Civil War Info and Resources
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...
On September 14th, 1862, Brigadier General John Gibbon’s 4th Brigade of the 1st Division of the 1st Corps, Army of the Potomac advanced up the National Road through Turner’s Gap, one of the passes...
The Lincoln Penny commemorating the U.S. Semiquincentennial will only be offered as collector’s item and will not circulate. Since the 100th anniversary of Civil War president Abraham Lincoln’s birth in 1909, the 16th President’s...
Although there was less active campaigning in the winter in the Civil War, the war was ongoing and there was no Christmas or holiday break. U.S. forces battled guerillas and other irregular fighters constantly...
A variety of large caliber cannon were used in the Civil War, most notably in places like the masonry forts on the coasts and in siege operations. These were too big and heavy to...
After U.S. forces under Major General Joseph Hooker captured Lookout Mountain at Chattanooga, Tennessee on November 24th, 1863, General Braxton Bragg’s Confederates withdrew and set up defensive positions on Missionary Ridge. Hooker’s troops were...
“All quiet along the Potomac,” they say, “Except now and then a stray picket Is shot, as he walks on his beat to and fro, By a rifleman hid in the thicket. ‘T is...
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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
