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  • Robert Anderson, Union general Lewis Addison Armistead, Confederate general Joseph Bailey, Union army officer Nathaniel Prentiss Banks, Union gerneral Clara Barton, nurse Judah Philip Benjamin, Confederate official Belle Boyd , Confederate spy Pierre Beauregard, Confederate general Braxton Bragg, Confederate general John Brown , abolitionist Simon Bolivar Buckner, Confederate general Don Carlos Buell, Union gerneral Ambrose Everett Burnside, Union gerneral Joshua L. Chamberlain, Union general Patrick R. Cleburne, Confederate general Jabez L. M. Curry, member of the Confederate Congress George Custer , Union general Jefferson Davis, president of the Confederacy Jubal Anderson Early, Confederate general Richard Stoddert Ewell, Confederate general Nathan Bedford Forrest, Confederate general Richard Stoddert Ewell, Confederate general Ambrose Powell Hill, Confederate general Joseph Hooker, Union general John Charles Fremont, Union general John Brown Gordon, Confederate general Ulysses S. Grant, commander of the Union army John White Geary, Union general Henry Wager Halleck, Union general Winfield Scott Hancock, Union general William Joseph Hardee, Confederate general Ambrose Powell Hill, Confederate general Benjamin Harvey Hill , Confederate senator Daniel Harvey Hill, Confederate general John Bell Hood, Confederate general Joseph Hooker, Union general

  • Stonewall Jackson , Confederate general Albert S. Johnston, Confederate general Joseph Eggleston Johnston, Confederate general Philip Kearny, Union general Robert E. Lee , general in chief of the Confederate Abraham Lincoln, 16th president of the U.S. James Longstreet, Confederate general Thaddeus Sobieski Lowe, chief of army aeronautics George McClellan, Union general George Gordon Meade, Union general Irvin McDowell, Union general Thomas Francis Meagher, Union general John Hunt Morgan, Confederate general Oliver P. Morton, political leader during the Civil War John Singleton Mosby, Confederate leader

  • John Clifford Pemberton, Confederate general George Edward Pickett, Confederate general John Pope, Union general Fitz-John Porter, Union general John F. Reynolds, Union general William Starke Rosecrans, Union general Winfield Scott, Union general Raphael Semmes, commander in the Confederate navy Philip Henry Sheridan, Union general William Tecumseh Sherman, Union general Joseph Orville Shelby, Confederate cavalry commander Daniel Edgar Sickles, Union general Robert Gould Shaw, commander of the first regiment of black troops John Slidell, Confederate commissioner to France Edmund Kirby Smith, Confederate general Alexander Hamilton Stephens, Confederate vice president Thaddeus Stevens, Congressman James Ewell Brown Stuart, Confederate cavalry commander

  • George Henry Thomas, Union general Sojourner Truth, abolitionist and volunteer during the Civil War Harriet Tubman, abolitionist and spy for the Union Clement Larid Vallandigham, leader of the Copperheads Mary Edwards Walker, Union nurse and surgeon Lew Wallace, Union officer and author Stand Watie, Confederate general Joseph Wheeler, Confederate general

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