Biographies of Notable Civil War Figures
Updated August 5, 2020 |
Infoplease Staff
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- Robert Anderson, Union general
- Lewis Addison Armistead, Confederate general
- Joseph Bailey, Union army officer
- Nathaniel Prentiss Banks, Union gerneral
- Clara Barton, nurse
- Judah Philip Benjamin, Confederate official
- Belle Boyd , Confederate spy
- Pierre Beauregard, Confederate general
- Braxton Bragg, Confederate general
- John Brown , abolitionist
- Simon Bolivar Buckner, Confederate general
- Don Carlos Buell, Union gerneral
- Ambrose Everett Burnside, Union gerneral
- Joshua L. Chamberlain, Union general
- Patrick R. Cleburne, Confederate general
- Jabez L. M. Curry, member of the Confederate Congress
- George Custer , Union general
- Jefferson Davis, president of the Confederacy
- Jubal Anderson Early, Confederate general
- Richard Stoddert Ewell, Confederate general
- Nathan Bedford Forrest, Confederate general
- Richard Stoddert Ewell, Confederate general
- Ambrose Powell Hill, Confederate general
- Joseph Hooker, Union general
- John Charles Fremont, Union general
- John Brown Gordon, Confederate general
- Ulysses S. Grant, commander of the Union army
- John White Geary, Union general
- Henry Wager Halleck, Union general
- Winfield Scott Hancock, Union general
- William Joseph Hardee, Confederate general
- Ambrose Powell Hill, Confederate general
- Benjamin Harvey Hill , Confederate senator
- Daniel Harvey Hill, Confederate general
- John Bell Hood, Confederate general
- Joseph Hooker, Union general
- Stonewall Jackson , Confederate general
- Albert S. Johnston, Confederate general
- Joseph Eggleston Johnston, Confederate general
- Philip Kearny, Union general
- Robert E. Lee , general in chief of the Confederate
- Abraham Lincoln, 16th president of the U.S.
- James Longstreet, Confederate general
- Thaddeus Sobieski Lowe, chief of army aeronautics
- George McClellan, Union general
- George Gordon Meade, Union general
- Irvin McDowell, Union general
- Thomas Francis Meagher, Union general
- John Hunt Morgan, Confederate general
- Oliver P. Morton, political leader during the Civil War
- John Singleton Mosby, Confederate leader
- John Clifford Pemberton, Confederate general
- George Edward Pickett, Confederate general
- John Pope, Union general
- Fitz-John Porter, Union general
- John F. Reynolds, Union general
- William Starke Rosecrans, Union general
- Winfield Scott, Union general
- Raphael Semmes, commander in the Confederate navy
- Philip Henry Sheridan, Union general
- William Tecumseh Sherman, Union general
- Joseph Orville Shelby, Confederate cavalry commander
- Daniel Edgar Sickles, Union general
- Robert Gould Shaw, commander of the first regiment of black troops
- John Slidell, Confederate commissioner to France
- Edmund Kirby Smith, Confederate general
- Alexander Hamilton Stephens, Confederate vice president
- Thaddeus Stevens, Congressman
- James Ewell Brown Stuart, Confederate cavalry commander
- George Henry Thomas, Union general
- Sojourner Truth, abolitionist and volunteer during the Civil War
- Harriet Tubman, abolitionist and spy for the Union
- Clement Larid Vallandigham, leader of the Copperheads
- Mary Edwards Walker, Union nurse and surgeon
- Lew Wallace, Union officer and author
- Stand Watie, Confederate general
- Joseph Wheeler, Confederate general
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