Civil War Leaders
Learn more about the Union and Confederate leaders who defined the Civil War era.
Alfred H. Terry
Alfred Howe Terry did not receive any formal military training before the outbreak of the Civil War. He spent some time studying at Yale Law School...
Lincoln's Cottage and the Emancipation Proclamation
This article talks about how President Abraham Lincoln wrote the Emancipation Proclamation at his cottage retreat in Washington, DC.
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...
Benjamin Prentiss
Benjamin Mayberry Prentiss was born on November 23, 1819 in Belleville, Virginia. His family moved west to Hannibal, Missouri and later Quincy...
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...
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...
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