Civil War Leaders
Learn more about the Union and Confederate leaders who defined the Civil War era.
John Newton
“One of the most widely known engineers of the country” according to The Independent. John Newton is usually remembered for two particular events in...
Julia and Ulysses S. Grant House
Julia and Ulysses S. Grant lived in this house between 1849 and 1850 after being married. Grant, who was an army officer at the time, would go on to...
George Wythe Randolph
The youngest child, George Wythe Randolph, was born to parents Thomas Mann Randolph Jr. and Martha Jefferson Randolph on March 10, 1818, at Monticello...
Frederick, Maryland, in the Civil War
Frederick, a crossroads of the Civil War, surrounded by battlefields and historic sites, remains one of the best places to explore America’s wartime...
Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum
Springfield, Illinois | The site supports the educational and cultural programming through documentary materials relating to Lincoln and his era.
Wilder’s Lightning Brigade: Winter 1862 – Winter 1863
In December 1862, Colonel John T. Wilder ’s brigade of Brig. Gen. J. J. Reynolds ’ infantry division of the Army of the Cumberland – the 17 th, 72 nd...
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