Civil War Leaders
Learn more about the Union and Confederate leaders who defined the Civil War era.
Frederick Steele
Frederick Steele was born in Delhi, New York on January 14, 1819 and graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point in 1843. He...
Winfield Scott
VIDEO | Historian Gary Gallagher describes the great, yet often overlooked, General Winfield Scott and the impacts his strategies ultimately had upon...
In the Bloody Cornfield, Pvt. Howard Left Behind a Widow and Three Children
Remembering that each symbol on the newly discovered Elliott Burial Map represents a lost American life at the Battle of Antietam, we enlisted our...
Thomas Paine
VIDEO | Jim Percoco of the American Battlefield Trust sheds light on one of the overlooked figures of the American Revolution, Thomas Paine. Paine was...
Gideon J. Pillow
Biography of Civil War Confederate General Gideon Johnson Pillow
John Buford
VIDEO | Wayne Motts of the National Civil War Museum details the life and service of Union Brigadier General John Buford.
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