Civil War Info and Resources
On November 2nd, 1859, abolitionist John Brown was sentenced to be hanged for treason, murder, and fomenting insurrection for leading a small band of men in an attempt in October to seize the federal...
The Battle of Perryville, fought near the small town of Perryville, Kentucky, on October 8th, 1862, was the largest Civil War battle fought in the Bluegrass State. Though it is less well known than...
The 15th Massachusetts Infantry was mustered into service on July 5th, 1861 and first saw significant action in the Battle of Ball’s Bluff in October of that year. The regiment was assigned to the...
Both the Union and Confederate armies were plagued by desertions in the Civil War. One estimate on the Union side placed the number of deserters at over 200,000. Men deserted for various reasons; some...
Ambrose Burnside had a mixed record as a commander in the Civil War. As commander of the Union 9th Corps, he was successful in an early 1862 campaign that established a solid Union presence...
In August 10th, 1861, the second large scale battle of the Civil War was fought about 10 miles southwest of Springfield, Missouri. A Union army under Brigadier General Nathanial Lyon attacked a larger Confederate...
Mary Todd Lincoln was born in Lexington, Kentucky on December 13th, 1818, to Robert Smith Todd and Elizabeth Parker Todd. Robert was a prominent businessman who also was active in politics in Lexington. In...
On July 17th, 1864, Lieutenant General John Bell Hood replaced General Joseph E. Johnston as commanding officer of the Confederate Army of Tennessee after the latter failed to stop Union forces under Major General...
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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