Civil War Leaders
Learn more about the Union and Confederate leaders who defined the Civil War era.
Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln, the 16th President of the United States, is known for leading the nation during the Civil War, enacting the Emancipation Proclamation...
Robert E. Lee
Robert Edward Lee (January 19, 1807 – October 12, 1870) was an American and Confederate soldier, best known as a commander of the Confederate States...
Ulysses S. Grant
American Battlefield Trust's biography of Union Civil War General-in-Chief Ulysses S. Grant.
The First American President: Setting the Precedent
When George Washington was inaugurated as the first president of the United States of America, the parameters and power of the president were to be...
William T. Sherman
William Tecumseh Sherman, although not a career military commander before the war, would become one of "the most widely renowned of the Union’s...
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