Poetry: Sherman’s March to the Sea
“Sherman’s March to the Sea” is a poem written in 1864 by Samuel Hawkins Marshall Byers III, 5th Iowa Volunteer Infantry. Byers wrote it while a prisoner in Colombia, S.C. The poem was set...
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“Sherman’s March to the Sea” is a poem written in 1864 by Samuel Hawkins Marshall Byers III, 5th Iowa Volunteer Infantry. Byers wrote it while a prisoner in Colombia, S.C. The poem was set...
November 1864 in the Civil War With the major campaigns bogged down in the mid summer of 1864, it appeared that Abraham Lincoln’s chances at being reelected President of the United States were slim...
Ohio native and future 19th President of the United States Rutherford B. Hayes was a 38 year old Cincinnati lawyer when he was appointed major of the 23rd Ohio Infantry in June of 1861....
Name Meaning Nathan is of Hebrew origin meaning “God has given”. Vital Stats Birthday: July 13th, 1821 Birth Name: Nathan Bedford Forrest Birthplace: Chapel Hill, Tennessee Date of Death: October 29th, 1877 Cause: Complications...
October 1864 in the Civil War While the Army of Northern Virginia and the Army of the Potomac remained deadlocked around Petersburg and Richmond, there was a great deal of action in other places...
The 7th Wisconsin Infantry was formed in the late summer of 1861 and sent east, where it was brigaded with the 2nd and 6th Wisconsin Infantry regiments, plus the 19th Indiana Infantry. This brigade...
Gideon Welles served as Secretary of the Navy from 1861-1869, which at that time was a cabinet level office. Welles had a real insider’s look at the operations of the Lincoln Administration and the...
Like the rest of the country, the Native American population was divided as which to side to support in the Civil War. This division extended to individual tribes, with the Cherokees being perhaps 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