- William McKinley
William McKinley, Jr. (January 29, 1843 - September 14, 1901) was the twenty-fifth President of the United States, and the last veteran of the Civil War to be elected. By the 1880s, this Ohio native was a nationally known Republican leader; his signature issue was high tariffs on imports as a formula for prosperity, as typified by his McKinley Tariff of 1890. As the Republican candidate in the 1896 presidential election, he upheld the gold standard, … - Henry Wilson
Henry Wilson (February 16, 1812 - November 22, 1875) was a Senator from Massachusetts and the eighteenth Vice President of the United States. He was a leading Republican who devoted his enormous energies to the destruction of what he considered the slavocracy, that is the conspiracy of slave owners to seize control of the federal government and block the progress of liberty. Wilson was born Jeremiah Jones Colbath in Farmington, New Hampshire. - Charles Anderson
Charles Anderson (June 1, 1814 - September 2, 1895) was first a Whig and later a Republican politician from Ohio. He served briefly as the 27th Governor of Ohio. Anderson was born in Louisville, Kentucky, to a prominent family; his father was an aide to the Marquis de Lafayette during the American Revolution. Anderson graduated from Miami University in 1833, studied law and was admitted to the Ohio bar. - John Hay
John Milton Hay was an American statesman, diplomat, author, journalist, and private secretary and assistant to Abraham Lincoln. - Robert Todd Lincoln
Robert Todd Lincoln (August 1, 1843 - July 26, 1926) was the first son of Abraham Lincoln and Mary Ann Todd. Born in Springfield, Illinois, United States, he was the only one of President Lincoln's four sons to die in old age. - Redfield Proctor
Redfield Proctor (June 1, 1831 - March 4, 1908) was a U.S. politician of the Republican Party. He served as Governor of Vermont from 1878 to 1880, as Secretary of War from 1889 to 1891, and as a United States Senator for Vermont from 1891 to 1908. Proctor was a native of Proctorsville (a village in Cavendish, Vermont), named after his family, in Rutland County, Vermont. His father, Jabez Proctor, was a farmer, a merchant, and a prominent local Whig politician. - Patrick Kelly
Patrick Kelly (ca. 1822 - June 14, 1864) was an Irish-American military officer in the Union Army during the American Civil War. He led the famed Irish Brigade at the Battle of Gettysburg. Kelly was born in Castlehacket, County Galway, Ireland, and emigrated to the United States, landing in New York City. His wife Elizabeth was another Irish immigrant. He enlisted in the Union army with the outset of the Civil War, … - Robert Gould Shaw
Robert Gould Shaw (October 10, 1837 - July 18, 1863) was the colonel in command of the all-black 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, which entered the American Civil War in 1863. - Sullivan Ballou
Sullivan Ballou (March 28, 1829 - July 28, 1861), was a lawyer, politician, and major in the United States Army. He is best remembered for the eloquent letter he wrote to his wife a week before he and his Rhode Island militia fought in the First Battle of Bull Run. __TOC_ - Theodore Ayrault Dodge
Theodore Ayrault Dodge (28 May 1842 - 1909) was a Union officer in the American Civil War and a military historian of both that war and of the great generals of ancient and European history. He was considered by his contemporaries, as well as several other historians, to be the greatest American military historian of the nineteenth century. - Joseph Howland
Joseph Howland (December 3, 1834 - March 21 or March 31, 1886) was a Union Army officer and philanthropist. - Edward Dickinson Baker
Edward Dickinson Baker (February 24, 1811 - October 21, 1861) was an English-born American politician, lawyer, military leader. In his political career, Baker served in the U.S. House of Representatives from Illinois and later as a U.S. Senator from Oregon. A long-time close friend of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln, Baker served as U.S. Army colonel during both the Mexican-American War and the American Civil War. - David McConaughy
David McConaughy (July 23, 1823 - 1902) was a noted attorney, cemetery president, and civic leader in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, as well as a part-time intelligence officer for the Union Army during the American Civil War. He was a driving force behind the creation of the Gettysburg National Cemetery following the Battle of Gettysburg. He also led early efforts to preserve the Gettysburg Battlefield for future generations. - Elmer E. Ellsworth
Elmer Ephraim Ellsworth (April 11 1837 - May 24 1861) was known as the first conspicuous casualty of the American Civil War. Ellsworth was born in Malta, New York, grew up in Mechanicville, New York, and lived in New York City. Eventually he moved to Chicago, where he worked as a law clerk. After studying military science in his spare time, Ellsworth became a colonel of Chicago's National Guard Cadets, introducing his men to the Zouave uniforms, … - Patrick O'Rorke
Patrick Henry "Paddy" O'Rorke (March 25 1837 - July 2 1863) was an Irish-American immigrant who became a colonel in the Union Army during the American Civil War and was killed at the Battle of Gettysburg. - Norman J. Hall
Norman Jonathan Hall (1842 - May 26, 1867) was an officer in the United States Army during the American Civil War, perhaps most noted for his defense of his sector of the Union line during Pickett's Charge during the Battle of Gettysburg. Hall was born in New York, but when he was a young man, his family moved to London, Michigan, where his father, the Rev. William Hall, became pastor of a Presbyterian church. - Horace Capron
Horace Capron was an American businessman and agriculturalist, a founder of Laurel, Maryland, a Union officer in the American Civil War, the United States Commissioner of Agriculture under U.S. Presidents Andrew Johnson and Ulysses S. Grant, and an advisor to Japan's Hokkaidō Development Commission. His collection of Japanese art and artifacts was sold to the Smithsonian Institute after his death. - John Moore
Brigadier General, John Moore, MD (August 18, 1826 - March 18, 1907) was a leading United States Army physician during the American Civil War who rose to become Surgeon General of the Army in the late 1880s. John Moore was born in Bloomington, Indiana. He attended Indiana State University and graduated in 1845. He had graduated from the Medical College of Ohio in Cincinnati in 1844. - Friedrich Hecker
Friedrich Franz Karl Hecker (September 28, 1811 - March 24, 1881) was a German lawyer, politician and revolutionary. He was one of the most popular speakers and agitatiors of the 1848 Revolution. - Henry Lee Higginson
Henry Lee Higginson (November 18, 1834 - November 14, 1919) was a noted American businessman and philanthropist, and founder of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Higginson was born in New York City, the second child of George and Mary (Cabot Lee) Higginson, and a cousin of Thomas Wentworth Higginson. When he was four years old, his family moved to Boston. He graduated from Boston Latin School in 1851, and began studies at Harvard College. - Smedley Darlington
Smedley Darlington was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania. Smedley Darlington (second cousin of Congressmen Edward Darlington, Isaac Darlington, and William Darlington) was born in Pocopson Township, Pennsylvania. He attended the common schools and the Friends’ Central School in Philadelphia. He taught at Friends’ Central School for several years, and while teaching he made stenographic reports of sermons, lectures, … - Jurgen Wilson
Jurgen Wilson ["George (Georg) Wilson"] (December 18, 1836-) was a German-American Union Army officer during the American Civil War, serving with the Scandinavian Regiment. - Charles Francis Adams Jr.
Charles Francis Adams, Jr. (May 27 1835 - May 20, 1915) was a member of the prominent Adams political family and son of Charles Francis Adams, Sr.. He served as a general in the Union Army during the American Civil War and was a railroad executive following the war. - Camille Baquet
Camille Archibald Baquet (1842 - November 28, 1924) was an American Civil War Union Army officer who served in the 1st New Jersey Volunteer Infantry regiment, and was the author of the first history of the unit's brigade, the famed First New Jersey Brigade. Born in Paterson, New Jersey, he grew up in Burlington, New Jersey. He was mustered in as a Private in Company I, 16th Pennsylvania Volunteer Cavalry on September 13, 1862. - George Hull Ward
George Hull Ward (April 26, 1826 - July 3, 1863) was a soldier and Union officer in the American Civil War. Ward was born in Worcester, Massachusetts, and educated in the common schools. He married Emily E. Mayo on June 5, 1851. In 1852, Ward rose to command the Worcester City Guards, a local militia company. With the outbreak of the Civil War, Ward enlisted in the Union army. - Thomas W. Osborn
Thomas Ward Osborn (March 9, 1833 - December 18, 1898) was a Union Army officer and United States Senator representing Florida. - Henry Steel Olcott
Colonel Henry Steel Olcott (1832-1907), founder and first president of the Theosophical Society, is well-known as the first prominent person of Western descent to make a formal conversion to Buddhism. His subsequent actions as president of the Theosophical Society helped Buddhism into a new renaissance. He is still honoured in Sri Lanka for these efforts. - Thomas M. Anderson
Thomas McArthur Anderson (January 21, 1836 - May 8, 1917) was a career officer in the United States Army who served as a general in the Spanish-American War and the Philippine-American War. Anderson was born in Chillicothe, Ohio. He attended the Cincinnati School of Law and was admitted to the bar in Cincinnati. When the Civil War broke out, he enlisted in the volunteer army. Under the influences of his uncle, Robert Anderson of Fort Sumter fame, … - Mark Wilkes Collet
Mark Wilkes Collet (June 2, 1826 - May 3, 1863) was a Union Army officer who served during the American Civil War. He served as Colonel and commander of the 1st New Jersey Volunteer Infantry regiment, a unit he led from the Second Battle of Bull Run until the Chancellorsville Campaign. He was killed during his regiment's participation in the May 3, 1863 Battle of Salem Church during the campaign. - Hoyt Sherman
Major Hoyt Sherman (November 21, 1827 - 1904), a member of the prominent Sherman family, was an American banker. Hoyt Sherman was born in Lancaster, Ohio, the son of Charles R. Sherman, Judge of the Ohio Supreme Court. He was the younger brother of US Federal Judge Charles Taylor Sherman, US Senator John Sherman (politician) the distinguished Ohio statesman, and of Major General William T. Sherman of Civil War fame. - Ulric Dahlgren
Ulric Dahlgren (April 3, 1842 - March 2, 1864) was the son of United States Admiral John A. Dahlgren. He is best known for his involvement, as a Union Army colonel, in an unsuccessful 1864 raid on the Confederate capital of Richmond, Virginia, during the American Civil War. He was killed in the raid. Papers found on the body of Dahlgren shortly after his death, contained orders for an assassination plot against Confederate President Jefferson Davis. - Thomas Wentworth Higginson
Thomas Wentworth Higginson (December 22, 1823 - May 9, 1911) was an American author, abolitionist, and soldier. - Theodore Schwan
Theodore Schwan (1841 - May 27, 1926) was a United States Army officer of German birth who served with distinction during the American Civil War, Spanish-American War and the Philippine-American War. - Edward F. Noyes
Edward Follansbee Noyes (October 3, 1832 - September 4, 1890) was a Republican politician from Ohio. Noyes served as the 30th Governor of Ohio. Noyes was born in Haverhill, Massachusetts. He was orphaned at the age of three and was raised in New Hampshire by his grandfather and a guardian. At the age of thirteen, he was apprenticed to the printer of the "The Morning Star", a religious newspaper published in Dover, New Hampshire. - Theophilus Francis Rodenbough
Theophilus Francis Rodenbough (1838 - 1912) was an American soldier and author, and a recipient of the Army Medal of Honor. Rodenbough was born at Easton, Pennsylvania. During the American Civil War, he served in the campaigns of the Army of the Potomac. He commanded the 2nd U.S. Cavalry during the Gettysburg Campaign. He was awarded the Medal of Honor for his efforts in the June 11, 1864, Battle of Trevilian Station. Virginia. - Nathan Goff Jr.
Nathan Goff, Jr. (February 9, 1843 - April 24, 1920) was a member of the United States Congress from West Virginia, who also served briefly as United States Secretary of the Navy during the Rutherford B. Hayes administration. Goff was born in Clarksburg, Harrison County, Virginia (now West Virginia) on February 9, 1843. He attended the Northwestern Academy in Clarksburg and Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., … - Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce
Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce (June 24, 1842 - 1914?) was an American editorialist, journalist, short-story writer and satirist, today best known for his "Devil's Dictionary". Bierce's lucid, unsentimental style has kept him popular when many of his contemporaries have been consigned to oblivion. His dark, sardonic views and vehemence as a critic earned him the nickname, … - Colonel Eli Lilly
Colonel Eli Lilly (1839 - June 6, 1898) was a soldier, pharmaceutical chemist, and industrialist, founder of the eponymous Eli Lilly and Company pharmaceutical corporation. The company has grown to be one of the largest and most influential pharmaceutical companies in the world, offering key pharmaceutical products in almost every key therapeutic area. In 2005, the company registered global revenues of $14.6 billion. - Wayne Macveagh
Isaac Wayne MacVeagh (April 19, 1833 - January 11, 1917) was an American politician and diplomat. Born in Phoenixville, Pennsylvania, he attended Yale University and graduated 10th in his class in 1853. He was admitted to the bar in 1856 and was District Attorney of Chester County, Pennsylvania, from 1859 through 1864. - Benjamin Bristow
Benjamin Helm Bristow (June 20, 1832 - June 22, 1896) was an American lawyer and politician who served as the first Solicitor General of the United States and as a U.S. Treasury Secretary. Born in Elkton, Kentucky, Bristow was the son of Francis Bristow, a Whig member of Congress in 1854-1855 and 1859-1861. He graduated at Jefferson College, Washington, Pennsylvania, in 1851, studied law under his father, and was admitted to the Kentucky bar in 1853.
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