Civil War Leaders
Learn more about the Union and Confederate leaders who defined the Civil War era.
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...
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...
General Ulysses S. Grant's Coat
West Point Museum Curator Michael MacAfee describes one of the coats worn by General Grant.
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...
Robert C. Schenck
Robert Schenck graduated from Miami University in 1827, and briefly practiced law in Dayton, Ohio. He was elected to the United States Congress in...
Mary Todd Lincoln House
Lexington, Kentucky | First Lady Mary Todd Lincoln resided at this historic site between the ages of thirteen and twenty-one, and Abraham Lincoln was...
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