Civil War Leaders
Learn more about the Union and Confederate leaders who defined the Civil War era.
Andrew J. Smith
Andrew Jackson Smith graduated 36th in a class of 45 from the United States Military Academy in 1838. He was commissioned into the 1st Dragoons, and...
The Lincoln Statue, or Emancipation Memorial
Drawing of the Emancipation Memorial, unveiled 1876 in Washington D.C.
Joseph Finegan
Joseph Finegan, originally born in Ireland, arrived in Florida in his early twenties and established himself as a lawyer and farmer. He was involved...
Abner Monroe Perrin
In the frantic, bloody fighting at Spotsylvania Court House in 1864, Confederate Brig. Gen. Abner Perrin was said to have exclaimed, “I shall come out...
Lewis A. Grant
A lesser known but no less distinguished Union commander with the surname Grant, Lewis Addison was born in Winhall Hollow, Vermont, on January 17...
Ambrosio José Gonzales
From Cuban freedom fighter to artillery colonel in the Confederate Army, Ambrosio José Gonzales’s life was marked by revolutionary fervor and military...
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