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By late June of 1864, Major General William T. Sherman’s campaign to capture Atlanta had been in progress for almost two months. Sherman and his opponent, General Joseph E. Johnston, had spent that time...
The United States Mint has an ongoing Presidential Silver Medal Series that began in 2018. The series will cover all the presidents, even those considered to be not very good by historians. The next...
On May 2nd, 1863, Brigadier General Marcellus Crocker was assigned to temporary command of the 7th Division of Major General James B. McPherson’s 17th Corps, after the regular division commander, Brigadier General Isaac Quinby...
The July 1st, 1862 Battle of Malvern Hill was the final conflict in the Seven Days Battles at the end of the Peninsula Campaign. The Union Army had been driven back from near Richmond...
On the morning of July 1st, 1863, while Brigadier General John Buford’s cavalry was fighting its delaying action against advance elements of the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia on the northwestern outskirts of Gettysburg,...
The United States Mint introduced a Presidential Silver Medal series in 2018. These medals are one troy ounce of almost pure silver (99.9%); they are collector’s items of silver honoring U.S. presidents, not a...
Name Meaning Rutherford is of Old English origin and means “cattle crossing”. Vital Stats Birthday: October 4th, 1822 Birth Name: Rutherford Birchard Hayes Birthplace: Delaware, Ohio Date of Death: January 17th, 1893 Cause: Heart...
In late September 1864, Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant made plans for a pair of simultaneous assaults against Confederate positions both north and south of the James River near Richmond and Petersburg, Virginia. The...
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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
