List of people associated with the American Civil War

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Contents 1 Confederate States Army 2 Confederate States Civilians 3 Confederate States Navy 4 Confederate States Political Leaders 5 United States Army 6 United States Civilians 7 United States Navy 8 United States Political Leaders

Confederate States Army

• Beall, William N.R., (1825-1883), Brigadier General
• Beauregard, Pierre G.T., (1818-1893), general, commanded firing on Fort Sumter
• Borland, Solon, (1808-1864), Brigadier General
• Breckinridge, John C., (1821-1875), Major General
• Cabell, William L., (1827-1911), Brigadier General
• Churchill, Thomas J., (1824-1905), Major General
• Cleburne, Patrick R., (1828-1864), Major General
• Dockery, Thomas P., (1833-1898), Brigadier General
• Early, Jubal A., (1816-1894), general
• Fagan, James F., (1827-1893), Major General
• Forrest, Nathan B., (1821-1877), cavalry general
• Govan, Daniel C., (1829-1911), Brigadier General
• Hawthorn, Alexander T., (1825-1899), Brigadier General
• Hill, Ambrose P., (1825-1865), Lieutenant General
• Hindman, Thomas C., (1828-1868), Major General
• Jackson, Thomas J. "Stonewall", (1824-1863), Lieutenant General
• James, Jesse W., (1847-1882), guerilla fighter
• Johnston, Albert Sidney, (1803-1862), general, killed at Shiloh
• Lee, Robert E., (1807-1870), Commander of all Confederate armies
• Longstreet, James, (1821-1904), Lieutenant General
• McNair, Evander, (1820-1902), Brigadier General
• McRae, Dandridge, (1829-1899), Bridgadier General
• Pickett, George E., (1825-1876), Major General, commander of 'Pickett's Charge'
• Roane, John Selden, (1817-1867), Major General
• Rust, Albert, (1818-1870), Brigadier General
• Stuart, James E.B., ( - ), cavalry general
• Tappan, James C., (1825-1906), Brigadier General

Confederate States Civilians

• Booth, John Wilkes, (1838-1865), assassin of Abraham Lincoln
• Boyd, Belle, (1843-1900), Confederate spy
• Greenhow, Rose O., (1817-1864), Confederate spy
• Mudd, Samuel A., (1833-1883), physician, assisted John Wilkes Booth

Confederate States Navy

• Brown, Isaac N., (1817-1889), Captain of CSS Arkansas
• Read, Charles W., (1840-1890), Confederate raider
• Semmes, Raphael, (1809-1877), Admiral, Captain of CSS Alabama

Confederate States Political Leaders

• Benjamin, Judah P., (1811-1884), Attorney General, Secretary of War, Secretary of State
• Breckenridge, John C., (1821-1875), Secretary of War
• Davis, Jefferson F., (1808-1889), President of the Confederate States
• Mallory, Stephen, (1812-1873), Secretary of the Navy
• Stephens, Alexander, (1812-1883), Vice President of the Confederate States
• Toombs, Robert, (1810-1885), Secretary of State

United States Army

• Ames, Adelbert, (1835-1933), Major General
• Burnside, Ambrose E., (1824-1881), General, commander of the Army of the Potomac
• Canby, Edward Richard Sprigg, ( -1873), Major General
• Chamberlain, Joshua Lawrence, (1828-1914), Major General
• Custer, George A., (1839-1876), cavalry General
• Doubleday, Abner, (1819-1893), Major General
• Fremont, John C., (1813-1890), Major General
• Grant, Ulysses S., (1822-1885), Lieutenant General, commander of all US armies
• Halleck, Henry W., (1815-1872), commanding General, US Army
• Hooker, Joseph, (1814-1879), Major General, commander of the Army of the Potomac
• Hunter, David, (1803-1888), general
• Lincoln, Robert Todd, (1843-1926), Captain on Grant's Staff, son of Abraham Lincoln
• Meade, George G., (1815-1872), Major General, commander of the Army of the Potomac, US leader at Gettysburg
• McClellan, George B., (1826-1885), Major General, commander of the Army of the Potomac
• Reynolds, John F., (1820-1863), Corps commander
• Schurz, Carl, (1829-1906), Brigadier General
• Scott, Winfield, (1786-1866), General-In-Chief
• Sheridan, Philip H., (1831-1888), cavalry general
• Sherman, William T., (1820-1891), general, marched to the sea
• Thomas, George H., (1816-1870), general, known as 'The Rock of Chickamauga'
• Wallace, Lew, (1827-1905), general

United States Civilians

• Barton, Clara, (1821-1912), nurse
• Brady, Matthew, (1824-1896), War photographer
• Brown, John, (1800-1859), abolitionist
• Cushman, Pauline, (1833-1893), Union spy
• Douglass, Frederick, (1818-1895), abolitionist
• Edmonds, Sarah Emma, (1841-1898), Union spy
• Ericsson, John, (1803-1889), designer of USS Monitor
• Garrison, William L., (1805-1879), abolitionist
• Greeley, Horace, (1811-1872), publisher of New York Tribune
• Howe, Julia Ward, (1819-1910), writer of the Battle Hymn of the Republic
• Lincoln, Mary Todd, (1818-1882), First Lady
• Nightingale, Florence, (1820-1910), inspired US Sanitary Commission
• Pinkerton, Allan, (1819-1884), head of US Secret Service
• Van Lew, Elizabeth, (1818-1900), Union spy

United States Navy

• Dahlgren, John A., (1809-1870), Admiral, head of Ordnance Department
• Farragut, David G., (1801-1870), Admiral, commander of West Gulf Blockading Squadron
• Read, Abner, (1821-1863), Lieutenant Commander in West Gulf Blockading Squadron

United States Political Leaders

• Cameron, Simon, (1799-1889), Secretary of War
• Chase, Salmon P., (1808-1873), Secretary of the Treasury
• Hamlin, Hannibal, (1809-1891), Vice President of the United States
• Johnson, Andrew, (1808-1875), Vice President of the United States
• Lincoln, Abraham, (1809-1865), President of the United States
• Murphy, Isaac, (1799-1882), Governor of Arkansas, first Lincoln reconstruction Governor
• Seward, William H., (1801-1872), Secretary of State
• Stanton, Edwin M., (1814-1869), Secretary of War
• Taney, Roger, (1777-1864), Chief Justice of the Supreme Court
• Welles, Gideon, (1802-1878), Secretary of the Navy