Civil War Info and Resources
Since 2009, the United States Mint has issued $1 coins as part of its Native American $1 coin program, a successor to the 2000-2008 Sacagawea Golden Dollar program. The Sacagawea coins honored the Shoshone...
The popular game show Jeopardy often has questions about the Civil War. Occasionally, the show will have an entire category about the conflict. Such was the case on November 30th, 2021, when there was...
Irene Triplett, age 90, died in Wilkesboro, North Carolina on May 31st, 2020, bringing about the end of an era. She was the last person receiving a Civil War pension from the Department of...
As part of the ongoing America the Beautiful Quarters Program, the U.S. Mint will issue a quarter commemorating the Frederick Douglass National Historic Site in Washington DC. Frederick Douglass was born into slavery in...
Old Abe, the Bald Eagle mascot of the 8th Wisconsin Infantry in the Civil War, and the inspiration for the army’s 101st Airborne eagle insignia, has been confirmed by DNA testing to have been...
The Civil War in the News March 2016 A roundup of a few Civil War related items in the news. Civil War Blockade Runner Shipwreck Believed Found Off NC Coast North Carolina authorities believe...
“Mercy Street”, a six part drama set in Alexandria, Virginia during the Civil War, hits the airwaves with its premier episode on January 17th. The series focuses on a hospital in the Union occupied...
With all the excitement surrounding the release of the film “Star Wars–The Force Awakens”, The Washington Post had a little fun speculating on how Civil War documentarian Ken Burns would tell the story of...
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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
