Civil War Leaders
Learn more about the Union and Confederate leaders who defined the Civil War era.
Ulysses S. Grant Birthplace State Memorial
Moscow, Ohio | Ulysses S. Grant, commander of the Union Army in the Civil War and eighteenth president of the United States, was born in this small...
Robert E. Lee and Ulysses S. Grant Artifacts at Appomattox
VIDEO | In this War Department™ episode, American Battlefield Trust Director of History and Education Garry Adelman visits the West Point Museum to...
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...
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...
President Lincoln to A.G. Hodges
A letter from President Lincoln to three prominent Kentucky men defending the Emancipation Proclamation.
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