William Tecumseh Sherman (February 8, 1820 - February 14, 1891) was an American soldier, businessman, educator and author. He served as a General in the Union Army during the American Civil War (1861-65), for which he received...

This site explores Black America's quest for equality from the early national period through the twentieth century. Content includes the work of abolitionists in the first half of the nineteenth century, depictions of the long journey...

Elmer Ephraim Ellsworth (April 11, 1837 - May 24, 1861) was a lawyer and soldier, best known as the first conspicuous casualty of the American Civil War.

(1835-1905) Soldier in the Civil War for the Confederates. Governor of Virginia.

Ambrose Everett Burnside (1824 - 1881) was an American soldier, railroad executive, inventor, industrialist, and politician from Rhode Island, serving as governor and a U.S. Senator. Burnside was a Union Army general in the Civil War and...

(1825-1875) American soldier serving in the Civil War as a Confederate

Henry Whitney Bellows was an American clergyman, and the planner and president of the United States Sanitary Commission, the leading soldiers' aid society, during the American Civil War.

He was an American politician and soldier, served as Governor of Massachusetts, Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives and as a Union general during the American Civil War.

A soldier born in Wesminster, Mass., Aug. 8, 1839; died May 24, 1908. He studied in his native town and Boston, and at the beginning of the Civil War was commissioned first lieutenant of the 22d Massachusetts volunteers.

American Soldier during Civil War

Stephen Van Rensselaer III (November 1, 1765 - January 26, 1839) was Lieutenant Governor of New York as well as a statesman, soldier, and land-owner, the heir to one of the greatest estates in the New York region at the time. He was the...

(1824-1863) Union soldier during the American Civil war

(1824-1863) Union soldier during the American Civil War

(1822-1885) An American soldier, eighteenth President of the United States and was the leading Union general in the American Civil War.

(1829-1890) Soldier that commanded Union troops during the Civil War.

(1844-1935) Explorer and soldier that volunteered in the Civil War and lead an expedition to the Artic.

(1813-1890) American explorer and soldier know as the Pathfinder who commanded Union forces in the Civil War

(1824-1863) Union soldier during the American Civil war

The next Emperor was Aurelius Probus, officer of the army of Germany. He was chosen by the legions, and recognized by the Senate, A certain Florianus, brother of Tacitus, had in the mean tie assumed the purple without recognition by...

John Armstrong was an American civil engineer and soldier who served as a major general in the Revolutionary War. He was a delegate to the Continental Congress for Pennsylvania.