Union Military Leaders

President Abraham Lincoln

Ulysses S. Grant, Commander of Union Army

Union General Ambrose Burnside

Union General George McClellan

Union General George Meade

William Tecumseh Sherman

Confederate Military Leaders

Alexander Stephens, Vice President of the Confederate States of America

General Braxton Bragg

General Robert E. Lee

Jefferson Davis, President of Confederate States of America

General Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson

Pierre Goustave Toutant Beauregard

Fort Sumter

A line of cannons underneath an overhang at Fort Sumter

Confederate soldiers stand beneath Confederate Flag shortly after Union surrender

Damages to the exterior walls are still evident today at Fort Sumter

Fort Sumter, the site of the first engagement of the Civil War on April 12, 1861

Major Robert Anderson

Three soldiers stand behind cannons along the parapet of Fort Sumter

Battle of Bull Run

The two battles of Bull Run were fought near a small stream named Bull Run

The Battle of Bull Run left almost 5,000 wounded or dead

Hastily buried soldiers were marked with headboards in the mud after the Battle of Bull Run

A monument to Bull Run sits in front of the rebuilt Henry House at the Manassas National Battlefield Park

Ruins of Mrs. Judith Henry's house at Manassas, Virginia

Ruins of the railroad yard in Manassas, Virginia

Union soldiers from Company C of the 41st New York Infantry Regiment at camp near Bull Run

A statue of Confederate General Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson

A group of captured Union soldiers outside a cell at Castle Pickney

Union soldiers destroyed trains and railroad tracks during their retreat

Battle of Antietam

A memorial commemorating the 132nd Pennsylvania Regiment stands on 'Bloody Lane' at Antietam

'Bloody Lane' on the Antietam battlefield

Confederate soldiers lie dead after the Battle of Antietam

Headstones at the Antietam National Cemetery

President Abraham Lincoln meets with General George McClellan at Antietam

Several dead soldiers lying outside of Dunker Church

Dunker Church, an icon of the battlefield

Union physician Anson Hurd cared for wounded Confederate soldiers after the Battle of Antietam

Union soldiers stand guard around the grave of a compatriot, killed during the Battle of Antietam

Battle of Gettysburg

A broken fence and a pond near McPherson's Woods, the site of the first heavy fighting of the Battle of Gettysburg

A Confederate sharpshooter lies dead in a trench at Gettysburg

Statue of General George Meade

General Robert E. Lee headquarters

John Burns, the 'Old Hero of Gettysburg,' joined the Union forces at Gettysburg as a 70 year old

The New York Infantry monument, looking out onto Gettysburg battlefield

The Pennsylvania Monument on Cemetery Ridge at Gettysburg

Statue of Union General G.K. Warren

Three prisoners of war from the Confederate Army, captured in the Battle of Gettysburg

Total casualties numbered above 50,000 over the three days of the Battle of Gettysburg