Civil War Info and Resources
Standing next to the Illinois Memorial in Vicksburg National Military Park is the Shirley House, a white frame structure that is the only surviving wartime structure within the park boundaries (though numerous antebellum buildings...
Name Meaning: John is of Hebrew origin and means “God is gracious”. Vital Stats Birthday: June 1st or 29th, 1831, depending on source. Birth Name: John Bell Hood Birthplace: Owingsville, Kentucky Date of Death:...
June 1865 and the Conclusion of the Civil War As the calendar turned to June 1865, the final shots had fired, the last of the Confederate forces were preparing to surrender, and the nation...
May 1865 in the Civil War As the nation continued mourn the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, the transition to peace was underway. With the surrenders of the Confederate forces of Robert E. Lee and...
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Name Meaning: David is of Hebrew origin and means “beloved” Vital Stats Birthday: July 5th, 1801 Birth Name: James Glasgow Farragut Birthplace: Campbell’s Station, Tennessee Date of Death: August 14th, 1870 Cause: Heart disease...
On the morning of April 17th, 1865, General William T. Sherman was boarding a train in Raleigh, North Carolina on his way to meet with General Joseph E. Johnston in Durham to discuss terms...
April 1865 in the Civil War After four years of fighting, the end was near as the calendar turned to the fifth April of the war. At Petersburg, Virginia, Ulysses S. Grant had begun...
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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