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George Thomas “Tige” Anderson was born in Covington, Georgia on February 3rd, 1824. As a young man, Anderson attended Emory University in Oxford...

Thomas Francis Meagher was born on August 3, 1823, in Waterford, Ireland. At eleven years old, Meagher’s family sent him to study with Jesuits at...

“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...

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

The man who perhaps did the most to promote Maryland’s involvement in the Confederate cause, despite the state remaining in the Union, Bradley Tyler...

A less famous college professor from Maine who would become a Civil War general, Eliakim Parker Scammon was born on December 27, 1816, in Whitefield...

The “Father of West Virginia” was born near Morgantown, in Monongalia County, Virginia (present-day West Virginia). He was descended from the man who...

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...