| | Leader | Born | Died | Nickname | Image |
| Robert Anderson | 1805 | 1871 | .. | Defender of Ft. Sumter | civil160.jpg |
| Nathaniel P. Banks | 1816 | 1894 | .. | .. | banks.jpg |
| Clara Barton | 1821 | 1912 | .. | Founded American Red Cross | civil194.jpg |
| Pierre G. T. Beauregard | 1818 | 1893 | .. | After directing the bombardment of Fort Sumter | CIVIL138.JPG |
| Judah P. Benjamin | 1811 | 1884 | .. | Secretary of State | civil150.jpg |
| John Wilkes Booth | 1838 | 1865 | .. | Assassinated Lincoln in Ford's Theater | civil198.jpg |
| Braxton Bragg | 1817 | 1876 | .. | Unsuccessfully tried to invade KY with Army of Tennessee | bragg.jpg |
| John C. Breckinridge | 1821 | 1875 | .. | Democratic Presidential nominee | civil139.jpg |
| Simon Bolivar Buckner | 1823 | 1914 | .. | Grandfather of a WWII general of the same name who died at Okinawa | .. |
| Don Carlos Buell | 1818 | 1898 | .. | .. | buell.jpg |
| John Buford | 1826 | 1863 | .. | Chief of Cavalry; delayed Lee's arriving army at Gettysburg | .. |
| Ambrose E Burnside | 1824 | 1881 | .. | Better known for whiskers than strategic military abilities | burnside.jpg |
| Benjamin F. Butler | 1818 | 1893 | Beast | .. | civil162.jpg |
| John C. Calhoun | 1782 | 1850 | .. | the great defender of the agrarian South against the industrial North | .. |
| Simon Cameron | 1799 | 1889 | .. | Lincoln's first Secretary of War | cameron.jpg |
| Edward R.S. Canby | 1817 | 1873 | .. | Commander Dept of NM; later captured Mobile in 1865 | .. |
| Joshua Chamberlain | 1828 | 1914 | .. | Won Medal of Honor while commanding 20th ME at Little Round Top | chamber.jpg |
| Salmon P. Chase | 1808 | 1873 | .. | Secretary of the Treasury; Chief Justice | chase.jpg |
| Henry Clay | 1777 | 1852 | Great Pacificator | Pushed the Missouri Compromise (1820 through the House | .. |
| George A. Custer | 1839 | 1876 | .. | Youngest general in the Union army | custer.jpg |
| Jefferson Davis | 1808 | 1889 | .. | President of the Confederacy | civil151.jpg |
| Stephen A. Douglas | 1813 | 1861 | Little Giant | Defeated Lincoln in Senate election | civil186.jpg |
| Frederick Douglass | 1817 | 1895 | | Abolitionist; escaped from slavery to become anti-slavery editor and leader | CIVIL130.JPG |
| David Farragut | 1801 | 1870 | Damn the torpedoes full speed ahead! | Admiral | farragut.jpg |
| Millard Fillmore | 1800 | 1874 | .. | 13th president of the U.S | .. |
| Nathan Bedford Forrest | 1831 | 1877 | Get there first with the most men. | Cavalry commander and guerilla | forrest.jpg |
| John C. Fremont | 1813 | 1880 | Pathfinder of the West | .. | |
| James A Garfield | 1831 | 1881 | .. | General | .. |
| William Lloyd Garrison | 1805 | 1879 | .. | founded the Liberator in 1831 and for 35 years campaigned for immediate and complete abolition of slavery. | CIVIL131.JPG |
| Ulysses S. Grant | 1822 | 1885 | Unconditional Surrender | Captured Vicksburg | Grant.jpg |
| Horace Greeley | 1811 | 1872 | .. | Abolitionist | CIVIL132.JPG |
| Benjamin A. Grierson | 1826 | 1911 | .. | Led diversionary cavalry raid thru Mississippi during the Vicksburg campaign | .. |
| Henry W. Halleck | 1815 | 1872 | Old Brains | .. | halleck.jpg |
| Wade Hampton | 1818 | 1902 | .. | .. | .. |
| Winfield Scott Hancock | 1824 | 1886 | | .. | civil166.jpg |
| William J. Hardee | 1815 | 1873 | Old Reliable | .. | .. |
| Rutherford B Hayes | 1822 | 1893 | .. | General | .. |
| David Harvey Hill | 1821 | 1889 | .. | .. | .. |
| Ambrose P. Hill | 1825 | 1865 | .. | .. | civil141.jpg |
| Oliver Wendell Holmes | 1841 | 1935 | .. | Served as an officer at Antietam & Fredericksburg | .. |
| John Bell Hood | 1831 | 1879 | .. | .. | civil142.jpg |
| Joseph Hooker | 1814 | 1879 | Fightin Joe | Hero at Antietam; scapegoat at Chancellorsville | hooker.jpg |
| Oliver O. Howard | 1830 | 1909 | .. | .. | howard.jpg |
| Thomas J. Jackson | 1824 | 1863 | Stonewall | Lee's right arm; instructor at VMI | civil143.jpg |
| Andrew Johnson | 1808 | 1875 | .. | Vice president | civil187.jpg |
| Albert Sidney Johnston | 1803 | 1862 | .. | Confederate commander in the West | .. |
| Joseph Eggleston Johnston | 1807 | 1891 | .. | Given command in the West | civil144.jpg |
| Philip Kearny | 1814 | 1862 | .. | .. | .. |
| William Fitzhugh Lee | 1837 | 1891 | Rooney | .. | .. |
| Robert E. Lee | 1807 | 1870 | King of Spades | Master strategist | lee.jpg |