt they needed to make...
On May 22nd, 1861, Major General Benjamin Butler arrived at and assumed command of Fort Monroe (or as it was more commonly known at that time, Fortress Monroe), a strategically important U.S. fort guarding...
In November, 1864, Lieutenant General John B. Hood was advancing his Army of Tennessee northward from Georgia and Alabama into Tennessee. On the 21st of the month, in conjunction with this movement, Hood ordered...
As part of the 250th Anniversary (or Semiquincentennial) of the United States, the U.S. Mint will issue quarters with five commemorative designs over the course of 2026. These are circulating coins, reminiscent of the...
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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