Civil War Leaders
Learn more about the Union and Confederate leaders who defined the Civil War era.
Richard H. Anderson
Confederate General Richard Heron Anderson was part of Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia and participated in every one of its major battles. Anderson...
Chancellorsville: Lee and Jackson's Final Meeting
Historian Bob Krick discusses the decision made by Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson to conduct a bold flank attack upon the Union army at...
Augustine Prévost
Prévost was a Swiss born British Army officer. During the Seven Years War, Prévost was commissioned as a major in the 60th (Royal American) Regiment...
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...
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...
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