Civil War Leaders
Learn more about the Union and Confederate leaders who defined the Civil War era.
Henry Hopkins Sibley
Before the outbreak of the Civil War, Henry Hopkins Sibley enjoyed a long and varied career with the United States Military. It began after he...
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...
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...
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
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