Civil War Leaders

Learn more about the Union and Confederate leaders who defined the Civil War era.

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This is a biography of Civil War Confederate Lieutenant General Thomas Jonathan Jackson (Stonewall Jackson).

Abraham Lincoln was the President of the United States during the Civil War and one of the great figures in American history.

The American Battlefield Trust's biography of Union Civil War general and Medal of Honor winner, Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain

On October 3, 1863, President Lincoln issued a proclamation designating “the last Thursday of November next, as a day of Thanksgiving.” Lincoln’s...

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

Biography of Confederate Civil War General James Longstreet.

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