Civil War Info and Resources
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...
The Future President Was a Guest October 1st-3rd, 1859 In the late summer and fall of 1859, Abraham Lincoln was in demand as a speaker in what are today the U.S. midwestern states. The...
Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton was present in the room when President Abraham Lincoln died on April 15th, 1865, after he was shot by John Wilkes Booth at Ford’s Theater the night before....
Gideon Welles kept an extensive diary during his time in office as Secretary of the Navy under Abraham Lincoln and his successor, Andrew Johnson. At that time, the Secretary of the Navy was a...
By the middle of the summer of 1864, Union offensives in Virginia and Georgia had bogged down into near stalemates. It was an election year, and with the Civil War dragging on, President Abraham...
Abraham Lincoln lived six years in the village of New Salem, Illinois, prior to moving to Springfield and rising to national prominence. In 1829, two men, James Rutledge and John M. Camron, built a...
On April 19th, 1861, just six days after the surrender of Fort Sumter to Confederate forces, President Abraham Lincoln issued a proclamation declaring that the port cities of the Confederate states would be subject...
From the earliest days of the Civil War, Washington DC was a busy hub of military activity in addition to being the home of the Federal government. With the Confederacy and a hostile army...
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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
