Facts

Key facts about Thomas Corwin who sponsored the Corwin Amendment in the U.S, House of Representatives in 1861 as an eleventh-hour attempt to avert the American Civil War.

Key facts about Darius N. Couch, a prominent Union general during the American Civil War.

Key facts about Jacob D. Cox, a nineteenth century American political and military leader who served as a brigadier general in the U.S. volunteer army during the American Civil War.

Key facts about Samuel Cox, a prominent lawyer, newspaper editor, and Peace Democrat who represented Ohio and, later, New York in Congress.

Key facts about Samuel W. Crawford, a Union general officer who was possibly the only person present for the beginning of the American Civil War at Fort Sumter and for the surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia at Appomattox Court House.

Key facts about George B. Crittenden, a lieutenant colonel in the United States Army and a major general in the Provisional Confederate Army whose struggles with alcoholism led to his fall from grace during the Civil War.

Key facts about George Crook, a noted officer in the United States Army during the American Civil War and the Indian Wars in the American West during the last half of the nineteenth century.

Key facts about Major General Samuel R. Curtis who played a prominent role in securing and maintaining Federal control of the border state of Missouri throughout the American Civil War.

Key facts about General George Armstrong Custer who was a flamboyant and widely renowned American army officer during and after the American Civil War.

Key facts about Thomas Ward Custer who was twice awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor for gallantry during the Civil War.

Key facts about the Battle of Darbytown Road, also known as the Battle of Alms House.

Key facts about Confederate President Jefferson Davis.

Key facts about the First Battle of Deep Bottom.

Key facts about the Second Battle of Deep Bottom.

Key facts about William Dennison, Jr. who was the twenty-fourth Governor of Ohio and Postmaster General of the United States from 1864 to 1866.

Key facts about the Battle of Dinwiddie Court House.

Key facts about Abner Doubleday who was a career military officer and prominent Union general in the Eastern Theater of the American Civil War.

Important facts about Stephen A. Douglas, a three-term United States Senator who championed popular sovereignty and was influential in the enactment of the Compromise of 1850 and the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854.

Key facts about escaped slave and famous abolitionist Frederick Douglass.

Key facts about the Dred Scott v. Sandford U.S. Supreme Court case.