Civil War Leaders
Learn more about the Union and Confederate leaders who defined the Civil War era.
Alfred H. Terry
Alfred Howe Terry did not receive any formal military training before the outbreak of the Civil War. He spent some time studying at Yale Law School...
Lincoln's Last Days
Garry Adelman travels to Washington, D.C. and Gettysburg, Pennsylvania to find objects and stories associated with President Abraham Lincoln's last...
Robert E. Lee and Ulysses S. Grant Artifacts at Appomattox
VIDEO | In this War Department™ episode, American Battlefield Trust Director of History and Education Garry Adelman visits the West Point Museum to...
James Gilpatrick Blunt
While the life of James Gilpatrick Blunt began in the Northeast, it was in the West that he would achieve his fame as a Union commander. Blunt was...
William Henry French
William Henry French, a career military man, was born January 13, 1815, in Baltimore, Maryland. He graduated from the United States Military Academy...
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