Civil War Leaders
Learn more about the Union and Confederate leaders who defined the Civil War era.
David McMurtrie Gregg
David McMurtrie Gregg was born on April 10, 1833, in Huntingdon, Pennsylvania into a politically active family. He earned an appointment to the United...
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...
Robert F. Hoke
Biography of Civil War Confederate General Robert Frederick Hoke
Robert Rodes
Born in Lynchburg, Virginia, Robert Emmett Rodes was destined to become a soldier. After following in the footsteps of his father and grandfather, who...
Gettysburg: Chamberlain's 1889 Address
At the 1889 dedication of the 20th Maine Monument on Little Round Top, Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain delivered what remains among the best descriptions...
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...
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