List of people associated with the American Civil War

See American Civil War

Table of 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
Breckenridge, 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

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

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
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
Hooker, Joseph, (1814-1879), Major General, commander of the Army of the Potomac
Hunter, David, (1803-1888), general
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
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

Barton, Clara, (1821-1912), nurse
Brown, John, (1800-1859), abolitionist
Douglass, Frederick, (1818-1895), abolitionist
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
Nightingale, Florence, (1820-1910), inspired US Sanitary Commission

Dahlgren, John A, (1809-1870), Admiral, head of Ordnance Department
Farragut, David G, (1801-1870), Admiral, commander of West Gulf Blockading Squadron

Chase, Salmon P, (1808-1873), Secretary of the Treasury
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
Taney, Roger, (1777-1864), Chief Justice of the Supreme Court