Civil War Info and Resources
In January 1863, Major General John A. McClernand led a combined army-navy expedition up the Arkansas River to the Confederate garrison at Arkansas Post, or Fort Hindman. This fort, located 25 miles upriver from...
The 1st Minnesota Infantry was organized at Fort Snelling in April of 1861 and mustered in on the 29th of the month. The regiment went into action at the first Battle of Bull Run...
Major General Ambrose Burnside’s plan for the capture of Fredericksburg, Virginia in November 1862 depended on the timely arrival of pontoon bridge building materials so that his army could cross the Rappahannock River into...
The 1st Maine Heavy Artillery was formed in August 1862 as an infantry regiment, the 18th Maine Volunteer Infantry. The commanding officer was Colonel Daniel Chaplin, formerly an officer in the 2nd Maine Infantry. The...
On November 24th, 1863, Major General Ulysses S. Grant’s Union forces attacked Lookout Mountain at Chattanooga, Tennessee, driving out General Braxton Bragg’s Confederates and capturing the mountain. The next day, Federals attacked Missionary Ridge...
On May 1st, 1862, Major General Benjamin F. Butler took over as military governor of The recently captured city of New Orleans. From that day forward until he was replaced by Major General Nathaniel...
After losing the Battle of Chickamauga on September 19th and 20th, 1863, the Union Army of the Cumberland retreated to Chattanooga, Tennessee. General Braxton Bragg’s Confederates occupied the high ground on Lookout Mountain...
Major General Joseph Hooker’s 1st Corps was the first Union Army Corps to engage Confederate forces at the Battle of Antietam on September 17th, 1862. One of Hooker’s brigades consisted of the 2nd, 5th,...
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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