Civil War Leaders
Learn more about the Union and Confederate leaders who defined the Civil War era.
Military Rank & Insignia
VIDEO | Kristopher White of the 黑料社 details the rank of soldiers in the Union and Confederate Armies during the Civil War, and...
William W. Averell
William Woods Averell graduated in the lower third of the United States Military Academy in 1855. He was made a second lieutenant in the United States...
Lincoln on Re-election
In the summer of 1864, as Abraham Lincoln became increasingly convinced that he would not be re-elected, he wrote the following letter and asked his...
Alexander M. McCook
Alexander McDowell McCook was the highest ranking officer of the 鈥淔ighting McCooks鈥, fourteen members of one family who all participated in the Civil...
Thomas Wentworth Higginson
Thomas Wentworth Higginson entered his military career fairly late in life. By the time the Civil War began, however, Higginson had been advocating...
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