Civil War Leaders
Learn more about the Union and Confederate leaders who defined the Civil War era.
Lincoln's Voice
Perhaps the single most critical voice of the secession crisis belonged to President-elect Abraham Lincoln, whose victory at the polls in November...
Joseph B. Kershaw
Confederate General Joseph Brevard Kershaw commanded a brigade in Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia for the duration of the war. Born in Camden, South...
Robert H. Milroy
Robert Huston Milroy was born in Washington County, Indiana, in 1816, the same year the state entered the Union. His father, Maj. Gen. Samuel Milroy...
W.H.F. “Rooney” Lee
Born at Arlington in 1837, William Henry Fitzhugh Lee was the second son of Robert E. Lee and Mary Anna Randolph Custis. His pedigree included “Light...
Frederick Douglass
National Park Service Ranger Mark Malloy of the Frederick Douglass National Historic Site answers questions about the life of America's premiere black...
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