A funeral for a hero
General MacArthur died at the age of 84 and is listed in this casualty report. He was honored with a state funeral, which he had helped to plan. With ceremonies that...
A perplexing situation
After the Emancipation Proclamation, the stream of slaves running to freedom swelled to a flood. Gen. W. Sooy Smith, who commanded Union troops in Tennessee, faced a...
A real Prince of a soldier
This portrait, one of many photographs of Civil War personalities taken by the Mathew Brady studio, is of Confederate Major General Prince Polignac. A French...
Abner Doubleday
On July 1, 1863, Major General Doubleday assumed command of the I Corps, when its commander, J. F. Reynolds, was killed.
An experienced general retires
In this letter sent to Secretary of War Simon Cameron on October 31, 1861, Winfield Scott<&ndash> general-in-chief of the Union Army<&ndash> requested retirement...
Black officers for black soldiers
Frederick Douglass and his son Lewis, the former sergeant major of the 54th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment, were among the 200 men who signed this petition to...
Brigadier General Colin Luther Powell
Born to Jamaican immigrant parents in Harlem, New York, in 1937, Colin Powell earned the Purple Heart and Bronze Star for action in Vietnam. Seen in this 1976...