Samuel Gibbs French: a Northern-Born Confederate General
In a recent post, we talked about Parmenas T. Turnley, a Southerner who served the Union in the Civil War and a graduate of West Point’s famous class of 1846. He wrote a memoir...
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In a recent post, we talked about Parmenas T. Turnley, a Southerner who served the Union in the Civil War and a graduate of West Point’s famous class of 1846. He wrote a memoir...
Parmenas Taylor Turnley was a graduate of the West Point Class of 1846, many of whom fought in the Mexican War but would later serve on opposite sides in the American Civil War. About...
Frank A. Haskell was born July 13th, 1828 in Tunbridge, Vermont. In the fall of 1848, Haskell left New England for the Midwest, and joined his brother Harrison in Columbus, Wisconsin. Harrison was a...
Famous Legal Arguments is a book by Moses Field, published in 1897. It includes the legal argument of future Attorney General, Edwin M. Stanton, who was practicing law in 1859, when N.Y. Congressman Daniel...
Ambrose Bierce was born in Ohio on June 24th, 1842. He was the 10th of 13 children of Marcus Aurelius Bierce and his wife Laura. The family moved to Warsaw, Indiana in 1848. By...
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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
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