- Ronald F. Maxwell
Ronald F. Maxwell (born January 3, 1947) is an independent film director and writer from Clifton, New Jersey. He is most famous for directing the American Civil War epics "Gettysburg" (1993) and "Gods and Generals" (2003). A New Jersey native, Maxwell graduated from New York University (NYU) Institute of Film in the late 1960s and is a member of the Writers Guild of America, Directors Guild of America and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. - 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. - Stephen Lang
Stephen Lang (born July 11, 1952 in New York City) is an American film actor who started in theatre on Broadway. He is currently co-artistic director (along with Carlin Glynn and Lee Grant) of the famed Actor's Studio at its headquarters in New York City. He is currently represented by Innovative Artists. Lang played one of Dustin Hoffman's sons (Happy) in the Broadway revival of "Death of a Salesman" in 1985, and appeared in the first Hannibal Lecter film, … - Gabor Boritt
Gabor Boritt is the Robert Fluhrer Professor of Civil War Studies and Director of the Civil War Institute at Gettysburg College. Born in World War II Hungary, he participated as a teenager in the 1956 revolution against the Soviet Union. He escaped to the United States, where he received his higher education and became one of the finest Lincoln scholars. His life story is soon to be the subject of a feature-length documentary film titled "Budapest to Gettysburg". - Richard Jordan
Richard Anson Jordan was a Golden Globe-winning Harvard-educated American stage, screen and film actor. He was a long-time member of the New York Shakespeare Festival, and appeared in many Off Broadway and Broadway plays. His films include "Logan's Run", "Old Boyfriends", "Les Misérables", "Raise the Titanic!", "The Friends of Eddie Coyle", "The Yakuza", "The Bunker", "Dune", "The Secret of My Success", … - 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, … - 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, … - MacKinlay Kantor
MacKinlay Kantor was an American novelist and screenwriter who won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1956 for his novel "Andersonville". Kantor was born in Webster City, Iowa. He published his first poem at the age of 17, and at 18 he won a state story writing contest. His first novel, "Diversey", was about Chicago gangsters and was written in 1928, when the subject matter was contemporary. - 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. - James Patrick Stuart
James Patrick Stuart (b. June 16 1968, Encino, California) is an American film and television actor. He is known mostly for his work on television shows such as "CSI", "Andy Richter Controls the Universe" and "Still Standing" and voice acting in video games such as "Kingdom Hearts II" as Xigbar the Freeshooter and "Call of Duty 2: Big Red One". - Maxwell Caulfield
Maxwell Caulfield (born on November 23, 1959) is a Scottish-American actor, known for his roles in film, television and on stage. - Royce D. Applegate
Royce D. Applegate, also Roy Applegate (December 25, 1939 - January 1, 2003), was an American actor. Born in Oklahoma, his most visible role was as security Chief Manilow Crocker on the first season of the Steven Spielberg-produced television series "seaQuest DSV" (1993-6). Applegate portrayed Confederate General James L. Kemper in two Ronald F. Maxwell movies, "Gettysburg" (1993) and "Gods and Generals" (2003). - 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. - Andrew Prine
Andrew Lewis Prine (born February 14,1936 in Jennings, Florida) is an American film, stage, and television actor. His first important film role was as Helen Keller's older brother James in "The Miracle Worker" (1962) and became somewhat famous playing rodeo rider Andy Guthrie the TV show "Wide Country". He married Sharon Farrell in 1962, but she left him the same year for actor Vince Edwards. - John R. Brooke
John Rutter (or Ruller) Brooke (July 21 1838 - September 5 1926) was a Major General in the United States Army during both the American Civil War and the Spanish American War. He served as a military Governor of Puerto Rico and Governor of Cuba. Brooke was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and was educated in nearby Collegeville and West Chester. His military career began when he joined the 4th Pennsylvania Infantry with the rank of captain in 1861. - William T. Wofford
William Tatum Wofford (June 28, 1824 - May 22, 1884) was a general in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. Wofford was born in Habersham County, Georgia to William H. Wofford and Nancy M. Tatum, and became a lawyer, state legislator, and editor of the Cassville, Georgia, "Standard". He voted against secession, but offered his service to the Confederate Army, … - Peter G. Tsouras
Peter G. Tsouras is a military historian and author. Tsouras served in the United States Army and retired with the rank of Lieutenant Colonel. He served in armor, military intelligence, and civil affairs assignments. He currently works as a senior analyst with the Battelle Corporation and resides in Alexandria, Virginia. - Thomas H. Carter
Thomas Henry Carter (June 13, 1831 - June 2, 1908) was an artillery officer in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. His battalion played an important role in the Battle of Gettysburg. Carter was a member of an old and distinguished Virginia family, born the third of five children to Thomas Nelson Carter and Juliet (Gaines) Carter in King William County. His father was a first cousin to Robert E. Lee, … - Charles S. Roberts
Charles S. Roberts is a wargame designer. He is renowned as "The Father of Board Wargaming", having created the first modern wargame (a boardgame) in 1952, and the first wargaming company in 1954. Roberts created the first board wargame, "Tactics", in an apartment in Catonsville, Maryland in 1952. In 1954, out of a garage in Avalon, Maryland, he began selling it via mail-order as The Avalon Game Company, which later become Avalon Hill. - William Watson
William Watson (1837-1879), was a surgeon in the 105th Regiment of Pennsylvania Volunteers during the American Civil War. During his duty in the Army of the Potomac, he took part in several battles including Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, the Wilderness, and Gettysburg notably. Major Watson is recognized most by his contribution to the understanding of soldier life during the Civil War, … - Brian Mallon
Brian Mallon (b.May 12,1952 Detroit, Michigan) is an Irish-American film and theater actor; he speaks Gaeilge and Welsh. Mallon is primarily a stage actor, having performed on both sides of the Atlantic. He won acclaim for his one-man show, "Secrets of the Celtic Heart", directed by Ellen Burstyn, which he performed in Britain and Ireland in the early 1990s. - Harry Gilmor
Harry W. Gilmor (January 24, 1838 - March 4, 1883) served as Baltimore City Police Commissioner in the 1870's, but he was most noted as a Confederate cavalry officer during the American Civil War. His daring raids gained his partisans fame as "Gilmor's Raiders." Gilmor was born at "Glen Ellen," the family estate in Baltimore County, Maryland. He was the son of Robert Gilmor and Miss Ellen Ward, daughter of Judge William H. Ward. Harry was the fifth of eleven children. - Samuel Simon Schmucker
Samuel Simon Schmucker (February 28, 1799-1873) was a German-American Lutheran pastor and theologian. He was integral to the founding of the Lutheran church body known as the General Synod, as well as the oldest continously-operating Lutheran seminary and college in North America. Later in his career, Schmucker became a controversial figure because of his theological positions, in particular his approach to the Lutheran Confessions. - Joseph Fuqua
Joseph Fuqua (born May 3, 1962 in Washington, D.C.) is an American actor. Joseph received his acting training at Yale Drama School and spent a little over two years acting and auditioning in New York before moving to California for film and television work. He is perhaps best known for his role as J.E.B. Stuart in the films "Gettysburg" and "Gods and Generals". He has guest starred in popular television series such as "The X-Files", … - John Rothman
John Rothman (June 3, 1949 -) is an American film, television, and stage actor born in Baltimore, Maryland. Rothman portrayed Union General John F. Reynolds in "Gettysburg" (1993). He has appeared on such shows as "Guiding Light", "Law & Order" and "Arrested Development". Rothman also appeared in such comedic movies as "Ghostbusters" (1984), "Big" (1988), "Jingle All the Way" (1996), "Say It Isn't So" (2001), … - Henry Thomas Harrison
Henry Thomas Harrison (1832 - October 28, 1923), known to most simply as "Harrison", was a spy for Confederate Lt. Gen. James Longstreet during the American Civil War. He is most well known for the information he gave Longstreet and Gen. Robert E. Lee in the Gettysburg Campaign, which as a result, convinced Lee to converge on Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, thus causing the Battle of Gettysburg. - Ranald S. MacKenzie
Ranald Slidell Mackenzie (July 27, 1840 - January 19, 1889) was called the most promising young officer in the entire Union army. He was famous for his service in the American Civil War and the following Indian Wars. Mackenzie was born in Westchester County, New York, the nephew of Confederate States of America diplomat John Slidell and the brother of Lt. Commander Alexander Slidell MacKenzie, U.S. Navy. - George Hillyer
George Hillyer (March 17, 1835 - October 2,1927) was an American politician, serving as mayor of Atlanta, Georgia, as well as a state assemblyman and senator. He was also an officer in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. Hillyer was born in Athens, Georgia, one of eight children of Judge Junius Hillyer, a United States Congressman and solicitor of the U.S. Treasury. He graduated from Mercer University in 1854, studied law, and, starting in 1857, … - Samuel W. Pennypacker
Samuel Whitaker Pennypacker (9 April 1843 - 2 September 1916) was governor of Pennsylvania from 1903 to 1907. Pennypacker's early education was interrupted several times before he answered a call to arms by Governor Andrew Curtin during the Gettysburg Campaign of the American Civil War. He enlisted as a private in Company F of the 26th Pennsylvania Volunteer Militia and trained at Camp Curtin. He fought in the skirmish at Witmer Farm, north of Gettysburg on June 26 1863, … - John Mansfield
John Mansfield (August 1822 - May 6, 1896) was California's Lieutenant Governor from 1880 to 1883. He also was an officer in the Union Army during the American Civil War, serving as the last colonel of the 2nd Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry Regiment of the famed Iron Brigade. Mansfield responded to President Lincoln's call to arms in 1861 following the secession of the eleven Southern states that comprised the Confederacy. - Baird Tipson
Baird Tipson , Washington College's 26th president and a scholar of American religious and intellectual history, is now in his fourth year at the helm of the first college founded in the new nation. Throughout his career in higher education as a teacher, scholar, administrator and fundraiser, he has demonstrated a passion for the liberal arts. - Augustus van Horne Ellis
Augustus van Horne Ellis (May 1, 1827-July 2, 1863) was a [Brevet (military)|brevet]] brigadier general on the Union side during the Civil War. A.V.H. Ellis was born in New York City. Ellis attended Columbia University.<sup>1</sup> Prior to the outbreak of the Civil War, he was a lawyer in New York City. At some point, he moved to California where he became a fireman, and later, a sea captain. - Albion P. Howe
Albion Parris Howe (March 13 1818 - January 25 1897) was a Union Army general in the American Civil War. Howe was born in Standish, Maine, in 1818. He graduated from the U.S. Military Academy in 1841. After serving in the 4th Artillery for two years, he taught mathematics at the U.S. Military Academy for 3 years. Howe served in the Mexican-American War and won a brevet promotion for gallantry during Winfield Scott's advance upon Mexico City. - W. Morgan Sheppard
William Morgan Sheppard (sometimes credited as W. Morgan Sheppard) is a British actor born in London to an Anglo Irish family but educated in Ireland. He graduated from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art 1956-58 before spending 12 years as Associate Artist with the Royal Shakespeare Company. He appeared on Broadway in 1966 with "Marat-Sade" and later in 1975 with "Sherlock Holmes". - Włodzimierz Krzyżanowski
Włodzimierz Bonawentura Krzyżanowski (July 8, 1824 - January 31, 1887) was a Polish military leader and a Union general in the American Civil War. - John Codman Ropes
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 merchant of Boston who was engaged in business in Russia. At the age of fourteen, his family having meantime returned to Massachusetts, he developed an affection of the spine which eventually became a permanent deformity. His courage and energy, however, did not allow him to yield to his affliction. - Roswell Lamson
Roswell Hawkes Lamson (about 1840 - 14 August 1903) was an officer in the United States Navy during the American Civil War. Born in Iowa, Lamson was appointed to the United States Naval Academy on 20 September 1858. After graduating in 1862, he saw action in the Civil War. He commanded USS "Mount Vernon" in joint Army-Navy operations on the Wansemont River, and he played an important role in the capture of batteries at Hills Point. - Edward Lloyd Thomas
Edward Lloyd Thomas (March 23, 1825 - March 8, 1898) was a Confederate general during the American Civil War from the state of Georgia. Born in Clarke County, Georgia, Thomas, a graduate of Emory College, served in the Mexican War and as a plantation farmer in Georgia prior to the outbreak of the War. When the War broke out, Thomas became colonel of the 35th Georgia Infantry in October 1861. - George Yates
George Walter Yates (February 26 1843 - June 25 1876) was an officer in the U.S. 7th Cavalry Regiment. He was killed with George Armstrong Custer in the Battle of the Little Bighorn. Yates was born in Albany, New York. He met Custer in Monroe, Michigan, and they became close personal friends. During the American Civil War, Yates was a second lieutenant in the 4th Michigan. Custer helped him secure a position on General Alfred Pleasonton's staff for Yates. - Orange Judd
Orange Judd (July 26 1822 - December 27 1892) was an American agricultural chemist, editor, and publisher. He was born of a rural family near Niagra Falls in Niagara County, New York. His grandfather, also named Orange Judd (1763-1844), came from Tyringham, Massachusetts and served as a private in the Berkshire Militia in the Northern Campaigns. His father, Ozias Judd, fought at Black Rock in 1813.
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