Constructed in 1738, Stratford was the boyhood home of Declaration of Independence signers Richard Henry and Francis Lightfoot Lee, and it was the birthplace of Robert E. Lee.

Stonewall Jackson Resources. Biography, FAQ, papers, images, and other information from the VMI Archives.

Ohio native who led one of the most successful Civil War campaigns, William Tecumseh Sherman chased rebels from North Georgia to Savannah.

Official Website for The Friends of Pond Spring and the General Joe Wheeler Home) New Additions and Information (March 2002) Located near Courtland, Alabama, Pond Spring (The Wheeler Plantation) was home to Joseph Wheeler, former Major General of Cavalry of the great Confederate western army, The Army of Tennessee (and briefly held the rank of Lieutenant General near War's end), also a long-time ...

Arlington House, The Robert E. Lee Memorial in George Washington Memorial Parkway Located in Arlington, VA TRAVEL BASICS - CAMPING - LODGING ACTIVITIES - FACILITIES - FEES/PERMITS Arlington House photo by Steve Pittleman IN BRIEF The house that Robert E. Lee called home for 30 years and one uniquely associated with the Washington and Custis families is preserved today as a memorial to General ...

The McClellan Society's celebration of the Civil War's greatest commander.

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

The Stonewall Jackson House at 8 East Washington Street in Lexington, Virginia is the only home that the famous Confederate General Thomas Jonathan Stonewall Jackson ever owned. Jackson and his wife, Mary Anna Morrison, lived in the house while he taught at the Virginia Military Institute before the Civil War. The house, a Registered National Landmark, is owned and operated by the Stonewall ...

Tell me when this page is updated Gen. Robert E. Lee 1807-1870 Farewell Address to the Army of Northern Virginia He Lost a War but Won Immortality Biography of Gen. Robert E. Lee Books about Gen. Robert E. Lee Return to The Confederate Network ...

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.

Guide to live music in Nashville, TN, including upcoming events at the Ryman and the Grand Ole Opry. ...

Information about Jubal A. Early Preservation Trust, Inc.

Home Index By Subject By Year Biographies The Gift Shop William Tecumseh Sherman (1820 - 1891) One of Americas greatest army officers was born February 8, 1820 at Lancaster, Ohio, and graduated from the U.S. Military Academy in 1840. Army lieutenants Edward Otho Cresap Ord and William T. Sherman arrived at Monterey January 28, 1847, two days before Yerba Buena was renamed San Francisco. He ...

USA-project, biographies-area, biographical data regarding Robert E. Lee (1807-1872) ...

Hero of the War with Mexico, Bragg's brilliant advance to Kentucky was followed by retreat to Chickamauga and his siege of Chattanooga.

Robert Edward Lee (1807-1870) With all my devotion to the Union and the feeling of loyalty and duty of an American citizen, I have not been able to make up my mind to raise my hand against my relatives, my children, my home. I have therefore resigned my commission in the Army, and save in defense of my native State, with the sincere hope that my poor services may never be needed, I hope I may ...

Considered by many to be the best tactical officer on either side, Cleburne defeated numerically superior forces on a number of occasions.

Information on the Stonewall Jackson Shrine where the general died on May 10, 1863.

TOM CHAMBERLAIN: MY BRAVE YOUNG BROTHER by Rosemary Pardoe Photograph of Tom Chamberlain reproduced courtesy of the Maine State Archives Introduction The original, five thousand word, version of Tom Chamberlain: 'My Brave Young Brother' appeared in the April 1997 issue (no. 53) of Crossfire, the Journal of the American Civil War Round Table (UK). This latest expansion (January 17, 2002) is ...

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

From his narrow escape at Fort Donelson to his destruction of Union forces at Brice's Crossroads, this enlisted man turned general the most feared man in the Confederate Army in the Western Theater ...

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George Brinton McClellan (1826-1885) A brilliant engineer and highly capable organizer, George B. McClellan just wasn't an army commander. In that position he proved the weakness of West Point in its early years; the academy was simply geared to the production of engineers and company officers for a small, pre-Civil War regular army. The Philadelphia native had entered the academy from the ...

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Ambrose Everett Burnside (1824-1881) If there is any mitigating circumstance in the failure of Ambrose E.Burnside as commander of the Army of the Potomac it is that he had twice previously refused the post, recognizing his own inexperience, and only accepted at the urging of others who said he had to obey the assignment order. An Indiana native and West Pointer (1847), he served six years in the ...

William Tecumseh Sherman (1820-1891) He never commanded in a major Union victory and his military career had repeated ups and downs, but William T. Sherman is the second best known of Northern commanders. His father had died when he was nine years old, and Sherman was raised by Senator Thomas Ewing and eventually married into the family. Through the influence of his patron, he obtained an ...

Joseph Hooker (1814-1879) One of the most immodest and immoral of the high Union commanders, Fighting Joe Hooker frequently felt slighted by his superiors and requested to be relieved of duty. The Massachusetts native and West Pointer (1837) had been posted to the artillery but was serving as a staff officer when he won three brevets in Mexico. Unfortunately for his later career he testified ...

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Patrick Ronayne Cleburne (1828-1864) The most popular Confederate division commander was the Stonewall of the West -Patrick R. Cleburne. Appropriately, the native of County Cork was born on St. Patrick's Day and became the only product of the Emerald Isle to become a Confederate major general. Failing the language requirements for a druggist's degree, he served with the British 4lst Regiment of ...

Jubal Anderson Early (1816-1894) Always an irascible officer, Jubal A. Early suffered overwhelming defeats in the Shenandoah Valley and went on after the conflict to wage a literary war with a fellow Confederate corps commander. A West Pointer (1837) from Virginia, Early had served one year in the artillery, and later in the Mexican War as a major of volunteers, before taking up law. Also ...

Braxton Bragg: Misplaced General by Dr. Grady McWhiney 1996 The Cincinnati Civil War Round Table As the Confederacy was dying, A Georgia girl wrote in her diary: Generals Bragg and Breckinridge are in the village with a host of minor celebrities. General Breckinridge is called the handsomest man in the Confederate army, and Bragg might be called the ugliest. He looks like an old porcupine.

Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain (1828-1914) A Bowdoin College professor, Joshua L. Chamberlain went to the Maine state capital to offer his services in 1862. Offered the colonelcy of a regiment, he declined, according to John J. Pullen in The 20th Maine, preferring to start a little lower and learn the business first. He was made lieutenant colonel of the regiment on August 8. His later ...

A LIVING HISTORY PRESENTATION FEATURING STEPHEN CASSLE AS STONEWALL JACKSON WITH FEATURES ON JACKSON'S MILL, LIVING HISTORY IMAGES, EVENT LISTINGS ...

The Boyhood Home Of Robert E. Lee In Alexandria, VA., a description and a virtual tour.

About the Rock of Chickamauga and of a lot of other battles as well.

Confederate General Stonewall Jackson behaved so oddly that some doubted his sanity. Yet, as you will see in this biography, Jackson was one of the most respected of Southern commanders.

Joseph Wheeler 1836-1906 Soldier His exploits as a Confederate Cavalry leader led to his promotion to Lieutenant General at the age of twenty-eight. He served as a Major General in the Spanish-American War and later as Brigadier General in the U.S. Army. Joseph Wheeler was the only Confederate general to attain the same rank later in the United States Army. Three decades after he commanded ...

A recollection of General 'Stonewall' Jackson of American Civil War fame, by his brother-in-law, Gen. Daniel H. Hill.

Robert E. Lee: Born into a famous Virginia family on January 19, 1807, Robert E. Lee served his state with great devotion all his life. His family lived at Stratford and later Alexandria, Virginia. At the United States Military Academy he distinguished himself in both scholastics and martial exercises. He was adjutant of the corps and graduated second in the class of 1829. As a career officer, ...

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 ...

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A brief biography of Confederate General Lewis Armistead, who prepared his troops for Pickett s Charge. ...

A brief biography of General Ambrose E. Burnside, Civil War officer. ...

A biographical sketch of Major General Ambrose Burnside and his participation in the American Civil War ...

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In Leesburg, Virginia, on September the 3rd, 1862, from a window in a big brick house on King Street, three little girls looked out. An ambulance stopped by a granite stepping stone and a soldierly figure with both wrists in splints, walked up the long box bordered brick path, and was welcomed.

A biographical sketch of Major General George McClellan and his participation in the American Civil War ...

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