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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...

Henry Andrew Wise was born on December 3, 1806, into a prominent landowning family. His father John was a major in the Virginia militia during the...

George Alexander Porterfield was born on November 24, 1822, into a family with a proud military history. His father served in the War of 1812, and his...

A man whose military career spanned more than four decades and three different flags, William Wing Loring was born in Wilmington, North Carolina, on...

Biography of Civil War Union General Philip Sheridan

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

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

General George Gordon Meade