Civil War Info and Resources
The battle between the USS Monitor and the CSS Virginia (a.k.a. Merrimack) was the most famous Naval action of the Civil War. They fought to a draw on March 9th, 1862 in the first...
After capturing Port Royal, South Carolina, in November 1861, Flag Officer Samuel Du Pont began planning operations to capture additional ports along the coast from Charleston, South Carolina to Cape Canaveral, Florida and close...
The Territory of Colorado was formed in February 1861, just as the nation was headed to Civil War. Although the citizens of Colorado generally favored the Union, there were also those who favored the...
On September 4th, 1862, General Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia began crossing the Potomac River into Maryland. Since taking command of the Confederate Army in early June, Lee had successfully driven the...
On May 11th, 1862, the Confederate Ironclad CSS Virginia (aka Merrimack) was blown up outside of Norfolk, Virginia to prevent it from falling into Union hands. Before it was scuttled, the cannons were removed...
William Hervey Lamme Wallace was born in Ohio in 1821, but spent most of his childhood in Illinois. Wallace became an attorney in 1846, but soon after volunteered for military service in the Mexican...
James A. Garfield was a Republican Ohio state senator at the onset of the Civil War, and helped organize the 42nd Ohio Infantry in the summer of 1861. In December, he was promoted to...
The 19th Massachusetts Infantry saw extensive fighting at the December 1862 Battle of Fredericksburg, Virginia. This regiment of seasoned veterans had entered Federal service in August 1861 and had fought at the Battle of...
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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
