Civil War Leaders
Learn more about the Union and Confederate leaders who defined the Civil War era.
Military Rank & Insignia
VIDEO | Kristopher White of the American Battlefield Trust details the rank of soldiers in the Union and Confederate Armies during the Civil War, and...
William W. Averell
William Woods Averell graduated in the lower third of the United States Military Academy in 1855. He was made a second lieutenant in the United States...
Lincoln on Re-election
In the summer of 1864, as Abraham Lincoln became increasingly convinced that he would not be re-elected, he wrote the following letter and asked his...
John Pegram
John Pegram was born in Petersburg, Virginia on January 24, 1832. His father was an attorney, militia brigadier general and bank president in Richmond...
Thomas Wentworth Higginson
Thomas Wentworth Higginson entered his military career fairly late in life. By the time the Civil War began, however, Higginson had been advocating...
Alexander M. McCook
Alexander McDowell McCook was the highest ranking officer of the “Fighting McCooks”, fourteen members of one family who all participated in the Civil...
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