Civil War Info and Resources
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...
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...
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...
Following the capture of Atlanta in September 1864, Major General William T. Sherman prepared for his next campaign. He proposed to march his army across Georgia from Atlanta to Savannah. He also proposed that...
In the first half of the 19th century, the United States built several masonry forts along the Atlantic and Gulf Coasts for the purpose of defending those coasts from invasion. One of these forts...
After mortally wounding President Abraham Lincoln at Ford’s Theater in Washington DC on April 14th, 1865, John Wilkes Booth escaped out of the city and into Maryland. Joining up with David Herold, another assassination...
About seventy miles west of Key West, Florida, are seven islands consisting of sand, coral, and little else. Named the Tortugas by Spanish Explorer Ponce de Leon due to the many sea turtles in...
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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