Union and Confederate Generals by Kurz & Allison
We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain, that this nation under God shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth.
— Abraham Lincoln, November 19, 1863, The Gettysburg Address
William “Bloody Bill” Anderson
William “Bloody Bill” Anderson
Mary Bickerdyke – A Civil War Hero
John Wilkes Booth – Actor to Assassin
Braxton Bragg – Confederate General
A Boy Soldier in the Civil War
John Brown – Crusading Against Slavery
George Armstrong Custer – Dying at the Little Bighorn
Jefferson Davis – President of the Confederate States of America
Deadlier Than the Male – Female Spies During the Civil War
Grenville M. Dodge
Grenville M. Dodge – Distinguished Officer
Jubal A. Early – Confederate General
Richard Stoddert Ewell – Confederate General
Nathan Bedford Forrest – Confederate General
Ulysses S. Grant – Civil War Hero and 18th President
General Grant and The Vicksburg Campaign
Nathanael Greene – Union General
General H.W. Halleck
Henry W. Halleck – Union General
Thomas Jonathan “Stonewall” Jackson – Confederate General
Albert Sidney Johnston – Confederate General
James Henry Lane, aka: “The Grim Chieftain,” Bloody Jim
Robert E. Lee – Celebrated General of the South
Abraham Lincoln – Standing As a Hero
George Brinton McClellan – Union General
Nelson Appleton Miles – Union General
John Clifford Pemberton – Confederate General
Colonel Sterling Price
Sterling “Old Pap” Price – Confederate General
William C. Quantrill – Renegade Leader of the Kansas-Missouri Border War
William S. “Old Rosy” Rosecrans – Union General
Philip Henry Sheridan – Hero and Tyrant
William Tecumseh Sherman – Union General
James Ewell Brown “J.E.B.” Stuart – Confederate General
Alfred Howe Terry – Union General
Harriet Tubman – Moses of the Underground Railroad
Earl Van Dorn – A Casualty of the Civil War
Stand Watie – Native American General
Sarah Rosetta Wakeman – Fighting in the War
Mary E. Walker – Brave Surgeon of the Civil War
Conquered Banner of the Confederacy.
. . . I had a vision . . . I saw white spirits and black spirits
engaged in battle, and the sun was darkened – the thunder rolled in the Heavens, and blood flowed in streams – and I heard a voice saying, “. . . such you are called to see and let it come rough or smooth, you must surely bear it.”
— Nat Turner, an enslaved man
Also See:
African American History in the United States