CIVIL WAR BIOGRAPHIES

Biography reveals what made generals great or weak, inspired armies to fight, and motivated statesmen and leaders. The links below take you to articles on the politicians, generals, and heroes who led the Union and Confederacy. Union Biographies (military) Armstrong, Samuel Banks, Nathaniel P. Burnside, Ambrose Everett Buell, Don Carlos Butler, Benjamin Franklin Cox, Jacob Dolson Farragut, David Glasgow Grant, Ulysses S. Hancock, Winfield Scott Hooker, Joseph Howard, Oliver O. Hunter, David Logan, John Alexander Meade, George Gordon Meagher, Thomas Francis McClellan, George Brinton McPherson, James B. Pope, John Porter, David Dixon Porter, Fitz-John Rosecrans, William Starke Sherman, William Tecumseh Sheridan, Philip H. Sickles, Daniel Edgar Smalls, Robert Thomas, George Henry Worden, John Lorimer Union Biographies (political) Adams, Charles Francis Bigelow, John Davis, Henry Winter Johnson, Andrew Lincoln, Abraham Seward, William Henry Stanton, Edwin McMasters Vallandigham, Clement Laird Wade, Benjamin F. Welles, Gideon Wood, Fernando Confederate Biographies (military) Anderson, Richard Heron Beauregard, P.G.T. Bragg, Braxton Early, Jubal Anderson Gordon, John B. Gorgas, Josiah Hampton, Wade Hardee, William Joseph Hill, Ambrose Powell Hood, John Bell Jackson, Thomas Jonathan, or Stonewall Jackson Johnston, Albert Sidney Johnston, Joseph Eggleston Kirby-Smith, E. Lee, Robert E. Longstreet, James Mahone, William Morgan, John Hunt Mosby, John Singleton Pemberton, John Clifford Pickett, George Edward Polk, Leonidas Quantrill, William C. Semmes, Raphael Stuart, Jeb Wheeler, Joseph Watie, Stand Confederate Biographies (political) Benjamin, Judah Philip Davis, Jefferson Mason, James Murray Memminger, Christopher Gustavus Slidell, John Stephens, Alexander Hamilton Toombs, Robert Augustus Yancey, William Lowndes