Civil War Info and Resources
On June 16th, 1885, former President and Civil War general Ulysses S. Grant arrived at a cottage on Mount McGregor in the town of Moreau, outside of the resort town of Saratoga Springs, New...
The 86th New York Infantry was organized in late 1861 and saw extensive action in the campaigns in the East all the way through the Confederate surrender. This included fighting in the Battle of...
The Union Army 2nd Corps Artillery Brigade, under the command of Captain John G. Hazard, arrived at Gettysburg on July 2nd, 1863, the second day of battle. The brigade consisted of 28 guns in...
After the Union victory at the Battle of Five Forks on April 1st, 1865, Federal forces were in place to cut the South Side Railroad, the last railroad supply line into the besieged city...
One of the key elements of the Union battle plan at Fredericksburg Virginia in late 1862 was the timely arrival of pontoon bridge building material that would enable Federal forces to cross the Rappahannock...
On the morning of July 2nd, 1863, Colonel James C. Rice was in command of the 44th New York Infantry, which along with the 16th Michigan, 83rd Pennsylvania, and 20th Maine Infantry regiments, made...
There are over 1300 monuments, tablets, statues, and markers of all types at Vicksburg National Military Park (as well as some outside the park boundaries). These monuments mark positions of individual regiments, honor unit...
July 1863 in the Civil War The Union Armies chalked up significant victories as three major campaigns concluded in July 1863. These overshadowed several other smaller, but still significant events in this pivotal...
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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