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Civil War Leaders

Learn more about the Union and Confederate leaders who defined the Civil War era.

Braxton Bragg

His career is remembered by most historians as a series of continuous calamities and blunders; often resulting in disaster.

John Clem

When President Abraham Lincoln in May 1861 issued the call for volunteers to serve in the Union Army for a three-year term, one of those who tried to...