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William Tecumseh Sherman, although not a career military commander before the war, would become one of "the most widely renowned of the Union’s...

American Battlefield Trust's biography of Union Civil War General-in-Chief Ulysses S. Grant.

Biography of Civil War Union General Joseph Hooker

Biography of Civil War Union General Philip Sheridan

Biography of George McClellan

General George Gordon Meade

On December 1, 1835, Micah Jenkins was born on Edisto Island in South Carolina. In 1854, he graduated from the South Carolina Military Academy, now...

Born in approximately 1840 on the upper part of Michigan’s Lower Peninsula to Franco-Ottawa merchant-fur trader Henry Graveraet and his Ojibwe wife...

Born on the Tonawanda Reservation in western New York in 1828, Hasanoanda was raised in the Seneca traditions but was educated at a Baptist mission...

Samuel Francis Du Pont was born on September 27, 1803, in Bayonne, New Jersey. One of seven children, Du Pont’s uncle was Eleuthere Irenee du Pont...

Edward Henry Hobson was born on July 11, 1825, in Greensburg, Kentucky. As a young man, Hobson helped with his father’s steamboat business. In 1846...

Dorothea Lynde Dix was born on April 4, 1802, in Hampden, Maine. As a young child, Dorothea moved to Worchester, Massachusetts, to live with her...