Civil War Info and Resources
The 12th New Hampshire Infantry was formed in the summer of 1862 and entered Federal service in September of that year. The regiment was under the command Colonel Joseph Potter, a West Point graduate...
The U.S. Navy announced on February 12th, 2013 that the remains of two sailors found in the turret of the Civil War ironclad USS Monitor will be buried in Arlington National Cemetery on March...
After the city of Atlanta fell to Union forces on September 2nd, 1864, Major General William T. Sherman made the extraordinary decision to remove the remaining civilian population from the city. In his memoirs,...
In the spring and early summer of 1863, the Union Army began its final, and ultimately successful, campaigns to secure control of the entire Mississippi River. Only two Confederate strongholds remained on the river,...
February 1863 in the Civil War After a very active December and January, the armies took time out in February 1863 to reorganize and rest before resuming active campaigning in the spring. Land action...
The U.S. Postal Service has announced the designs for its 2013 Civil War commemorative stamps. During the 2011-2015 Civil War Sesquicentennial, the Post Office is issuing two stamps each year commemorating significant events in...
The Union Navy’s USS Hatteras was in the news 150 years after it was sunk in the Gulf of Mexico by the CSS Alabama on January 11th, 1863. A scientific expedition consisting of researchers...
March 4th, 1865 was rainy and wet in Washington D.C. It was also Inauguration Day for Abraham Lincoln’s second term as President of the United States. After nearly four long years of Civil War,...
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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