People of the Civil War

Union and Confederate Generals by Kurz & Allison.

Union and Confederate Generals by Kurz & Allison

We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain, that this nation under God shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth.
— Abraham Lincoln, November 19, 1863, The Gettysburg Address

 

William "Bloody Bill" Anderson

William “Bloody Bill” Anderson.

William “Bloody Bill” Anderson

Mary Bickerdyke – A Civil War Hero

John Wilkes Booth – Actor to Assassin

Braxton Bragg – Confederate General

Mary Bowser – Union Spy

A Boy Soldier in the Civil War

John Brown – Crusading Against Slavery

Combatants of the Civil War

George Armstrong Custer – Dying at the Little Bighorn

Jefferson Davis – President of the Confederate States of America

Deadlier Than the Male – Female Spies During the Civil War

Grenville M. Dodge

Grenville M. Dodge.

Grenville M. Dodge – Distinguished Officer

Indian Home Guard in Kansas

Jubal A. Early – Confederate General

Richard Stoddert Ewell – Confederate General

Nathan Bedford Forrest – Confederate General

Galvanized Yankees

Ulysses S. Grant – Civil War Hero and 18th President

General Grant and The Vicksburg Campaign

Nathanael Greene – Union General

The Guilty Deserter

General H.W. Halleck

General H.W. Halleck.

Henry W. Halleck – Union General

Thomas Jonathan “Stonewall” Jackson – Confederate General

Stonewall Jackson’s Arm

Albert Sidney Johnston – Confederate General

James Henry Lane, aka: “The Grim Chieftain,” Bloody Jim

Robert E. Lee – Celebrated General of the South

Abraham Lincoln – Standing As a Hero

George Brinton McClellan – Union General

Native Americans of the Civil War

Nelson Appleton Miles – Union General

John Clifford Pemberton – Confederate General

Colonel Sterling Price

Colonel Sterling Price.

Sterling “Old Pap” Price – Confederate General

William C. Quantrill – Renegade Leader of the Kansas-Missouri Border War

William S. “Old Rosy” Rosecrans – Union General

Philip Henry Sheridan – Hero and Tyrant

William Tecumseh Sherman – Union General

James Ewell Brown “J.E.B.” Stuart – Confederate General

Alfred Howe Terry – Union General

Harriet Tubman – Moses of the Underground Railroad

Earl Van Dorn – A Casualty of the Civil War

Elizabeth Van Lew – Union Spy

Stand Watie – Native American General

Sarah Rosetta Wakeman – Fighting in the War

Mary E. Walker – Brave Surgeon of the Civil War

…I had a vision… I saw white spirits and black spirits engaged in battle, and the sun was darkened – the thunder rolled in the Heavens, and blood flowed in streams – and I heard a voice saying, “. . . such you are called to see and let it come rough or smooth, you must surely bear it.”
Nat Turner, an enslaved man

 

Conquered Banner of the Confederacy

Conquered Banner of the Confederacy.

Also See:

African American History in the United States

The Civil War

Military People Photo Gallery

Soldiers & Officers in American History

Who’s Who in American History