Civil War Info and Resources
Located on 12 1/2 acres in the sprawling Oak Ridge Cemetery on the north side of Springfield, Illinois, the Abraham Lincoln Tomb is both the final resting place of, and an impressive memorial to,...
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,...
By late August 1864, President Abraham Lincoln’s chances for reelection in the November election looked bleak. The military campaigns that looked promising in the spring had bogged down. Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant’s Overland Campaign in...
October 1862 in the Civil War President Abraham Lincoln headed to the Antietam battlefield as October 1862 opened. He wanted to see the situation in person and to meet with General George McClellan about...
In the 24 years that he lived in Springfield, Illinois, Abraham Lincoln rose from obscurity to President of the United States. In Lincoln’s hometown today, the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum is one...
Lincoln, the film about the last four months of the 16th president’s life from director Steven Spielberg, is scheduled for limited release on November 9th, 2012, and will be in theaters nationwide on November...
September 1862 in the Civil War Confederate armies were on the move in Virginia and Kentucky as September 1862 began. Major General John Pope’s Union Army of Virginia was in the process of slowly...
Abraham Lincoln owned just one home in his life, a wooden house on the corner of Eighth and Jackson Streets in Springfield, Illinois. Lincoln lived in the home from 1844 until he departed for...
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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
