USA History: American Civil War

 

Civil War Chronology
Civil War: 1861-65	Civil War: 1861
Civil War: 1862	Civil War: 1863
Civil War: 1864	Civil War: 1865

 

Women in the Civil War

American Civil War

 

 

Civil War Battles
Fort Sumter (April, 1861)	Murfreesboro (January, 1863)
Bull Run (July, 1861)	Chancellorsville (May, 1863)
Shiloh (April, 1862)	Vicksburg (July, 1863)
Fair Oaks (May, 1862)	Gettysburg (July, 1863)
Gaines Mill (June, 1862)	Chickamauga (September, 1863)
Bull Run (August, 1862)	Wilderness (June, 1864)
Antietam (September, 1862)	Atlanta (September, 1864)
Perryville (October, 1862)	Petersburg (April, 1865)
Fredericksburg (December, 1862)	Five Forks (April, 1865)

 

 

Political Figures
John Andrew	John M. Langston
Edward Bates	William Lathrop
John Bell	Abraham Lincoln
James Birney	Benjamin Loan
Montgomery Blair	John Logan
George Boutwell	Oliver Morton
John Breckenridge	Wendell Phillips
Martin Van Buren	James Seddon
Benjamin Butler	William Seward
Simon Cameron	Horatio Seymour
Lewis Cass	John Sherman
Zachariah Chandler	Caleb Smith
Salmon P. Chase	Gerrit Smith
Schuyler Colfax	James Speed
John Covode	Edwin M. Stanton
Henry Winter Davis	Henry G. Stebbins
Jefferson Davis	Alexander Stephens
William Dennison	Thaddeus Stevens
Stephen Douglas	Charles Sumner
William Fessenden	Samuel Tilden
Hamilton Fish	Lyman Trumbull
John C. Fremont	John Usher
Timothy Fuller	Clement Vallandigham
Joshua Giddings	Benjamin Wade
Horace Greeley	Elihu Washburne
James Grimes	Gideon Welles
Hannibal Hamlin	George H. Williams
Timothy Howe	Thomas Williams
Andrew Johnson	Henry Wilson
George W. Julian	James F. Wilson
William Kelley	Fernando Wood

 

Military Leaders
Robert Anderson	Robert E. Lee
Nathaniel Banks	John Logan
Roy Bean	James Longstreet
Pierre T. Beauregard	William Mahone
Braxton Bragg	Irvin McDowell
Don Carlos Buell	George McClellan
Ambrose Burnside	James McPherson
Benjamin Butler	George Meade
Edward Canby	Thomas Meagher
George A. Custer	Montgomery Meigs
John A. Dix	Edward Ord
Jubal A. Early	Joseph Osterhaus
Arnold Elzey	John Pemberton
Richard Ewell	George Pickett
David Farragut	Leonidas Polk
Nathan B. Forrest	John Pope
William Franklin	David Porter
John Gibbon	William Quantrill
Ulysses Grant	Beverly Robertson
Henry W. Halleck	William Rosecrans
Winfield S. Hancock	John Schofield
Samuel Heintzelman	Carl Schurz
Ethan A. Hitchcock	Winfield Scott
William Hazen	Raphael Semmes
Thomas Harris	Alexander Schimmelfennig
Wild Bill Hickok	Philip H. Sheridan
Ambrose P. Hill	William Sherman
Daniel Hill	Daniel Sickles
John B. Hood	Franz Sigel
Joseph Hooker	George Stoneman
Oliver Howard	James Jeb Stuart
Albion Howe	Edwin Sumner
Benjamin Huger	Alfred Terry
David Hunter	Lorenzo Thomas
Thomas Stonewall Jackson	George H. Thomas
Ole Johnson	Emory Upton
Albert S. Johnston	James Wadsworth
Joseph E. Johnston	Lewis Wallace
Hugh Kilpatrick	August Willich
Edmund Kirby-Smith	John H. Winder

 

Civil War Generals

Civil War Battles

 

Organizations, Events and Issues
Union Army	Confederate Army
Anaconda Plan	European Recruits
Enrollment Act	Conscription Act
Black Regiments	Draft Riots
Emancipation Proclamation	Copperheads
Ewing's Order No 11	Massacre at Fort Pillow
Reconstruction Plan	Reconstruction Act
Shenandoah Valley	Andersonville Prison
War Casualties	Medical Treatment
Prisoner Exchange	Thanks of Congress
Quantrill Raiders	Conspiracy Trial

 

 

 

Civil War Soldiers
Clay Allison	William Kueffner
Orville Babcock	Evander M. Law
Charles Bassett	Robert Lincoln
Edward Baker	Ranad Mackenzie
Sullivan Ballou	Nelson Miles
William Belknap	Christian Morbeck
Frederick Benteen	John S. Mosby
Kit Carson	Amund Olsen
Emmet Crawford	Jack Omohundro
John Crawford	Ely S. Parker
George Crook	William Peffer
Martin R. Delany	John L. Ransom
Arthur Ducat	Marcus Reno
Elmer Ellsworth	Robert Shaw
James W. Forsyth	Al Sieber
Robert Foster	Ole Steensland
James Garfield	William Wallace
Herman Haupt	Max Weber
Hans C. Heg	Frank Wilkeson
August Kautz	Jurgen Wilson
James Kemper	Henry Wirz

 

 

Women and the War
Louisa May Alcott	Dorothea Dix
Susan Anthony	Sarah Edmunds
Clara Barton	Rose O'Neal Greenhow
Mary A. Bickerdyke	Mary Livermore
Elizabeth Blackwell	Mary J. Stafford
Belle Boyd	Mary Surratt
Mary Boykin Chesnut	Jane Grey Swisshelm
Frances Clalin	Elizabeth Van Lew
Pauline Cushman	Mary Walker

 

 

 

Writers, Artists and Photographers
George Barnard	Joseph Medill
Ambrose Bierce	Thomas Nast
Mathew Brady	Timothy O'Sullivan
William F. Browne	William Pywell
Edwin Forbes	Charles Ray
Alexander Gardner	Henry J. Raymond
James Gardner	Henry Villard
Horace Greeley	Alfred Waud
Winslow Homer	Walt Whitman
William Dean Howells	John Greenleaf Whittier

 

Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
Samuel Arnold	August Kautz
James Ashby	Michael O'Laughlin
George Atzerodt	Mary Lincoln
Lafayette Baker	John M. Lloyd
John Bingham	Benjamin Loan
John Wilkes Booth	Samuel Mudd
George Boutwell	John Parker
Boston Corbett	Lewis Powell
Thomas Eckert	Henry Rathbone
Otto Eisenchiml	Andrew J. Rogers
Robert Foster	Edman Spangler
Clara Harris	James Speed
Thomas Harris	Edwin M. Stanton
David Herold	John Surratt
Joseph Holt	Mary Surratt
Albion Howe	Lewis Wallace
David Hunter	Louis Weichmann