- Jefferson Davis
Jefferson Finis Davis was an American politician who served as President of the Confederate States of America for its entire history from 1861 to 1865 during the American Civil War. Davis believed that corruption had destroyed the old Union and that the Confederacy had to be pure to survive. During his presidency, Davis was never able to find a strategy that would defeat the larger, more industrially developed Union. - Robert E. Lee
Robert Edward Lee (January 19, 1807 - October 12, 1870) was a career U.S. Army officer and the most celebrated general of the Confederate forces during the American Civil War. Lee was the son of Maj. Gen. Henry Lee III "Light Horse Harry" (1756-1818), Governor of Virginia, and his second wife, Anne Hill Carter (1773-1829). He was a descendant of Thomas More and of King Robert II of Scotland through the Earls of Crawford. - Ulysses S. Grant
Ulysses S. Grant (born Hiram Ulysses Grant, April 27, 1822 - July 23, 1885) was an American general and the eighteenth President of the United States (1869-1877). He achieved international fame as the leading Union general in the American Civil War, capturing Vicksburg in 1863 and Richmond in 1865. He accepted the surrender of his Confederate opponent Robert E. Lee at Appomattox Court House. - Kevin Willmott
Kevin Wilmott is a Professor of Film at the University of Kansas. Willmott wrote and directed the feature film "C.S.A.: The Confederate States of America," about a North America where the Confederacy won the American Civil War. After its premiere at the Sundance Film Festival, IFC Films purchased the film for domestic theatrical distribution. "CSA" was released theatrically by IFC in late 2005, and is now available on DVD. - Winfield Scott
Winfield Scott (June 13, 1786 - May 29, 1866) was a United States Army general, diplomat, and presidential candidate. Known as "Old Fuss and Feathers" and the "Grand Old Man of the Army", he served on active duty as a general longer than any other man in American history and most historians rate him the ablest American commander of his time. Over the course of his fifty-year career, he commanded forces in the War of 1812, the Mexican-American War, the Black Hawk War, … - John Wilkes Booth
John Wilkes Booth (May 10, 1838 - April 26, 1865) was an American actor from Maryland, who fatally shot President of the United States Abraham Lincoln at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C. on April 14, 1865. Lincoln died the next day from a single gunshot wound to the head - the first American president to be assassinated. Booth was a successful professional stage actor of his day and a member of the prominent Booth family of actors. - Sam Houston
Samuel Houston (March 2, 1793-July 26, 1863) was a 19th century American statesman, politician, and soldier. Born in Virginia, Houston was a key figure in the history of Texas, including periods as President of the Republic of Texas, Senator for Texas after it joined the United States, and finally as governor. Although a slaveowner and opponent of abolitionism, he refused, due to his unionist convictions, … - George B. McClellan
George Brinton McClellan (December 3 1826 - October 29 1885) was a major general during the American Civil War. He organized the famous Army of the Potomac and served briefly (November 1861 to March 1862) as the general-in-chief of the Union Army. Early in the war, McClellan played an important role in raising a well-trained and organized army for the Union. However, although McClellan was meticulous in his planning and preparations, … - William Tecumseh Sherman
William Tecumseh Sherman (February 8, 1820 - February 14 1891) was an American soldier, businessman, educator, and author. He served as a general in the United States Army during the American Civil War (1861-65), receiving both recognition for his outstanding command of military strategy, and criticism for the harshness of the "scorched earth" policies he implemented in conducting total war against the enemy, … - Nathan Bedford Forrest
Nathaniel Bedford Forrest (July 13, 1821-October 29, 1877) was a Confederate Army general during the American Civil War. Perhaps the most highly regarded cavalry and partisan (guerrilla) leader in the war, Forrest is regarded by many military historians as that conflict's most innovative and successful general. His tactics of mobile warfare are still studied by modern soldiers. Forrest is also one of the war's most controversial figures. - John C. Calhoun
John Caldwell Calhoun (March 18, 1782 - March 31, 1850) was a leading United States Southern politician and political philosopher from South Carolina during the first half of the 19th century, at the center of the foreign policy and financial disputes of his age and best known as a spokesman for slavery, nullification and the rights of electoral minorities, such as the Southern states. After a short stint in the South Carolina legislature, … - Alexander Stephens
Alexander Hamilton Stephens (February 11, 1812 - March 4, 1883) was Vice President of the Confederate States of America during the American Civil War. - Daniel Webster
Daniel Webster (January 18 1782 - October 24 1852), was a leading American statesman during the nation's antebellum era. Webster first rose to regional prominence through his defense of New England shipping interests. His increasingly nationalistic views and the effectiveness with which he articulated them led Webster to become one of the most famous orators and influential Whig leaders of the Second Party System. - Judah P. Benjamin
Judah Philip Benjamin (August 6, 1811 - May 6, 1884) was an American politician and lawyer. He was born British, and died a resident in England. He held the following posts: * representative in the Louisiana state legislature *U.S. Senator for Louisiana *three successive Cabinet posts in the government of the Confederate States of America He was also a distinguished barrister and Queen's Counsel in England. - Howell Cobb
Howell Cobb (August 3, 1772 - May 26, 1818) was an American politician, farmer and solider. Born in Granville County, North Carolina, Cobb later moved to Louisville, Georgia. From February 23, 1793, until January 31, 1806, Cobb served in various military positions in the United States Army including ensign and lieutenant in the Second Sub Legion and as captain in the Artillerists and Engineers. - Howell Cobb
Howell Cobb (September 7, 1815 - October 9, 1868) was an American political figure. He served as a five-term Congressman and in the Presidential Cabinet of James Buchanan and then in the civic and military service of Civil War-era Georgia and the Confederate States of America. - William
William Orgain Allen was born William Orgain in 1829. At age two, he inherited the 26,000 acre Claremont Estate on the James River in Virginia from his granduncle Colonel William Allen (1768-1831). To satisfy the terms of his inheritance, his name was officially changed to William Allen in 1832. At the time of his death in 1875, … - Sterling Price
Sterling "Old Pap" Price (September 20, 1809 - September 29, 1867) was an antebellum politician from the U.S. state of Missouri and a Confederate major general during the American Civil War. He led an army back into Missouri in 1864 on an ill-fated expedition to recapture the state for the Confederacy. He took his remaining troops to Mexico following the war rather than surrender to the Union Army. - Richard Taylor
Richard Taylor (January 27, 1826 - April 12, 1879) was a Confederate general in the American Civil War. He was the son of United States President Zachary Taylor and First Lady Margaret Taylor. - George Gordon
George Washington Gordon (born 1836 - 1911) was an officer in the Confederate States Army, rising to be the youngest brigadier general in the confederacy by the last year of the war. After the war, he practiced law in Pulaski, Tenn., where the Ku Klux Klan was formed. He became one of the Klan's first members. In 1867, Gordon became the Klan's first Grand Dragon for the Realm of Tennessee, and wrote its "Precept," a book describing its organization, purpose and principles. - John Milton
John Milton (April 20, 1807-April 1, 1865) was an American politician who was the fifth governor of Florida. John Milton was the son of Homer Virgil Milton (1781 - 1822) and the grandson of Revolutionary War hero and former Georgia Secretary of State, John Milton (1756 - 1804). He may also be a descendant of the English poet of the same name (John Milton). John was born near Louisville, Georgia. He married a Susan Cobb in Georgia about 1830, and they had 4 children. - P. G. T. Beauregard
Pierre Gustave Toutant de Beauregard (May 28, 1818 - February 20, 1893), was a Louisiana-born general for the Confederate Army during the American Civil War. He was also an author, civil servant, politician, and inventor. Beauregard was the first prominent Confederate general. He commanded the defenses of Charleston, South Carolina, for the Battle of Fort Sumter on April 12, 1861, and three months later was the victor at the First Battle of Bull Run near Manassas, Virginia. - Joseph E. Brown
Joseph Emerson Brown (April 15, 1821 - November 30, 1894), often referred to as Joe Brown, was a Governor of Georgia from 1857 to 1865, and a U.S. Senator from 1880 to 1891. During the American Civil War, Brown, a former Whig, had constant disagreements with Confederate President Jefferson Davis, whom he saw as an incipient tyrant. Brown was born in Pickens County, South Carolina and at a young age his family moved to Union County, Georgia. - Major Robert Anderson
Robert Anderson (June 14, 1805 - October 26, 1871) was a Union Army officer in the American Civil War, known for his command of Fort Sumter at the start of the war. He is often referred to using his rank of that time, Major Robert Anderson. - Billy Yank
Billy Yank is the personification of the Northern states of the United States, or less generally, the Union during the American Civil War. The latter part of his name is derived from "yankee", a slang term for Americans. Political cartoonists used Billy Yank and his Confederate counterpart Johnny Rebel to symbolize the combatants in the American Civil War of the 1860s. Billy Yank is usually pictured wearing a wool uniform that included the fatigue blouse, … - Varina Howell
Varina Howell Davis (May 7, 1826 - October 16, 1905) was an American author best known as the second wife of Confederate President Jefferson Davis during the American Civil War. She was born to William B. Howell and Margaret Kempe. In the 1880 U.S. Federal Census for Biloxi, Mississippi, Varina Howell's place of birth was listed as Louisiana; her father's place of birth was listed as New Jersey, and her mother's as Virginia. - Jubal Anderson Early
Jubal Anderson Early (November 3 1816 - March 2 1894) was a lawyer and Confederate general in the American Civil War. - William Randolph
William Randolph (1650 - April 11, 1711) was a colonist and land owner who played an important role in the history and politics of what became the U.S. state of Virginia. He was born in Warwickshire, England, to Richard Randolph (1627-1671) and Elizabeth Ryland (1625-1670). Randolph was also the nephew of English poet Thomas Randolph. He moved to Virginia in 1674 and married Mary Isham later that year. - Edmund Ruffin
Edmund Ruffin (January 5, 1794 - June 18, 1865) was born in Prince George County, Virginia. He was a descendant of William Randolph, the progenitor of the Randolph family. Ruffin was a farmer and slaveholder, a Confederate soldier, and an 1850s political activist. He advocated states' rights, secession, and slavery and was described by opponents as one of the fire-eaters. - Clement Vallandigham
Clement Laird Vallandigham (July 29 1820 - June 17 1871) was an Ohio unionist of the Copperhead faction of anti-war, pro-Confederate Democrats during the American Civil War. He was born in New Lisbon, Ohio (now Lisbon, Ohio). Shortly after moving to Tibet, Ohio to practice law, Vallandigham entered politics. He was elected as a Democrat to the Ohio legislature in 1845 and 1846, and also served as editor of a weekly newspaper, the "Dayton Empire", … - Thomas Dilorenzo
Thomas J. DiLorenzo , professor of economics at Loyola College and adjunct scholar of the Mises Institute, is the author or co-author of Underground Government (1983), Destroying Democracy (1985), The Rhetoric of Antitrust (1986), Official Lies (1992), Cancer Scam (1997), The Food and Drink Police (1999), and dozens of articles in books and scholarly journals, including the Review of Austrian Economics . He teaches at the annual Mises University. - Stephen Mallory
Stephen Russell Mallory (1813 - November 9, 1873) was a United States politician and the Confederate Secretary of the Navy during the American Civil War. Mallory was considered one of President Jefferson Davis's ablest Cabinet officers. He was the father of Stephen Russell Mallory, a U.S. Representative and Senator from Florida. - Wade Hampton III
Wade Hampton III (March 28, 1818 - April 11, 1902) was a Confederate cavalry leader during the American Civil War and afterwards a politician from South Carolina, representing it as governor and U.S. Senator. - Rose O'Neal Greenhow
Rose O'Neal Greenhow (1817-October 1, 1864) was a renowned Confederate spy. As a leader in Washington, D.C. society during the period prior to the American Civil War, she traveled in important political circles and cultivated friendships with presidents, generals, senators, and high-ranking military officers, using her connections to pass along key military information to the Confederacy at the start of the war. - George Davis
George Davis (March 1, 1820 - February 23, 1896) was a Confederate States of America political figure and the last Confederate Attorney General, serving from 1864 to 1865. Born near Wilmington, North Carolina, Davis attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he was valedictorian of the class of 1838. He subsequently studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1840. In 1848 he became general counsel of the Wilmington & Weldon Railroad. - George W. Randolph
George Wythe Randolph (March 10, 1818 - April 3, 1867) was a lawyer and the Confederate States Secretary of War during the American Civil War. He was also Thomas Jefferson's grandson. Randolph was born at Monticello in Charlottesville, Virginia, to Thomas Mann Randolph Jr. {descendant of Pocahontasand Martha Jefferson Randolph (daughter of U.S. President Thomas Jefferson). Named in honor of George Wythe, he was a relative of Edmund Randolph, … - William Preston
William Preston was an American lawyer, politician, ambassador. Preston was born Louisville, Kentucky. He was the nephew of Francis Preston. He pursued preparatory studies and was graduated from St. Joseph's College, Kentucky. He attended Yale College in 1835 and graduated from the law department of Harvard University in 1838. After graduation from Harvard he was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Louisville in 1839. - Walter Williams
Walter Washington Williams, sometimes Walter G. Williams, claimed to be an American Confederate soldier and was reputedly the last surviving veteran of the American Civil War. Born in Itawamba County, Mississippi, he claimed to have served under General John Bell Hood. Since John Salling and all the other "last claimants" were dead, Walter Williams was celebrated as the "last Confederate veteran." When he died in 1959, at the reported age of 117, … - James Chesnut Jr.
James Chesnut, Jr. (January 18, 1815 - February 1, 1885) of Camden, South Carolina, was a United States Senator, a signatory of the Constitution of the Confederate States of America, and a Confederate Army officer. His wife was the well known Mary Chesnut, whose diary reveals valuable observations of Southern life in the American Civil War. Chesnut was a wealthy Southern planter, a defender of slavery, and a staunch secessionist. - Francis S. Bartow
Francis Stebbins Bartow (September 6, 1816 - July 21, 1861) was an attorney, Confederate States of America political leader, and military officer during the early months of the American Civil War. He was an inaugural representative to the Confederate Provisional Congress, where he led efforts to prepare for war. He was killed at the First Battle of Bull Run, becoming the second Confederate general officer (after General Robert S. Garnett at Corricks Ford, July 13, …
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