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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...
On December 8th, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln issued his Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconciliation, a preliminary step for reconstruction of the South after the Civil War. One of the provisions of the proclamation allowed...
The December 1862 Battle of Fredericksburg, Virginia was one of the bloodiest of the Civil War, in large part due to wave after wave of Union assaults against the fortified Confederate positions on Marye’s...
In the summer of 1862, Confederate forces invaded Kentucky to capture the state and bring it into the Confederacy. A border state with slavery, Kentucky’s residents had loyalties on both sides in the war,...
By late June of 1864, Major General William T. Sherman’s campaign to capture Atlanta had been in progress for almost two months. Sherman and his opponent, General Joseph E. Johnston, had spent that time...
On May 2nd, 1863, Brigadier General Marcellus Crocker was assigned to temporary command of the 7th Division of Major General James B. McPherson’s 17th Corps, after the regular division commander, Brigadier General Isaac Quinby...
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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
