Civil War Leaders
Learn more about the Union and Confederate leaders who defined the Civil War era.
George S. James
Not unlike the American Revolution’s “shot heard ’round the world” on Lexington Green, the first fire aimed at Fort Sumter took the Civil War past the...
James Gilpatrick Blunt
While the life of James Gilpatrick Blunt began in the Northeast, it was in the West that he would achieve his fame as a Union commander. Blunt was...
Edward “Allegheny” Johnson
American Battlefield Trust's biography of Confederate Civil War general, Edward "Allegheny" Johnson
William Henry French
William Henry French, a career military man, was born January 13, 1815, in Baltimore, Maryland. He graduated from the United States Military Academy...
Lincoln's Last Days
Garry Adelman travels to Washington, D.C. and Gettysburg, Pennsylvania to find objects and stories associated with President Abraham Lincoln's last...
Alfred T. A. Torbert
Alfred Thomas Archimedes Torbert began his military career after graduating ranked 21 out of 34 from the United States Military Academy in 1855. He...
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