Ormsby MacKnightMitchel was an American astronomer, polymath, and major general in the American Civil War.
The Army of the James was a Union Army that was composed of units from the Department of Virginia and North Carolina and served along the James River during the final operations of the American Civil War in Virginia.
Quincy Adams Gillmore was an American civil engineer, author, and a general in the Union Army during the American Civil War. He was noted for his actions in the Union victory at Fort Pulaski, where his modern rifled artillery readily pounded the fort's exterior stone walls, an action that essentially rendered stone fortifications obsolete. He earned an international reputation as an organizer of siege operations and helped revolutionize the use of naval gunnery.
The Department of Virginia and North Carolina was a United States Military department encompassing Union-occupied territory in the Confederate States during the Civil War. In 1863 it was formed by the merging of two previously existing departments: the Department of Virginia and the Department of North Carolina. In 1865 the two departments were once again separated.
Robert Sanford Foster was an American officer. He served as a Union general during the American Civil War. He played a prominent role in the Siege of Petersburg and the Appomattox Campaign.
The 67th Ohio Infantry Regiment was an infantry regiment in the Union Army during the American Civil War.
John Lyman Chatfield (1826-1863) was a Union Army colonel in the American Civil War. He was mortally wounded while assaulting Fort Wagner, South Carolina on July 18, 1863, and died on August 9, 1863.
The 9th Maine Infantry Regiment was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.
The 4th New Hampshire Infantry Regiment was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.
John Wesley Turner was a career U.S. Army officer who rose through the ranks as an artillery commander and staff officer during the American Civil War, becoming a Union Army general. Turner took a prominent part in the Appomattox Campaign and early in Congressional Reconstruction was responsible for forces occupying the Department of Virginia. After his retirement from the Army as head of the depot and commissary in St. Louis, Missouri, Turner remained in the city and became a leading citizen and public works commissioner.
The 6th Connecticut Infantry Regiment was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.
The Department of the South was a military department of the United States Army that existed in several iterations in the 19th century during and after the American Civil War.
The 85th Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.
The 48th New York Infantry Regiment was an infantry regiment in the Union Army during the American Civil War.
The 76th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.
The 9th United States Colored Infantry was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War. The regiment was composed of African American enlisted men commanded by white officers and was authorized by the Bureau of Colored Troops which was created by the United States War Department on May 22, 1863.
3rd Rhode Island Heavy Artillery Regiment was a heavy artillery regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.
The 142nd New York Infantry Regiment was an infantry regiment in the Union Army during the American Civil War.
The 117th New York Infantry Regiment was an infantry regiment in the Union Army during the American Civil War.
The 40th Regiment, Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry Regiment was a three-year infantry regiment of the Union Army that served in the Department of Virginia and North Carolina, the Army of the Potomac, and the Department of the South during the American Civil War.
