Civil War Info and Resources
At the outset of the Civil War, Maryland was one of four border states with legal slavery located between the seceding Confederate states and the remaining Union states. While none of these border states...
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...
Beginning in June of 1861 when he was appointed colonel of the 14th Indiana Infantry, Nathan Kimball served as a commander of Union troops from the regimental through division levels throughout the length of...
North Carolina native John Gibbon was a West Point graduate and career U.S. Army officer who remained loyal to the Union even while three of his brothers joined the Confederate army. He would hold...
In the summer of 1864, as the Union Army of the Potomac and the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia were engaged in the battles of the Overland Campaign followed by the Siege of Petersburg,...
On September 4th, 1862, General Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia began crossing the Potomac River into Maryland. Since taking command of the Confederate Army in early June, Lee had successfully driven the...
The 19th Indiana Infantry, along with the 2nd, 6th, and 7th Wisconsin Infantry regiments, formed the 4th Brigade of Major General Joseph Hooker’s 1st Corps in the Army of the Potomac at the Battle...
The 15th Massachusetts Infantry was mustered into service on July 5th, 1861 and first saw significant action in the Battle of Ball’s Bluff in October of that year. The regiment was assigned to the...
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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
