Facts

Key facts about Major General James G. Blunt, a prominent Union officer who served in the Trans-Mississippi Theater of the American Civil War.

Key facts about ardent abolitionist John Brown.

Key facts about James Buchanan, fifteenth President of the United States.

Key facts about Union General John Buford.

Key facts about Benjamin F. Butler, a United States Congressman and Governor of Massachusetts who was also a prominent Union officer during the Civil War.

Key facts about U.S. Senator, Secretary of State and Vice President John C. Calhoun.

Key facts about Major General Edward R. Canby, a career United States Army officer who commanded the victorious Union troops during the Battle of Fort Blakely.

Key facts about the Confederate Central Army of Kentucky.

Key facts about Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain a Union military commander who earned the Congressional Medal of Honor for his heroics at the Battle of Gettysburg.

Key facts about Salmon P. Chase, the twenty-third Governor of Ohio, U.S. Senator, U.S. Secretary of the Treasury during the Civil War, and sixth Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.

Key facts about John M. Chivington, an ordained Methodist minister and Union officer known as the "Fighting Parson."

Key facts about the Civil Rights Act of 1866.

Key facts about Charles Clark, a brigadier general in the Confederate Army and governor of Mississippi during the American Civil War.

Key facts about Major General Patrick Ronayne Cleburne, one of the Confederacy's leading general officers in the Western Theater of the American Civil War.

Key facts about John Clem, also known as Johnny Shiloh and the Drummer Boy of Chickamauga.

Key facts about the House Committee of Thirty-three.

Key facts about the Compromise of 1850.

Key facts about the Confiscation Act of 1861, also known as the First Confiscation Act.

Key facts about the Confiscation Act of 1862, also known as the Second Confiscation Act.

Key facts about the 1862 Siege of Corinth.