Civil War Leaders
Learn more about the Union and Confederate leaders who defined the Civil War era.
George Thomas "Tige" Anderson
George Thomas “Tige” Anderson was born in Covington, Georgia on February 3rd, 1824. As a young man, Anderson attended Emory University in Oxford...
Henry Rugeley
Colonel Henry Rugeley was a prominent South Carolina Tory who earned a commission in the British army after the siege of Charleston in 1780. While the...
James Jay Archer
James Jay Archer – like John Wilkes Booth a native of Bel Air, Maryland – was born December 19, 1817. A lawyer by trade, Archer accepted a captain’s...
James B. Ricketts
A native New Yorker, James B. Ricketts overcame a mediocre antebellum career and went on to become a key player in some of the Civil War’s most...
Jacob D. Cox
Though starting from humble beginnings and unable to afford an education, Jacob D. Cox became a major general for the Union Army, an abolitionist, an...
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...
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