This fabulous work of reference provides fascinating and concise biographies of the most significant military leaders who served on land and water during the Civil War, 1861-1865. Presented alphabetically, the biographies in this profusely illustrated, handsome volume highlight the leaders’ most important campaigns and battles, and their rise through the ranks. In all, more than 300 commanders, North and South, are covered, ranging from the world renowned to less well known, including the following brief list of examples: Ames, General Adelbert Banks, Major General Nathaniel Beauregard, General Pierre Gustave Toutant Berdan, General HiramBragg, General Braxton Breckinridge, General John C.Cleburne, Major General Patrick B. Cooke, Brigadier General John Rogers Custer, Brevet General George Armstrong Dahlgren, Admiral John Dow, Brigadier General Neil Early, Lieutenant General Jubal A. Ewell, Lieutenant General Richard S. Farragut, Admiral David Glasgow Forrest.It also includes: Lieutenant General Nathan Bedford Garnett, Brigadier General Richard Brooke Grant, General Ulysses Simpson Hancock, Major General Winfield ScottHooker, General Joseph Ingalls, General Rufus Jackson, General Thomas Jonathan Johnston, General Albert Sidney Kilpatrick, Major General Judson Lee, General Robert Edward Longstreet, Lieutenant General James McClellan, General George Meade, Major General George G. Mosby, Colonel John Singleton Northrop, Brigadier General Lucius B. Ord, Major General E. O. C. Patrick, Brigadier General Marsena R. Pickett, Major General George Porter, Lieutenant David D. Randolph, Brigadier General George Wythe Robertson, Brigadier General Jerome Bonaparte Scott, Lieutenant General Winfield Semmes, Captain Raphael Stuart, Major General James Ewell Brown Terrill, Brigadier General James B. Thomas, Major General George H. Van Dorn, General Earl C.Wheeler, Major General Joseph Wirz, Major Henry Wood, and Brigadier General John E.
