Geraldine Brooks

Geraldine Brooks

female, 54 years old
Australian women writer, Sydney University, The Wall Street Journal, U.S. CivilWar, Balkans, Pulitzer Prize for Fiction winner
Geraldine Brooks (born 1955) is an Pulitzer Prize-winning, Australian-American journalist and author.
Thomas Francis Meagher

Thomas Francis Meagher

male, deceased (1867)
Roman Catholic, Governor of Montana, politician, Union Army general, Convicts transported to Australia, U.S. CivilWar
Thomas Francis Meagher aka: "O'Meagher", or "Meagher of the Sword" (August 3, 1823 - July 1, 1867) was an Irish revolutionary, who also served in...
Adna Chaffee

Adna Chaffee

male, deceased (1914)
United States Army Chief of Staff, from Ohio, Chief of Staff of the United States Army, Indian Wars, U.S. CivilWar, boxer rebellion…spanish-american war
Adna Romanza Chaffee (April 14, 1842-November 1, 1914) was a General in the United States Army. Chaffee took part in the U.S. Civil War and Indian...
Jim Hogg

Jim Hogg

male, deceased (1906)
texas attorney general, James Stephen "Jim" Hogg, conservativism, Texas Attorneys General, U.S. CivilWar, statesman
James Stephen "Jim" Hogg (March 24, 1851-March 3, 1906) Born near Rusk, Texas, Hogg was a Texas lawyer and statesman, and the first native to...
Joseph Janvier Woodward

Joseph Janvier Woodward

male, deceased (1884)
garfield, American Civil War surgeon, National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, U.S. CivilWar, Lieutenant Colonel Joseph Janvier Woodward, Royal Microscopical Society London
Lieutenant Colonel Joseph Janvier Woodward (1833-1884), commonly known as J. J. Woodward, served in the U.S. Civil War as Army Assistant Surgeon...
John Newland Maffitt

John Newland Maffitt

male, deceased (1886)
United States Navy officer, privateer, blockade runner, pirate, Confederate Navy officer, American…U.S. CivilWar
John Newland Maffitt (February 22, 1819-May 15, 1886) was an officer in the Confederate States Navy who was nicknamed the "Prince of Privateers"...
John Codman Ropes

John Codman Ropes

male, deceased (1899)
historian, lawyer, Harvard, gettysburg, American, battle of gettysburg…U.S. CivilWar
John Codman Ropes (1836-1899) was an American military historian and lawyer born at St. Petersburg on the 28th of April 1836, the son of a leading...
Bill Arp

Bill Arp

male, deceased (1903)
Georgia (U.S. state) writer, from Rome, Georgia, Mayor of places in Georgia, U.S. CivilWar, American, cartersville…From the Uncivil War to Date
Born Charles Henry Smith he was a Georgia politician but was more widely known by his nom de plume Bill Arp under which he wrote for nearly 40...
Francis T. Nicholls

Francis T. Nicholls

male, deceased (1912)
Louisiana Supreme Court justice, United States Army officer, attorney, politician, Louisiana lawyer, Confederate States Army…U.S. CivilWar, american civil war
Francis Redding Tillou Nicholls (August 20, 1834 - January 4, 1912) was an American attorney, politician, judge, and a brigadier general in the...
Seth Ledyard Phelps

Seth Ledyard Phelps

male, deceased (1885)
Union Navy officer, U.S. Congress, United States Navy officer, uss lexington, diplomat, tennessee river…U.S. CivilWar
Seth Ledyard Phelps (1824 - 1885) was an American naval officer, politician, and diplomat. He served with distinction in the U.S. Navy during the...