Civil War Info and Resources
Although there was less active campaigning in the winter in the Civil War, the war was ongoing and there was no Christmas or holiday break. U.S. forces battled guerillas and other irregular fighters constantly...
After U.S. forces under Major General Joseph Hooker captured Lookout Mountain at Chattanooga, Tennessee on November 24th, 1863, General Braxton Bragg’s Confederates withdrew and set up defensive positions on Missionary Ridge. Hooker’s troops were...
After the Battle of Savage’s Station on June 29th, 1862, the Union Army of the Potomac continued its withdrawal towards Harrison’s Landing on the James River. The Confederate Army of Northern Virginia under its...
There were many more smaller engagements in the Civil War than major battles, and that was especially true in certain states like Missouri. In the middle of May 1862, the 1st Wisconsin Cavalry was...
The 5th Wisconsin Infantry began serving in the Union cause in July 1861, almost at the very beginning of the Civil War. The regiment had seen action in most of the campaigns and battles...
On May 24th, 1864, approximately 2500 Confederate cavalry men under Major General Fitzhugh Lee attacked the U.S. base at Wilson’s Wharf, about 20 miles down the James River from Richmond, Virginia. This position on...
On December 31st, 1862, the Union Army of the Cumberland under Major General William Rosecrans clashed with the Confederate Army of Tennessee, commanded by General Braxton Bragg, along the Stones River near Murfreesboro, Tennessee....
In late November 1864, Lieutenant General John Bell Hood’s Confederate Army of Tennessee marched north from Florence, Alabama into Tennessee. While Major General William T. Sherman was making his march from Atlanta to Savannah,...
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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
