Civil War Info and Resources
The Emancipation Proclamation, effective January 1st, 1863, declared that anyone held as a slave in the rebellious states of the Confederacy “are, and henceforward shall be free”. Enforcement of the proclamation was essentially impossible...
Name Meaning Sterling is of English origin and means “pure, high quality”. Vital Stats Birthday: September 14, 1809 Birth Name: Sterling Price Birthplace: Farmville, Virginia Date of Death: September 29, 1867 Cause: Cholera Place...
Name Meaning: James is of Hebrew origin and means “he who supplants”. Vital Stats: Birthday: November 19, 1831 Birth Name: James Abram Garfield Birthplace: Orange Township, modern day Moreland Hills, Ohio Height: 6’1″ Date...
While thousands of Civil War soldiers were killed in action or died from wounds, about 2/3 of the total deaths in the war were due to disease. Dysentery, diphtheria, malaria, yellow fever, and typhoid...
Between 1768 and 1771, planter and politician William Fitzhugh built a Georgian style mansion on Stafford Heights above the Rappahannock River across from Fredericksburg, Virginia. Fitzhugh named the home Chatham Manor, after William Pitt,...
Name Meaning: Richard is of Old German origin and means “powerful leader”. Vital Stats: Birthday: October 7th, 1821 Birth Name: Richard Herron Anderson Birthplace: Sumter County, South Carolina Date of Death: June 26th, 1879...
Name Meaning: John is of Hebrew origin and means “God is gracious”. Vital Stats: Birthday: March 4th, 1826 Birth Name: John Buford, Jr. Birthplace: Woodford County, Kentucky Date of Death: December 16th, 1863 Cause...
In June 1861, construction began on a large earthen fort on the south bank of the Ogeechee River south of Savannah, Georgia, as part of the defenses of that port city. Originally, this earthwork...
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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
