Civil War Info and Resources
Though it was not officially declared a Federal holiday until 1870, both sides in the Civil War celebrated Christmas. The war went on, of course, no matter what the calendar said. Overall, there was...
From the beginning of the Civil War, both sides recognized the importance of controlling the major rivers in the western theatre of operations. The Ohio, Mississippi, Tennessee, and Cumberland rivers, and others, were vital...
The history of St. Augustine, Florida goes a long way back in time. The city was founded by the Spanish in 1565 and is the oldest continuously inhabited town settled by Europeans in the...
In July of 1861, Lieutenant Colonel John R. Baylor led his Texas volunteers into New Mexico Territory establishing a Confederate presence there. With U.S. regular troops being sent east to the main theatre of...
In the fall of 1863, U.S. forces from Major General Ambrose Burnsides’ Army of the Ohio (portions of the 9th and 23rd Corps) occupied Knoxville, Tennessee. While Burnside was occupying and fortifying that city,...
After withdrawing Confederate forces from Atlanta early in September of 1864 (and the subsequent capture of the city by Major General William T. Sherman’s army), Lieutenant General John Bell Hood began operations against Sherman’s...
Date: March 13th and 14th, 1862 Location: Craven County, North Carolina, approximately five miles south of the city of New Bern. Approximate Troop Strength: Union 11,000 in three infantry brigades plus artillery units. Union...
The July 16th, 1863 assault on Fort Wagner on Morris Island, South Carolina, was one of the more famous actions of the Civil War involving African American troops. As depicted in the 1989 motion...
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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
