Civil War Leaders
Learn more about the Union and Confederate leaders who defined the Civil War era.
Benjamin Prentiss
Benjamin Mayberry Prentiss was born on November 23, 1819 in Belleville, Virginia. His family moved west to Hannibal, Missouri and later Quincy...
Edward “Allegheny” Johnson
American Battlefield Trust's biography of Confederate Civil War general, Edward "Allegheny" Johnson
Lincoln's Voice
Perhaps the single most critical voice of the secession crisis belonged to President-elect Abraham Lincoln, whose victory at the polls in November...
Frederick Steele
Frederick Steele was born in Delhi, New York on January 14, 1819 and graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point in 1843. He...
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...
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