Civil War Info and Resources
After the Battle of Savage’s Station on June 29th, 1862, the Union Army of the Potomac continued its withdrawal towards Harrison’s Landing on the James River. The Confederate Army of Northern Virginia under its...
The 5th Wisconsin Infantry began serving in the Union cause in July 1861, almost at the very beginning of the Civil War. The regiment had seen action in most of the campaigns and battles...
On December 31st, 1862, the Union Army of the Cumberland under Major General William Rosecrans clashed with the Confederate Army of Tennessee, commanded by General Braxton Bragg, along the Stones River near Murfreesboro, Tennessee....
In late November 1864, Lieutenant General John Bell Hood’s Confederate Army of Tennessee marched north from Florence, Alabama into Tennessee. While Major General William T. Sherman was making his march from Atlanta to Savannah,...
The April 6-7, 1862 Battle of Shiloh in Tennessee was by far the costliest battle in terms of casualties up to that point in the year old Civil War. Each side suffered over 1700...
The Sunken Road, or Bloody Lane as it would be named post battle, was the scene of some of the most intense fighting at the Battle of Antietam, a battle that featured a great...
The 3rd Brigade of the 1st Division of the Fifth Army Corps, Army of the Potomac, under the command of Colonel Strong Vincent, is remembered for its role in defending Little Round Top at...
In March and April 1864, a combined U.S. Army and Navy expedition up the Red River of Louisiana had successfully advanced about 150 miles and was closing in on Shreveport. Confederate Major General Richard...
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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
