A Day in the Life of the Civil War

Confederate Colonel John Mercer Brockenbrough resigned his commission on January 21 st 1864. John Mercer Brockenbrough was born August...

Union Colonel Henry Walter Kingsbury died September 18 th 1862 from a wound he received the day before at the Battle of Antietam. Henr...

Confederate General Abner Monroe Perrin was killed at the Battle of Spotsylvania May 12 th 1864. Abner Monroe Perrin was born February...

Union General Henry Baxter was appointed Brigadier General March 12 th 1863 after being wounded at the Battle of Fredericksburg. Henry...

Confederate General Richard Griffith was mortally wounded at the Battle of Savage’s Station June 29th 1862 and died the same day. Richard...

Jonathan Letterman the “Father of Battlefield Medicine”, a Union surgeon during the Civil war was born December 11th 1824. Jonathan Lett...

Confederate General Ambrose Powell Hill, most commonly called AP Hill was born November 9th 1825. Ambrose Powell “A. P.” Hill was born N...

General George Gordon Meade was born December 31st 1815 in Cadiz Spain. George Gordon Meade was born to American parents December 31st 1815 ...

The Battle of Oak Grove in Virginia was the first of the Seven Days’ Battles which began on June 25th 1862. Oak Grove was an important loc...