Civil War Leaders
Learn more about the Union and Confederate leaders who defined the Civil War era.
John C. Pemberton
Biography of Civil War Confederate General John Clifford Pemberton
John Buford
John Buford, Jr. was born into a prominent family on March 4, 1826 in Woodford County, Kentucky, but moved with his family to Rock Island, Illinois at...
Union Leaders of the Civil War
VIDEO | Historian Jared Frederick discusses the generals who commanded Union forces during the war, and President Lincoln's struggle to find the right...
George Thomas
Although only twice in chief command of a field army during battle — Mill Springs, Kentucky, near the war’s beginning, and Nashville, Tennessee, near...
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