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People had been living peacefully in and around Gettysburg for more than 75 years before the Civil War brought mighty armies to the town and forever...

While born into slavery in Richmond, Virginia, on October 8, 1837, Powhatan Beaty and his family forged a path to freedom, settling in the free state...

John McCausland Jr. was born on September 13, 1836, in St. Louis, Missouri, to an Irish immigrant. When McCausland was left orphaned at the age of...

The seventh child of Edward and Sarah Reynolds, Joseph Jones was born in Flemingsburg, Kentucky, on January 4, 1822. He briefly attended Wabash...

John Echols was born in Lynchburg, Virginia, on March 20, 1823. Like many other future Confederate officers, he attended Virginia Military Institute...

Mildred Lewis Rutherford was born into a wealthy family in Athens, Georgia, on July 16, 1851. From an early age, she was shaped by pro-Southern and...

“Poor Gen. Tilghman – he was brave to a fault,” lamented Mississippi diarist Emilie McKinley, upon learning of the general’s death. The “brave to a...

Federico Fernández Cavada was born in Cienfuegos, Cuba on July 8, 1831 to Isidoro Fernández Cavada, a Spaniard, and Emily (Gatier) Cavada, a native of...

Yet another prominent Illinoian who played a role in the Civil War, John Alexander McClernand was born in Breckinridge County, Kentucky, before moving...

John Wayles Jefferson was the grandson of Thomas Jefferson, the man who penned “all men are created equal” and his slave Sally Hemings. However, he...

A lesser known but no less distinguished Union commander with the surname Grant, Lewis Addison was born in Winhall Hollow, Vermont, on January 17...

One of the few Confederate generals who hailed from Maryland, George Hume "Maryland" Steuart was born on August 24, 1828, in Baltimore. He was raised...