Find a Grave Birth: Dec. 29, 1819 Death: Jan. 1, 1916 Civil War Union Brevet Brigadier General. He entered the Union Army with a commission of Captain and commander of Company D, 44th Illinois ...

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An American naval officer who was noted for his service in the American Civil War and also for his contributions to several naval reforms in the years prior to the war. When the war came, he was appo...

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Richard Curd ("Dick") Morgan was born on 13 September 1836 in Fayette County, Kentucky, the son of Calvin Cogswell Morgan (1801-1854) and Henrietta Hunt (1805-1891). Henrietta Hunt's father was one of ...

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Mathew B. Brady (ca. 1822 – January 15, 1896) was one of the most celebrated 19th century American photographers, best known for his portraits of celebrities and his documentation of the American Civ...

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U.S. Civil War Soldiers, 1861- 1865: Name:Benjamin Cox- Side: Confederate Regiment. State/Origin: Mississippi. Benjamin F. Cox MyHeritage family trees 9838213-17 in Sherman Web Site, managed by J...

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John Potts Slough (February 1, 1829 – December 17, 1867; name rhymes with "cow") was an American politician, lawyer, Union general during the American Civil War, and Chief Justice of New Mexico. He...

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John Johns (July 1796 – April 4, 1876) was the fourth Episcopal bishop of Virginia. Early life and education Born into a prominent political family in New Castle, Delaware, John Johns was bor...

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Note: James Bulloch is on the left in the profile photo; his half-brother, Irvine Bulloch, is on the right. James Dunwody Bulloch (25 June 1823 – 7 January 1901)[1] was the Confederate States of Am...

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Oran Milo Roberts (July 9, 1815 – May 19, 1898), was the 17th Governor of Texas from January 21, 1879 to January 16, 1883. He was a member of the Democratic Party. Roberts County, Texas, is named a...

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Francis Richard Lubbock (October 16, 1815 – June 22, 1905) was the ninth Governor of Texas and was in office during the American Civil War. He was the brother of Thomas Saltus Lubbock, for whom Lub...

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John Albion Andrew (May 31, 1818 – October 30, 1867) was a U.S. political figure. He served as the 25th Governor of Massachusetts between 1861 and 1866 during the American Civil War. He was a guiding...

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Henry Toole Clark (February 7, 1808– April 14, 1874) was the 36th Governor of the U.S. state of North Carolina from 1861 to 1862 during the American Civil War. Henry T. Clark was born to a promin...

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Civil War Confederate Army Officer, CSA Congressman, South Carolina Governor. He joined the Confederate Army after the outbreak of the Civil War, becoming Lieutenant Colonel of the 14th South Carol...

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Thomas Elliott Bramlette (January 3, 1817 – January 12, 1875) was the 23rd Governor of Kentucky. He was elected in 1863 and guided the state through the latter part of the Civil War and the beginning...

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lawyer, planter, and governor "As governor of Kentucky... he opposed secession, favored compromise, and sought ot preserve the neutrality of his state. .. he refused Lincoln's call for troops, . and....

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Hugh Smith Thompson (January 24, 1836 – November 20, 1904) was the 81st Governor of South Carolina, from 1882 to 1886. Born in Charleston, Thompson graduated from The Citadel in 1856 and was an i...

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Robert Kingston Scott (July 8, 1826 – August 12, 1900) was an American Republican politician, the 74th Governor of South Carolina, and an officer in the Union Army during the American Civil War. In...

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John Hugh Means (August 18, 1812 – August 30, 1862) was the 64th Governor of South Carolina from 1850 to 1852 and an infantry colonel in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. He ...

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Jedediah Hotchkiss was an educator and the most famous cartographer and topographer of the American Civil War. His detailed and accurate maps of the Shenandoah Valley are credited by many as a princi...

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Pioneered the commercial growing of peaches in Georgia, was chief supply officer for Confederate general James Longstreet, participated in most of the major battles of the Civil War (1861-65) in the ea...

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Joseph Emerson Brown (April 15, 1821 – November 30, 1894), often referred to as Joe Brown, was the 42nd Governor of Georgia from 1857 to 1865, and a U.S. Senator from 1880 to 1891. Governor Brown was...

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) George Washington Johnson (May 27, 1811 – April 8, 1862) was the first Confederate governor of Kentucky. A lawyer-turned-farmer from Scott County, Kentucky, Johnson favored secession as a means of ...

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Francis Harrison Pierpont (January 25, 1814 – March 24, 1899), called the "Father of West Virginia," was an American lawyer, politician, and unelected "governor" of the Union-controlled parts of Virg...

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James Chatham Duane (June 10, 1824 – December 8, 1897) was an engineering officer in the Union Army during the American Civil War, being the Chief Engineer of the Army of the Potomac. Duane was b...

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Jennie is best remembered for making the first three battle flags of the Confederacy (along with her sister and cousin) and for creating what would become the state song of Maryland ("Maryland, My Mary...

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William Harwar Parker (October 8, 1826 – December 30, 1896) was an officer in the United States Navy and later in the Confederate States Navy. His auto-biography, entitled Recollections of a Naval Of...

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. Foxhall Alexander Parker (5 August 1821 – 10 June 1879) was an officer in the United States Navy during the American Civil War. Biography He was born in New York, the son of Foxhall A. Park...

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Melancthon Brooks Woolsey (11 August 1817 – 2 October 1874) was an officer in the United States Navy during and after the American Civil War. He was commodore of the South Atlantic Station in the 187...

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) Samuel Barron (November 28, 1809 – February 26, 1888) was a United States, and later Confederate naval officer, acting as a representative in Europe for the Confederacy during the American Civil Wa...

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David Emanuel Twiggs (1790 – July 15, 1862) was a United States soldier during the War of 1812 and Mexican-American War and a general of the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. He ...

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Samuel Everett Pingree (August 2, 1832 – June 1, 1922) was a lawyer, a U.S. politician of the Republican Party, and an American Civil War veteran who received the Medal of Honor. Early life Pin...

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) Peter Augustus Porter (July 14, 1827 – June 3, 1864) was a Union Army colonel in the American Civil War. He died in the Battle of Cold Harbor. Porter was born in Black Rock, New York, the only ...

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Commander James Harmon Ward (25 September 1806 – 27 June 1861) was the first officer of the United States Navy killed during the American Civil War. Biography Born at Hartford, Connecticut, W...

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Holman Staples Melcher (1841–1905) was an American Civil War officer and postbellum mayor of Portland, Maine. Melcher was a company commander in the 20th Maine Volunteer Infantry Regiment that charge...

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John Bullock Van Petten (June 19, 1827 Sterling, Cayuga County, New York – October 31, 1908) was an American educator, Union Army general and politician from New York. Life He was the son of Pe...

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from his obituary, printed March 1, 1910-- Major Edward Willis was a native of Charleston, descended from Huguenot ancestry on the maternal side, and on the paternal from Judge Jonathan Willis, one o...

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He participated in virtually all the important battles of the Civil War, including Gettysburg, Chancellorsville and Fredericksburg (where he was taken prisoner), and was regularly promoted until he...

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Franklin Aretas Haskell (July 13, 1828 – June 3, 1864) was a Union Army officer during the American Civil War who was killed during the Battle of Cold Harbor. Haskell wrote a famous account of the Ba...

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Joshua James Guppey (August 27, 1820 – December 8, 1893) was a military officer in the Union Army during the American Civil War, judge, school superintendent and politician. Biography Guppe...

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John Carson Febiger (14 February 1821 – 9 October 1898) was a rear admiral of the United States Navy, who served with distinction in the Union Navy during the American Civil War. Biography Fe...

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Frederick William Benteen (August 24, 1834 – June 22, 1898) was a military officer during the American Civil War and then during the Black Hills War against the Lakota and Northern Cheyenne. He is no...

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George Musalas "Colvos" Colvocoresses (October 22, 1816 – June 3, 1872) was a United States Navy officer who commanded the Saratoga during the American Civil War. From 1838 up until 1842, he served i...

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Philippe Régis Denis de Keredern de Trobriand (June 4, 1816 – July 15, 1897) was a French aristocrat, lawyer, poet, and novelist who emigrated at a young age to the United States. During the American...

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Joseph Rodman West (September 19, 1822 – October 31, 1898) was a United States Senator from Louisiana and a general in the United States Army during and after the American Civil War. As a commander...

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Daniel Webster Flagler (June 20, 1835 – March 29, 1899) was a United States Army Brigadier General. He was prominent as the Army's Chief of Ordnance. Early life Flagler was appointed to t...

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William Robert Douglas Blackwood was born in Hollywood, Ireland on May 12, 1838 to Robert Blackwood and Victoria Douglas. Before immigrating to the United States in 1850 he attended Bruce’s College a...

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Joseph Kirby Corson was born on November 22, 1837 in Plymouth Meeting, Pennsylvania. With the outbreak of the Civil War, Corson was among those who answered Abraham Lincoln’s call for 90 day voluntee...

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Cecil Clay (February 13, 1842 – September 23, 1903) was captain of Company K in the 58th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry Regiment in the Union Army during the American Civil War. He performed galla...

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Richard Bickerton Pemell Lyons, 1st Viscount Lyons, GCB, GCMG, PC, DCL (6 April 1817 - 5 December 1887) was an eminent British diplomat. Biography Born in Lymington, Hampshire, Lyons was the ...

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as found on From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Joseph Orville Shelby (December 12, 1830 – February 13, 1897) was a noted Confederate cavalry general in the Trans-Mississippi Theater of the America...

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Rufus Clay Barringer (December 2, 1821 – February 3, 1895) was a North Carolina lawyer, politician, and American Civil War brigadier general. Early life Barringer was born in Cabarrus County,...

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He went from a private to, in June, 1865 was brevetted Brigadier General for "meritorious services during the war. That is Notable. Obituary

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Gideon Welles (July 1, 1802 – February 11, 1878) was the United States Secretary of the Navy from 1861 to 1869. His buildup of the Navy to successfully execute blockades of Southern ports was a key c...

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Henry Shippen Huidekoper (July 17, 1839 – November 9, 1918) was a general from Pennsylvania in Union Army who received the United States military's highest decorations for bravery, the Medal of Honor...

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General John S. Clark of Auburn New York, was born on November 2, 1823 in the town of Mentz, NY, the son of Israel S. DaVall and Sallie L. Clark. His original name was John Swarthout Smith Duvall and...

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Born to a Sephardic family in the West Indies, Judah P. Benjamin was the most highly placed Jew in the Confederacy. Benjamin spent his adolescence in Charleston and briefly attended Yale University. ...

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Mary Martha Reid (September 19, 1812 – June 24, 1894) is Florida's "most famous nurse and Confederate heroine." She is best known for serving as the matron of the Florida Hospital, founded in Richm...

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Benjamin Franklin Potts (January 29, 1836 – June 17, 1887) was a lawyer, politician, and soldier from the state of Ohio who served as a general in the Union Army during the American Civil War, as wel...

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George Henry Hoyt (November 25, 1837 - February 2, 1877) was an abolitionist and attorney for John Brown. During the Civil War, he served as a Union cavalry officer and captain of the Kansas Red Leg ...

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Henry Hungerford Marmaduke served in the Confederate Navy. He commanded a gun crew of 14 men on board the ironclad CSS Virginia (aka, CSS Merrimac) during it's historic battle with the ironclad USS M...

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John Robert Baylor (July 27, 1822 – February 8, 1894) was a politician in Texas and a military officer of the Confederate States of America during the American Civil War. Biography Baylor w...

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) John Mendenhall (July 12, 1829 – July 1, 1892) was an officer in the United States Army. As a Union Army artillery officer in the American Civil War, his performance was notable at the Battle of ...

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Roger Preston Chew (April 9, 1843 – March 16, 1921) was a noted horse artillery commander in the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia during the American Civil War. After the war, he was a prominent...

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William Thomas Poague (December 20, 1835 – September 8, 1914) was a Confederate States Army officer serving in the Artillery during the American Civil War. He later served as Treasurer of Virginia Mi...

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Andrew Jackson Grigsby (November 2, 1819 – December 23, 1895) was a Confederate States Army officer in the famed Stonewall Brigade during the American Civil War. Grigsby was also known as both "A. J....

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Brigadier-General Charles S. Winder was born in Maryland in 1829. He was graduated at West Point in 1850, and on advancement from second to first-lieutenant of infantry, U. S. A., was ordered to the Pa...

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George Lafayette Beal (May 21, 1825 – December 11, 1896) was an American politician from the state of Maine who served in the Union forces during the American Civil War. Early life and background...

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Clement Laird Vallandigham (pronounced velan´digham) (July 29, 1820 – June 17, 1871) was an Ohio politician, and leader of the Copperhead faction of anti-war Democrats during the American Civil War. ...

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Joseph Farmer Knipe (March 30, 1823 – August 18, 1901) was a brigadier general in the Union Army during the American Civil War. His troops won a decisive victory in late 1864 that helped clear Tennes...

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Charles White Blair was a lawyer, and Union Army officer who served in three different regiments during the American Civil War. He fought primarily in the Trans-Mississippi Theater and was notable ...

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Abram Fulkerson (May 13, 1834 – December 17, 1902) was a Confederate officer during the American Civil War, and a Virginia lawyer and politician. He served in the Virginia House of Delegates, as well...

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) James Conner (September 1, 1829 – June 26, 1883), was a Confederate States Army brigadier general during the American Civil War (Civil War). He was a lawyer in South Carolina both before and after ...

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William Richard Terry (March 12, 1827 – March 28, 1897) was a businessman, politician, prison superintendent and a brigadier general in the Confederate Army during the American Civil War. Biograp...

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Chatham Roberdeau Wheat (April 9, 1826 – June 27, 1862) was a Captain in the United States Army Volunteers during the Mexican War, Louisiana State Representative, lawyer, mercenary in Cuba, Mexico, a...

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Edmund Kirby Smith (May 16, 1824 – March 28, 1893) was a career United States Army officer and educator. He served as a general in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War, notable f...

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Samuel Chapman Armstrong (January 30, 1839 – May 11, 1893) was an American educator and a commissioned officer in the Union Army during the American Civil War. He is best remembered for his work afte...

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Julius H. Stahel-Számwald (November 5, 1827 – December 4, 1912) was a Hungarian soldier who emigrated to the United States and became a Union general in the American Civil War. After the war, he served...

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John Frederick Hartranft (December 16, 1830 – October 17, 1889) was the 17th Governor of Pennsylvania from 1873 to 1879 and a Union Major General who received the Medal of Honor for his actions durin...

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Willis Arnold Gorman (January 12, 1816 – May 20, 1876) was an American lawyer, soldier, politician, and a general in the Union Army during the American Civil War. Biography Gorman was born ne...

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) James Cameron (March 1, 1800 – July 21, 1861) was a Pennsylvanian who served as colonel of the 79th New York Volunteer Infantry Regiment of the Union Army during the early days of the American Civi...

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Thornton A. Jenkins (11 December 1811 – 9 August 1893) was an officer in the United States Navy, who served during the Mexican-American War and the American Civil War. He later served as Chief of the...

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Peter Conover Hains (July 6, 1840 – November 7, 1921) was a major general in the United States Army, and a veteran of the American Civil War, Spanish-American War, and the First World War. He is be...

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Michael Corcoran went to New York. He entered the military &, in due course, became Brigadier General of his regiment, The 69th, aka 'The Fighting Irish'. He died after an accident(?) whilst out riding...

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Charles Davis Jameson was a general in the American Civil War. Charles Davis Jameson (February 24, 1827–November 6, 1862) was an American Civil War general and Democratic Party candidate for Govern...

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James Findlay Schenck (11 June 1807 – 21 December 1882) was a rear admiral in the United States Navy who served in the Mexican–American War and the American Civil War. Biography Born in Franklin,...

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Robert Cumming Schenck (October 4, 1809 – March 23, 1890) was a Union Army general in the American Civil War, and American diplomatic representative to Brazil and the United Kingdom. He was at both b...

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Dixon Stansbury Miles (May 4, 1804 – September 16, 1862) was a career United States Army officer who served in the Mexican-American War and the Indian Wars. He was mortally wounded as he surrendered ...

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Robert Franklin Beckham (May 6, 1837 – December 5, 1864) was a young artillery officer who commanded a horse artillery battalion under J.E.B. Stuart and in the Army of Tennessee. He was mortally woun...

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Arnold Elzey (Jones), Jr. (December 18, 1816 – February 21, 1871) was a soldier in both the United States Army and the Confederate Army, serving as a major general during the American Civil War. He w...

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Charles Frederick Fisher (1816 – July 21, 1861) was an American attorney, legislator, engineer, and soldier from Rowan County, North Carolina who during the American Civil War became the Colonel comm...

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) John Pelham (September 7, 1838 – March 17, 1863) was an artillery officer who served with the Confederate cavalry under J.E.B. Stuart during the American Civil War. Dubbed "The Gallant Pelham" for ...

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William Farrar Smith (February 17, 1824 – February 28, 1903), was a civil engineer, a member of the New York City police commission, and Union general in the American Civil War. Early life Sm...

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Montgomery Dent Corse (March 14, 1816 – February 11, 1895) was an American banker, gold prospector, and soldier who served as a general in the Confederate States Army during the Civil War. He command...

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Erasmus R. Burt (c. 1820 – October 26, 1861) was an American physician, politician, and soldier. He served as the State Auditor of Mississippi, and was then a member of the Mississippi House of Repre...

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Dandridge McRae (October 10, 1829 – April 23, 1899) was a lawyer, court official, and Inspector General of Arkansas State Troops, as well as a brigadier general in the Confederate States Army during ...

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James Haggin McBride (1814 – March 1864) was an American businessman, lawyer, banker, judge, legislator, and soldier. He served as a Confederate general during the American Civil War, dying in the co...

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Young Marshall Moody (June 23, 1822 – September 18, 1866) was a Confederate States Army officer who was promoted to brigadier general near the end of the American Civil War. He was a teacher, merch...

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William Plummer Benton (December 25, 1828 – March 14, 1867) was an American lawyer and soldier who served in both the Mexican-American War and the American Civil War, where he would rise to the rank ...

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Civil War Union Brevet Brigadier General. In the Fall of 1862, he enlisted in the newly formed 6th Michigan Cavalry, and was commissioned Captain. Serving in the Michigan Cavalry Brigade under comman...

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Civil War Union Brevet Brigadier General, Congressional Medal of Honor Recipient. He served during the Civil War first as Major of the 8th Missouri Volunteer Infantry, then as Lieutenant Colonel of t...

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