Civil War Info and Resources
Major General Ulysses S. Grant’s final campaign to take Vicksburg, Mississippi began on April 30th, 1863, when the Union 13th Corps under Major General John McClernand, and one division of the 17th Corps were...
The U.S. Treasury Department made its much anticipated announcement April 20th, 2016, regarding the portrait of a woman on a denomination of U.S. currency. Originally, it was intended that Alexander Hamilton would be removed...
The 12th New Jersey Infantry was mustered into Federal service on September 4th, 1862. The regiment was assigned to the defenses of Baltimore, thereby missing the Battle of Antietam later in the month. The...
Name Meaning: Leonidas is of Greek origin and means “lion”. Vital Stats Birthday: April 10th, 1806 Birth Name: Leonidas Polk Birthplace: Raleigh, North Carolina Height: About 6 Feet Date of Death: June 14th, 1864...
Following the initial successful Confederate assault at the opening of the Battle of Shiloh on April 6th, 1862, Union forces set up a defensive position in a tree line along a farm road (popularly...
The U.S. Navy and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) announced on March 23rd, 2016 that the USS Conestoga, a Navy ocean going tugboat that disappeared at sea in 1921, had been located...
By late March of 1865, Union lines around the besieged city of Petersburg, Virginia had been extended to the point where only one intact supply line was left to supply the Confederate forces within....
The Civil War in the News March 2016 A roundup of a few Civil War related items in the news. Civil War Blockade Runner Shipwreck Believed Found Off NC Coast North Carolina authorities believe...
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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