Civil War Leaders
Learn more about the Union and Confederate leaders who defined the Civil War era.
St. John R. Liddell
St. John Richardson Liddell did not receive extensive military training before the American Civil War, and attended the United States Military Academy...
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...
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...
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...
Thomas Ewing, Jr.
Thomas Ewing, Jr. was born in Lancaster, Ohio on August 7, 1829. He was the foster brother of William Tecumseh Sherman, and he became Sherman’s...
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...
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