Civil War Leaders
Learn more about the Union and Confederate leaders who defined the Civil War era.
Lincoln's Last Days
Garry Adelman travels to Washington, D.C. and Gettysburg, Pennsylvania to find objects and stories associated with President Abraham Lincoln's last...
William W. Averell
William Woods Averell graduated in the lower third of the United States Military Academy in 1855. He was made a second lieutenant in the United States...
Lincoln on Re-election
In the summer of 1864, as Abraham Lincoln became increasingly convinced that he would not be re-elected, he wrote the following letter and asked his...
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...
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...
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