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His career is remembered by most historians as a series of continuous calamities and blunders; often resulting in disaster.

Maria Isabella "Belle" Boyd was one of the Confederacy's most notorious spies.

Diarist Mary Boykin Chesnut is noted for her posthumously published Civil War diary. She was the wife of James Chesnut, a Brigadier General in the...

Robert Smalls, born into slavery in Beaufort, South Carolina, did something unimaginable: In the midst of the Civil War, he commandeered a heavily...

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...