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Born on October 6, 1842, Samuel Davis grew up on his family’s farm near Smyna, Tennessee, about twenty miles southeast of Nashville. When he was...

George Washinton Morgan was born to a prominent Pennsylvania family on September 20, 1820. At 16, he dropped out of college to join a militia unit...

Maria Dolores “Lola” Sánchez was one of the most unsuspecting Confederate spies of the Civil War. Born in the mid 1844, Lola spent her days tending to...

John Lawrence Burns was born in Burlington, New Jersey, on September 5, 1793. He is said to have begun his military service after he enlisted in the U...

Civil War Trust Biography of Union General John F. Reynolds

This is the American Battlefield Trust's biography of Congressman Thaddeus Stevens

This is a biography of Civil War Confederate General P. G. T. Beauregard

James Ronald Chalmers was born in 1831 in Halifax County, Virginia, to an upper-class family. In the 1830s, Chalmers moved with his family to...

Biography of Civil War Confederate General John Bell Hood

Biography of Civil War Union General John McAllister Schofield

The first endeavor of Sterling Price into public service was in Missouri, where he served first in the Missouri House of Representatives and then the...

Biography of Civil War Major General Edward Otho Cresap Ord