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The city of Plymouth, North Carolina is located about seven miles up the Roanoke River from its mouth at the eastern side of Albemarle Sound. Early on in the Civil War, the Union Army...
Lieutenant William B. Cushing, USN, was the 19th century equivalent of a modern day commando or special operations fighter. Although Cushing commanded ships in the Union Navy blockade of the Confederate coastline, he was...
October 1864 in the Civil War While the Army of Northern Virginia and the Army of the Potomac remained deadlocked around Petersburg and Richmond, there was a great deal of action in other places...
Lt. William B. Cushing, USN, made a name for himself in the Civil War by taking on tough, dangerous assignments that were adventures in themselves. These included such actions as his November 1862 raid...
November 1862 in the Civil War After a great deal of fighting throughout most of 1862, the two sides paused to regroup as the second November of the Civil War began. More than a month...
U.S. Navy officer William B. Cushing is perhaps best known for his daring October 1864 raid that destroyed the Confederate ironclad CSS Albemarle at Plymouth, North Carolina, but he had a number of additional...
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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
