Civil War Leaders
Learn more about the Union and Confederate leaders who defined the Civil War era.
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...
President Lincoln to A.G. Hodges
A letter from President Lincoln to three prominent Kentucky men defending the Emancipation Proclamation.
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...
Alexander M. McCook
Alexander McDowell McCook was the highest ranking officer of the “Fighting McCooks”, fourteen members of one family who all participated in the Civil...
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