Civil War Leaders
Learn more about the Union and Confederate leaders who defined the Civil War era.
Robert H. Milroy
Robert Huston Milroy was born in Washington County, Indiana, in 1816, the same year the state entered the Union. His father, Maj. Gen. Samuel Milroy...
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...
George S. James
Not unlike the American Revolution’s “shot heard ’round the world” on Lexington Green, the first fire aimed at Fort Sumter took the Civil War past the...
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...
Edward “Allegheny” Johnson
American Battlefield Trust's biography of Confederate Civil War general, Edward "Allegheny" Johnson
Alfred T. A. Torbert
Alfred Thomas Archimedes Torbert began his military career after graduating ranked 21 out of 34 from the United States Military Academy in 1855. He...
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