Civil War Info and Resources
Name Meaning Edwin is of Old English origin and means “wealthy guard” Vital Stats Birthday: December 19, 1814 Birth Name: Edwin McMasters Stanton Birthplace: Steubenville, Ohio Date of Death: December 24th, 1869 Cause: Respiratory...
March 1863 in the Civil War As the winter of 1863 drew to a close, most of the significant action in the month of March occurred in Mississippi and Louisiana as Federal forces continued...
Name Meaning Ambrose is of Greek origin meaning “immortal” Vital Stats Birthday: November 9th, 1825 Birth Name: Ambrose Powell Hill, Jr. Birthplace: Culpeper, VA Date of Death: April 2nd, 1865 Cause: Killed in action...
February 1863 in the Civil War After a very active December and January, the armies took time out in February 1863 to reorganize and rest before resuming active campaigning in the spring. Land action...
March 4th, 1865 was rainy and wet in Washington D.C. It was also Inauguration Day for Abraham Lincoln’s second term as President of the United States. After nearly four long years of Civil War,...
Name Meaning Winfield is of Old English origin and means “friend’s field”. Vital Stats Birthday: February 14th, 1824 Birth Name: Winfield Scott Hancock Birthplace: Montgomery Square, Pennsylvania Date of Death: February 9th, 1886 Cause: ...
In of June 1864 the Union Army of the Potomac had pushed the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia back to the Richmond and Petersburg area after the extremely costly Overland Campaign. As the Federals...
January 1863 in the Civil War The Emancipation Proclamation, released in preliminary form a few days after the Battle of Antietam, was issued in its final form by President Abraham Lincoln on New Year’s...
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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
