Civil War Leaders
Learn more about the Union and Confederate leaders who defined the Civil War era.
Abner Monroe Perrin
In the frantic, bloody fighting at Spotsylvania Court House in 1864, Confederate Brig. Gen. Abner Perrin was said to have exclaimed, “I shall come out...
George Wythe Randolph
The youngest child, George Wythe Randolph, was born to parents Thomas Mann Randolph Jr. and Martha Jefferson Randolph on March 10, 1818, at Monticello...
Nathan Kimball
Nathan Kimball received his initial education at DePauw University from 1839 to 1841. After graduating, he began to study medicine, and started what...
The Lincoln Statue, or Emancipation Memorial
Drawing of the Emancipation Memorial, unveiled 1876 in Washington D.C.
Andrew A. Humphreys
Andrew Atkinson Humphreys graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1831. After graduation, he participated in the Seminole Wars and spent...
Joseph Finegan
Joseph Finegan, originally born in Ireland, arrived in Florida in his early twenties and established himself as a lawyer and farmer. He was involved...
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