Civil War Info and Resources
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...
In the summer of 1864, the Union Army settled into siege operations against Petersburg Virginia. Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant established his headquarters at City Point at the confluence of the James and Appomattox...
German born Peter J. Osterhaus had a long and distinguished career for the Union Army in the Civil War. Living in Missouri at the beginning of the war, Osterhaus joined the army in April...
Fort Marion in St. Augustine, Florida, was one of several masonry forts that were part of the coastal defenses of the United States. The Spanish, who controlled the area at the time, began building...
Gideon Welles served as Abraham Lincoln’s Secretary of the Navy, which was a cabinet level post at that time. Welles recorded his thoughts and observations on the Civil War and the inner workings of...
The Union Army and Navy captured significant portions of the North Carolina coastal regions in 1861 and 1862, and held onto much of it for the remainder of the Civil War. Federal forces launched...
On December 10th, 1864, the leading elements of Major General William T. Sherman’s army began to arrive at Savannah, Georgia, the final objective of his March to the Sea from Atlanta. Though Sherman had...
In late November 1863, Major General Ulysses S. Grant began operations to lift the siege of Chattanooga, Tennessee. The Union Army of the Cumberland under Major General William Rosecrans had retreated to Chattanooga following...
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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