CDV, General David Hunter

He accompanied President-Elect Lincoln on his train ride into Washington, D.C. in 1861

Wounded at the 1st Battle of Bull Run, Virginia, July 1861

He emancipated slaves in some of the southern states in 1862 without orders which caused quite a controversy!

Presided over the trial of the Lincoln conspirators and was chosen to accompany the body of Mr. Lincoln to Springfield, Illinois for burial in 1865!

(1802-86) His maternal grandfather was Richard Stockton, a signer of the Declaration of Independence. He graduated in the...  

CDV, General Samuel P. Heintzelman

Wounded during the First Battle of Bull Run, Virginia in 1861

(1805-80) Graduated in the West Point class of 1826. He won a brevet for gallantry in the Mexican War, and one for his services in the Southwest campaign, especially at Fort Yuma, California, on the Colorado River. He was promoted to rank of brigadier general on May 17, 1861, and wounded during the first battle of Bull Run. He commanded the 3rd Corps at Yorktown, Va., and at the battle of Seven Pines he was commended for his personal gallantry in rallying the retiring Union...  

CDV, General Ambrose E. Burnside

Commanded the Army of the Potomac at the Battle of Fredericksburg, Va.

United States Congressman & Senator from Rhode Island

Governor of Rhode Island

(1824-1881) Born at Liberty, Union County, Indiana, he was known as "Old Sideburns." He graduated in the West Point class of 1847, and served in the Mexican War. Seeing action on the western frontier, he was wounded in a skirmish with Apache Indians in 1849. He resigned his commission in 1853, he invented a breech loading rifle, was appointed a Major General of the Rhode...  

CDV General John E. Wool

The oldest officer, Union or Confederate, to actively command troops during the Civil War!

Mathew Brady view

(1784-1869) Born at Newburgh, New York, Wool was the oldest officer to have active command on either the North or the South during the Civil War. He served in the War of 1812 gaining the rank of colonel and inspector general of the army. In 1826, he was brevetted brigadier general for meritorious service, and in 1841 was promoted to full brigadier general of the line. He participated in moving the Cherokee Indians from their...  

CDV Major Robert Anderson

Union commander at Fort Sumter, Charleston Harbor, South Carolina

Photograph taken on February 8, 1861

(1805-1871) Born near Louisville, Kentucky, the son of a lieutenant colonel of the Continental Line in the American Revolution, Anderson graduated in the West Point class of 1825. He participated in the Black Hawk and Florida Indian Wars, in the Mexican War, and was twice brevetted for gallantry. Promoted to rank of major in 1857, he was ordered to Charleston Harbor in November 1860 to take command of the three United States forts...  

CDV General Samuel P. Heintzelman

Wounded at the 1st Battle of Bull Run in July 1861

(1805-80) Graduated in the West Point class of 1826. He won a brevet for gallantry in the Mexican War and one for his services in the Southwest, especially at Fort Yuma, California, on the Colorado River. He was promoted to rank of brigadier general on May 17, 1861, and wounded during the first battle of Bull Run. He commanded the 3rd Corps at Yorktown, and at Seven Pines he was commended for his personal gallantry in rallying the retiring Union troops. He also served in the 7 Days Battles...  

CDV General David Hunter

Presided over the trial of the President Lincoln conspirators and was chosen to accompany the body of Mr. Lincoln to Springfield, Illinois for burial in 1865!

Photograph by Mathew Brady

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(1802-86) Graduated in the West Point class of 1822. Hunter was invited by President Elect Abraham Lincoln to travel with him on the inaugural train to Washington in February 1861. Selected for high command by President Lincoln himself, Hunter became the 4th highest ranking officer in the volunteer army. His field service...  

CDV General Irvin McDowell

Commanded the Union army at the 1st battle of Bull Run in July 1861

(1818-1885) Graduated in the West Point class of 1838. From 1841 to 1845 he taught tactics at the United States Military Academy, and many of the students he taught went on to become Confederate generals who haunted him on the battlefields of the Civil War. He was awarded the rank of brevet captain for gallantry at the battle of Buena Vista during the Mexican War. He was appointed brigadier general on May 14, 1861. By July, political pressure demanded an advance by his half...  

CDV, General George B. McClellan

Commander in Chief of the Union Army

Lost the 1864 Presidential election to President Abraham Lincoln

Governor of New Jersey

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(1826-85) Graduated in the West Point class of 1846, and fought in the Mexican War. Hailed at the beginning of the Civil War as the "Young Napoleon," he proved to be a brilliant military organizer, administrator, and trainer of men, but an officer totally lacking in the essential qualities of successful command of large forces in battle. He saw action at Rich...  

CDV, General Ambrose E. Burnside

United States Congressman from Rhode Island

Governor of Rhode Island

(1824-1881) Born in Liberty, Union County, Indiana, he graduated in the West Point class of 1847, and was a Mexican War veteran. Serving on the western frontier, he was wounded in a skirmish with Apaches in 1849. He resigned his commission in 1853, invented a breech loading rifle, was appointed a Major General of the Rhode Island State Militia and was elected to Congress as a Democrat. At the outbreak of the Civil War, he organized the 1st Rhode Island Infantry,...  

CDV, General Franz Sigel

(1824-1902) He was born in Baden, Germany, and graduated from a military academy at Karlsruhe in 1843, and became a subaltern in the service of Grand Duke Leopold. During the 1848 insurrections he acted as Minister of War for the revolutionary forces which were overthrown by the Prussians, and fled to New York in 1852. During the years before the Civil War he taught school and held a major's commission in the 5th New York Militia. Sigel was appointed brigadier general on August 7, 1861, and major general on March 22, 1862. Despite his military...  

CDV, General George B. McClellan & Wife

(1826-85) Graduated in the West Point class of 1846, and fought in the Mexican War. Hailed at the beginning of the Civil War as the "Young Napoleon," he proved to be a brilliant military organizer, administrator, and trainer of men, but an officer totally lacking in the essential qualities of successful command of large forces in battle. He saw action at Rich Mountain, in the 1862 Virginia Peninsular campaign, and at the battle of Antietam, the bloodiest single day in American military history. He was the Democratic nominee for president in...