A Fine Selection of Manuscripts and Documents - Session 2

JOHN L. CLEM: (1851 - 1937) "The Drummer Boy of Chickamauga". Clem "enlisted" as a drummer at the age of nine, is created with k...

THOMAS L. CLINGMAN: (1812 - 1897) Confederate brigadier general who commanded a brigade at the Wilderness and fought at Drewry's Bluff, Cold Har...

JOHN A. DAHLGREN: (1809 - 1870) Union rear admiral and inventor of the cannon which bore his name. He also commanded the South Atlantic Blockading Squ

(JEFFERSON C. DAVIS): (1828 - 1879) Union brigadier general who was in Fort Sumter at the start of the war. He killed Major General William Nelson ove

SAMUEL F. DU PONT: (1803 - 1865) Union admiral who commanded the South Atlantic Blockading Squadron who was instrumental in the taking of Port Royal a

THOMAS THOMPSON ECKERT: (1825 - 1910) Union telegraph officer assigned to the War Department who worked closely on a daily basis with Lincoln. Lincoln

DAVID G. FARRAGUT: (1801 - 1870) Union rear admiral instrumental in the taking of New Orleans and the Union control of the Mississippi. It was at Mobi

JOHN C. FREMONT: (1813 - 1890) "The Pathfinder", explorer of the western frontier and Union army major general until sacked by Lincoln for...

ETHAN A. HITCHCOCK: (1798 - 1870) Union major general who served as Commissioner for the Exchange of War Prisoners and Commissary General of Prisoners

JOSEPH HOOKER: (1814 - 1879) Union major general who commanded the Army of the Potomac only to be defeated at the hands of Stonewall Jackson at Chance