Civil War Leaders
Learn more about the Union and Confederate leaders who defined the Civil War era.
Emerson Opdycke
Emerson Opdycke was one of those individuals who abandoned civilian life to fight for their beliefs and discovered a talent for the army. In the...
Frederick, Maryland, in the Civil War
Frederick, a crossroads of the Civil War, surrounded by battlefields and historic sites, remains one of the best places to explore America’s wartime...
Lincoln, the Great Emancipator
Lithograph of Lincoln as the Great Emancipator.
Investment of Petersburg by General Grant
HISTORICAL MAP | Map of General Grant’s investment in Petersburg, 1865
Reuben Lindsay Walker
Reuben Lindsay Walker was born May 29, 1827 in Logan Virginia. Graduating from Virginia Military Institute in 1845, Walker worked as an engineer and...
Francis J. Herron
The Civil War saw many common men elevated to the status of hero, and Francis Jay Herron was one of these men. Herron would rise from his position of...
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