- 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.
- George Meade
George Gordon Meade (December 31, 1815 - November 6, 1872) was a career U.S. Army officer and civil engineer involved in coastal construction, including several lighthouses. He fought with distinction in the Seminole War and Mexican-American War. During the American Civil War he served as a Union general, rising from command of a brigade to the Army of the Potomac. He is best known for defeating Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee at the Battle of Gettysburg in 1863.
- James Longstreet
James Longstreet (January 8, 1821 - January 2, 1904) was one of the foremost Confederate generals of the American Civil War, the principal subordinate to General Robert E. Lee, who called him his "Old War Horse." He served under Lee as a corps commander for many of the famous battles fought by the Army of Northern Virginia in the Eastern Theater, but also with Gen. Braxton Bragg in the Army of Tennessee in the Western Theater.
- Michael Shaara
Michael Shaara (June 23, 1928 - May 5, 1988) was an American writer of science fiction, sports fiction, and historical fiction. He was born to Italian immigrant parents (the family name was originally spelled Sciarra) in Jersey City, New Jersey, graduated from Rutgers University in 1951, and served as an airborne infantry officer in the Korean War. Before Shaara began selling science fiction stories to fiction magazines in the 1950s, …
- John Buford
John Buford, Jr. (March 4, 1826 - December 16, 1863) was a Union cavalry officer during the American Civil War, with a prominent role at the start of the Battle of Gettysburg.
- Joshua Chamberlain
Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain (September 8 1828 - February 24 1914) was a college professor from Maine who volunteered to join the Union Army without the benefit of any formal military education, and became a highly respected and decorated Union officer during the American Civil War, reaching the rank of brigadier general (and brevet major general). For his gallantry at Gettysburg, he was awarded the Medal of Honor.
- George Pickett
George Edward Pickett (January 28 or January 16 1825 - July 30 1875) was a career U.S. Army officer who became a general in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. He is best remembered for his participation in the futile and bloody assault at the Battle of Gettysburg that bears his name, Pickett's Charge.
- Abner Doubleday
Abner Doubleday (June 26, 1819 - January 26, 1893), was a career U.S. Army officer and Union general in the American Civil War. He fired the first shot in defense of Fort Sumter, the opening battle of the war, and had a pivotal role in the early fighting at the Battle of Gettysburg. Gettysburg was his finest hour, but his relief by Maj. Gen. George G. Meade caused lasting enmity between the two men.
- Winfield Scott Hancock
Winfield Scott Hancock (February 14, 1824 - February 9, 1886) was a career U.S. Army officer who served with distinction in the Mexican-American War and as a Union general the American Civil War. Hancock was noted in particular for his personal leadership at the Battle of Gettysburg in 1863. A military historian wrote, "No other Union general at Gettysburg dominated men by the sheer force of their presence more completely than Hancock." After the Civil War, …
- Richard S. Ewell
Richard Stoddert Ewell (February 8, 1817 - January 25, 1872) was a career U.S. Army officer and a Confederate general during the American Civil War. He achieved fame as a senior commander under Stonewall Jackson and Robert E. Lee and fought effectively through much of the war, but his legacy has been clouded by controversies over his actions at the Battle of Gettysburg and at the Battle of Spotsylvania Court House.
- Henry Heth
Henry "Harry" Heth (December 16, 1825 - September 27, 1899) was a career U.S. Army officer and a Confederate general in the American Civil War. He is best-remembered for precipitating the Battle of Gettysburg, accomplished inadvertently while sending some of his troops of the Army of Northern Virginia to the small Pennsylvania village, according to his memoirs, seeking shoes.
- John F. Reynolds
John Fulton Reynolds (September 20, 1820 - July 1, 1863) was a career U.S. Army officer and a general in the American Civil War. One of the Union Army's most respected senior commanders, despite having a relatively limited amount of combat experience in the war, he played a key role in committing the Army of the Potomac to the Battle of Gettysburg and was killed at the very start of the battle.
- Strong Vincent
Strong Vincent (June 17, 1837 - July 7, 1863) was a lawyer who became famous as a U.S. Army officer during the fighting on Little Round Top at the American Civil War Battle of Gettysburg, where he was mortally wounded.
- Oliver O. Howard
Oliver Otis Howard (November 8, 1830 - October 26, 1909) was a career U.S. Army officer and a Union general in the American Civil War. He was a corps commander noted for suffering two humiliating defeats, at Chancellorsville and Gettysburg, but he recovered from the setbacks while posted in the Western Theater, and served there successfully as a corps and army commander. After the war, he commanded troops in the West, …
- Gouverneur K. Warren
Gouverneur Kemble Warren (January 8, 1830 - August 8, 1882) was a civil engineer and prominent general in the Union Army during the American Civil War. He is best remembered for arranging the last-minute defense of Little Round Top during the Battle of Gettysburg and is often referred to as the "Hero of Little Round Top." His subsequent service as a corps commander and his remaining military career were ruined during the Battle of Five Forks, …
- William C. Oates
William Calvin Oates (either November 30 or December 1, 1833 - September 9, 1910) was a Confederate colonel during the American Civil War and later the Democratic Governor of Alabama from 1894 to 1896. William C. Oates was born in Pike County, Alabama to William and Sarah (Sellers) Oates, a poor farming family. At the age of 17, he believed that he had killed a man in a violent brawl and left home for Florida.
- William Barksdale
William Barksdale (August 21, 1821 - July 3, 1863) was a lawyer, newspaper editor, U.S. Congressman, and a Confederate general in the American Civil War, killed at the Battle of Gettysburg.
- George S. Greene
George Sears Greene (May 6, 1801 - January 28, 1899) was a civil engineer and a Union general during the American Civil War. He was part of the Greene family of Rhode Island, which had a distinguished military record for the United States. His greatest contribution during the war was his defense of the Union right flank at Culp's Hill during the Battle of Gettysburg.
- Isaac R. Trimble
Isaac Ridgeway Trimble (May 15 1802 - January 2 1888) was a U.S. Army officer, a civil engineer, a prominent railroad construction superintendent and executive, and a Confederate general in the American Civil War, most famous for his leadership role in the assault known as Pickett's Charge at the Battle of Gettysburg.
- J. Johnston Pettigrew
James Johnston Pettigrew (July 4, 1828 - July 17, 1863) was an author, lawyer, linguist, diplomat, and a Confederate general in the American Civil War. He was a major leader in the disastrous Pickett's Charge and was killed a few days after the Battle of Gettysburg during the Confederate retreat to Virginia.
- 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, …
- Elon J. Farnsworth
Elon John Farnsworth (July 30, 1837 - July 3, 1863) was a Union Army cavalry general in the American Civil War, killed at the Battle of Gettysburg.
- Lewis Addison Armistead
Lewis Addison Armistead (February 18, 1817 - July 5, 1863) was a Confederate brigadier general in the American Civil War, mortally wounded in Pickett's Charge at the Battle of Gettysburg.
- James J. Archer
James Jay Archer (December 19, 1817 - October 24, 1864) was a lawyer and an officer in the United States Army during the Mexican-American War and in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. Taken as a prisoner of war at the Battle of Gettysburg, Archer was the first general captured from Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia.
- Richard B. Garnett
Richard Brooke Garnett (November 21, 1817 - July 3, 1863) was a career U.S. Army officer and a Confederate general in the American Civil War, killed during Pickett's Charge at the Battle of Gettysburg.
- William Corby
Rev. William Corby, CSC (1833-1897) was a priest of the Congregation of Holy Cross. Perhaps best known for his giving general absolution to the Irish Brigade on the second day of the Battle of Gettysburg, Fr. Corby also served twice as President of the University of Notre Dame. The school's Corby Hall is named after him. Widely remembered among military chaplains and celebrated by Irish-American fraternal organizations, …
- Roy Stone
Roy Stone (October 16, 1836 - August 5, 1905) was an army officer during the American Civil War. He is most noted for his stubborn defense of the McPherson Farm during the Battle of Gettysburg. Stone was born in Plattsburg, New York, to Ithiel V. and Sarah Stone. His family had been among the early settlers of the region, and his father owned a large estate. As a young man, he was an engineer and lumberman before the Civil War.
- Arthur Fremantle
General Sir Arthur James Lyon Fremantle, GMCG, CB (November 1835 - 25 September 1901) was a British soldier, a member of Her Majesty's Coldstream Guards, and a notable British witness to the Battle of Gettysburg during the American Civil War. Whilst holding the rank of lieutenant colonel he spent three months (from April 2 until July 16 1863) in North America, traveling through parts of the Confederate States of America and the Union.
- Joseph R. Davis
Joseph Robert Davis (1825-1896) was a Confederate general during the American Civil War and nephew of Confederate President Jefferson Davis. His troops played an important role in the Battle of Gettysburg. Davis was born in Mississippi becoming a lawyer and Mississippi state senator. Before the war, he led a local militia company. He entered Confederate service in the spring of 1861 as a captain in the 10th Mississippi Infantry.
- Junius Daniel
Junius Daniel (June 27, 1828 - May 13, 1864) was a planter and career military officer, serving in the United States Army, then in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. A brigadier general, his troops were instrumental in the Confederates' first day's success at the Battle of Gettysburg. He was killed in action at the Battle of Spotsylvania Court House.
- Harry T. Hays
Harry Thompson Hays (April 14, 1820 - August 21, 1876) was an American Civil War brigadier general who served in the Army of Northern Virginia. His brigade, the fabled "Louisiana Tigers", played a key role in the Battle of Gettysburg, where they ascended Culp's Hill in the darkness and overran several artillery batteries before finally being driven off for lack of support.
- 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.
- Joseph B. Kershaw
Joseph Brevard Kershaw (January 5, 1822 - April 13, 1894) was a lawyer, judge, and a Confederate general in the American Civil War. Kershaw was born at Camden, South Carolina, admitted to the bar in 1843, and was a member of the South Carolina Senate from 1852 to 1856. At the start of the Civil War he commanded the 2nd South Carolina Volunteer Infantry regiment and took part in the First Battle of Bull Run. He was commissioned brigadier general on February 13, 1862, …
- Andrew Gregg Curtin
Andrew Gregg Curtin (April 22, 1817 - October 7, 1894) was a U.S. lawyer and politician who served as Governor of Pennsylvania during the American Civil War. Curtin was born in Bellefonte, Pennsylvania. He attended Dickinson College and the Dickinson School of Law and was employed as a lawyer. His first public office was as Secretary of the Commonwealth. In 1855, Governor James Pollock appointed him as Superintendent of Public Schools.
- Alexander S. Webb
Alexander Stewart Webb (February 15, 1835 - February 12, 1911) was a career U.S. Army officer and a Union general in the American Civil War who won the Medal of Honor for gallantry at the Battle of Gettysburg. After the war, he was president of the City College of New York for thirty-three years.
- George T. Anderson
George Thomas Anderson (February 3, 1824 - April 4, 1901) was a general in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. Nicknamed "Tige," Anderson was noted as one of Robert E. Lee's hardest-fighting subordinates. Anderson was born in Covington, Georgia, and attended Emory University before departing to serve as a lieutenant of Georgia cavalry during the Mexican-American War. He received a commission in the U.S. regular cavalry in 1855, only to resign in 1858.
- Henry Baxter
Henry Baxter (September 8, 1821 - December 30, 1873) was a general in the Union Army during the American Civil War. At the Battle of Gettysburg, his brigade resisted a Confederate assault from parts of Maj. Gen. Robert Rodes's division, slaughtering hundreds in a surprise attack on Colonel Alfred Iverson's brigade, and held the north flank of the Union position for much of the day before retiring due to lack of ammunition. He was wounded four times during the war.
- Jenny Wade
Mary Virginia "Ginnie" Wade (May 21, 1843 - July 3, 1863), a seamstress, was the only Gettysburg citizen killed during the Battle of Gettysburg. The house she was killed in is now a popular tourist attraction and museum. It is sometimes thought to be haunted by Ginnie herself and is one of the most well known supposed haunted houses in Gettysburg.
- Edward Porter Alexander
Edward Porter Alexander (May 26, 1835 - April 28, 1910) was an engineer, an officer in the U.S. Army, a Confederate general in the American Civil War, and later a railroad executive, planter, and author. He is best known as the officer in charge of the massive artillery bombardment preceding Pickett's Charge on the third day of the Battle of Gettysburg, …
- John B. Bachelder
John Badger Bachelder (1825 - December 22, 1894) was a portrait and landscape painter, lithographer, and photographer, but best known as the preeminent 19th century historian of the Battle of Gettysburg in the American Civil War. He was a dominant factor in the preservation and memorialization of the Gettysburg Battlefield in the latter part of the century.