Civil War
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Overview Essay
Prelude to War, Abolitionism and Antislavery
- American Anti-Slavery Society
- Antislavery
- Brown, John
- Confederate States of America
- Douglass, Frederick
- Fugitive Slave Act
- Garrison, William Lloyd
- Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854)
- Lincoln-Douglas Debates
- Missouri Compromise (1820)
- Parker, John P.
- States' Rights
- The Compromise of 1850
- Truth, Sojourner
- Tubman, Harriet
- Uncle Tom's Cabin
Political Figures
- Chase, Salmon Portland
- Davis, Jefferson
- Delany, Martin Robinson
- Douglas, Stephen Arnold
- Foote, Henry Stuart
- Langston, John Mercer
- Lincoln, Abraham
- Seward, William Henry
- Sherman, John
- Stanton, Edwin McMasters
- Sumner, Charles
Military Leaders/Union
- Burnside, Ambrose Everett
- Chamberlain, Joshua Lawrence
- Farragut, David Glasgow
- Foote, Andrew Hull
- Grant, Ulysses S.
- Halleck, Henry Wager
- McClellan, George B.
- McDowell, Irvin
- Meade, George Gordon
- Shaw, Robert Gould
- Sheridan, Philip Henry
- Sherman, William Tecumseh
Military Leaders/Confederate
- Beauregard, Pierre Gustave Toutant
- Bragg, Braxton
- Gordon, John Brown
- Hood, John Bell
- Jackson, Thomas Jonathan
- Johnston, Joseph Eggleston
- Lee, Robert E.
- Longstreet, James
- Maury, Matthew Fontaine
- Page, Thomas Jefferson
- Pike, Albert
- Quantrill, William Clarke
- Smith, Edmund Kirby
- Stuart, J. E. B.
- Taylor, Richard
- Wise, Henry Alexander
Financiers and Industrialists
- Anderson, Joseph Reid
- Ames, Oakes
- du Pont, Henry
- Field, Cyrus West
- Forbes, John Murray
- Haupt, Herman
- McCallum, Daniel Craig
- Peabody, George
- Seligman, Joseph
Recorders of and Witnesses to the War
- Alcott, Louisa May
- Barton, Clara
- Bierce, Ambrose Gwinnett
- Brady, Mathew B.
- Brown, William Wells
- Crane, Stephen
- Davis, Varina Anne Jefferson
- Dickinson, Emily
- Emerson, Ralph Waldo
- Homer, Winslow
- Melville, Herman
- Nast, Thomas
- Whitman, Walt
Battles
- Antietam, Battle of
- Bull Run, Battle of
- Fredericksburg, Battle of
- Gettysburg, Battle of
- Shiloh, Battle of
- Vicksburg, Battle of
