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Brigadier General John Buford will always be remembered for his successful delaying action on the first day of the Battle of Gettysburg. But he and his cavalry division of Major General Alfred Pleasonton’s cavalry...
On May 8th, 1864, shortly after the Overland Campaign began, Major General Phillip Sheridan, the Army of the Potomac’s Cavalry Corps commander, took the 10,000 men of his three divisions on a raid...
May 1864 in the Civil War With all planning and preparations complete, the much anticipated spring campaigns under the overall command of Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant began in early May. Grant’s plan called...
Name Meaning James is of Hebrew origin and means “he who supplants”. Vital Stats Birthday: February 6th, 1833 Birth Name: James Ewell Brown Stuart Birthplace: Patrick County, Virginia Date of Death: May 12th, 1864 Cause: ...
June 1862 in the Civil War The month began with the conclusion of the two day Battle of Seven Pines near Richmond, Virginia on June 1st. Confederate forces attacked Union lines that had been...
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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
