Civil War Biography Page. Detailed biographies of the major players in the American Civil War.

By Brian Hampton. Often maligned, General Longstreet ordered the attack that routed the Union line at Chickamauga ...

Research and study of Confederate Major General Edward Johnson ...

Controversy | Life & Career | Photographs | Events | | Suggested Reading | Links | F A Q | About | This Civil War Virtual Archives Ring site is owned by Brian Hampton Since 01.21.01 ...

Rose O'Neal Greenhow Papers An On-line Archival Collection Special Collections Library, Duke University Images and Transcripts from the Collection About Rose O'Neal Greenhow About the collection at Duke Read items from the collection More information about the Special Collections Library and related collections Statement on use and reproduction About the digitized version of this collection ...

US Civil War Generals Introduction and acknowledgment This is a concise index to the Generals who fought on both sides of the US Civil War, and has been specifically prepared for the Internet. It is not meant to replace the several excellent biographies and encyclopedias which have been published in print form, and which contain much more information than is intended for this index. The ...

John Bell Hood was a brilliant tactician who reached his nadir when promoted to command of the Army of the Tennessee.

National Gallery of Art, Washington -- Augustust Saint-Gaudens' Memorial to Robert Gould Shaw and the Massachusetts Fifty-fourth Regiment ...

By Confederate Lieutenant-General James Longstreet. This on-line edition of the General's memoirs is presented on-line by The War Time Journal.

The Story of One Union Soldier Private Bernard McKnight - Massachusetts 3rd Cavalry 1838 - 1864 Early Life Coming to America Civilian to Soldier Action on the Mississippi Capture at Port Hudson Andersonville Prison Epilogue Documents / References Bernard was an Irish immigrant who came to America in the late 1850s. He brought his wife and young child with him and settled in Taunton, ...

The Longstreet Society (click on photo to enter site) ...

PEOPLE A-C D-H I-R Kearney, Denis Lane, James H. Lee, John D. Lewis, Meriwether Looking Glass Lovejoy, Julia Louisa Mark Twain Marshall, James Meek, Joseph Miles, Nelson A. Mulholland, William Norton, Joshua Polk, James K. Pope Quantrill, William Clarke Red Cloud Reno, Marcus Roosevelt, Theodore S-Z William Clarke Quantrill (1837-1865) Leader of perhaps the most savage fighting unit in the ...

A Brief Biography of John A. Logan John A. Logan, the man after whom John A. Logan College is named, was born February 9, 1826 in what is now Murphysboro, Illinois. Raised in a home that was a center of political activity, he came to love politics at an early age. In 1840 his father, Dr. John Logan, sent him to Shiloh Acadame at Shiloh Hill, Illinois to complete his education. Here Logan ...

Information on the life of General Lewis Addison Armistead and his son Walker Keith Armistead. Also included are links to other Civil War sites.

USA-project, biographies-area, biographical data regarding Edwin McMasters Stanton (1814-1869) ...

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Visitor Services DAVID GLASGOW FARRAGUT First Admiral of the Navy I soon became fond of this adventurous sort of life. A significant contributing factor to the Union success at Vicksburg was the skill of the North's naval commanders. One of the most colorful naval commanders of the Civil War was David Glasgow Farragut. Though he was unsuccessful in early naval operations against Vicksburg, ...

George A. Custer 1839-1876 The youngest general in the Union army. Later he commanded the 7th Cavalry and his entire detachment of over 200 men were killed by Native Americans in the Battle of Little Bighorn. ...

A detailed account of Gen. James Longstreet's famous scout. However, historians are still trying to piece together the mystery of Harrison and continue searching for clues as to his earlier life and his whereabouts after the Civil War. ...

Robert Gould Shaw (1837-1863) Son of a prominent Boston abolitionist family, Robert Shaw was serving as a captain in the 2nd Massachusetts when he was tapped by Massachusetts Governor John Andrew for a special assignment. Shaw was to raise and command the first regiment of black troops organized in a Northern state. All the previous 11 colored regiments had been raised principally from freed ...

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Civil War And the Western Frontier General H. B. Carrington Henry Beebee Carrington served as Colonel and Brigadier General in the Union Army. He is best known for his role in the Fetterman Massacre, and also for his zealous pursuit of northerners disloyal to the Union. The Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans Photographs of General Carrington With other ...

When he surrendered his twenty-six hundred man cavalry brigade on May 17, 1865 near Munford, Alabama, this individual, who had fought forty-two major battles and many minor skirmishes, became the last commander of a major unit to capitulate to Federal forces, thus ending the conflict in the states east of the Mississippi. He had privately stated prior to the war when visiting Washington and ...

Pvt. James Franklin Freeman and The 22nd Regiment N.C. Troops Second Corps, and later Third Corps Army of Northern Virginia Confederate States of America In all my readings of veterans, and of coolness under fire, I have never conceived of anything surpassing the coolness of our men in this fight. An unnamed officer in the 22nd NC describing the regiment's demeanor during Seven Pines. Part One ...

Hosea Orcutt Barnes, Massachusetts Civil War Soldier ...

The Civil War account of my great grandfather William Tate Crawford and his regiment, the 44th Regiment NC Troops.