Civil War Info and Resources
The preservation of Civil War battlefields and sites of historic importance is an ongoing process that is certain to get a boost as we move through the Civil War sesquicentennial years. Here are some...
Located about a dozen miles southwest of Springfield, Missouri, Wilson’s Creek National Battlefield was established in 1960. The Battle of Wilson’s Creek was fought on August 10th, 1861 and was the second major battle...
The National Park Service (NPS) administers over 70 national battlefields, memorials, military parks, and historic sites related to the Civil War. Some are sites where major battles occued, such as Gettysburg National Military Park in...
The Wisconsin Historical Society has added a new section to its website called Wisconsin in the Civil War. The Historical Society Library and archives contain a great deal of material about Wisconsin’s involvement in...
The State of Ohio sent over 200 infantry, cavalry, and artillery regiments into action in the Civil War. Approximately 35,500 Ohioans who served in the war died of combat wounds or disease. Ohio was...
Mississippi was the second state to secede from the Union, doing so on January 9th, 1861. It was also the home state of Jefferson Davis, the president of the Confederacy. About 80,000 men from...
Sally Field has been cast as Mary Todd Lincoln in director Stephen Spielberg’s upcoming biographic film about Abraham Lincoln’s Civil War presidency. Daniel Day-Lewis will portray Lincoln in the film, which is based on...
The state of New York furnished almost 449,000 men for the Union Army and Navy in the Civil War, the most of any state. According to Frederick Dyer’s Compendium of the War of the...
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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
