Naval commander who won the battle of Mobile Bay and leading through the mines there
David Farragut
New York newspaper editor who tried to negotiate peace with the Confederates at Niagara Falls in 1864
Horace Greeley
Confederate cavalry leader accused of atrocities against black soldiers at Fort Pillow
Nathan Bedford Forrest
Confederate commander who surrendered at Vicksburg
John C. Pemberton
Commander of Union river fleet in the Vicksburg campaign
David Dixon Porter
Union general blamed for letting Lee escape across the Potomac after Gettysburg
George B. Meade
Union general who maneuvered the Army of the Cumberland to push the Confederate army to Chattanooga and then into Georgia. Unfortunately, he lost the battle of Chickamauga and was then removed from command.
William Rosecrans
Prickly Confederate general who won the battle of Chickamauga but couldn't build on that success and lost at Chattanooga
Braxton Bragg
Union general who held back the Confederates for a time at Chickamauga and whose men made an amazing assault on Missionary Ridge
George Thomas
General put in charge of the Union cavalry in 1864
Philip Sheridan
Union general who was supposed to cut off Lee's communications in the Shenandoah Valley but who failed miserably
Franz Sigel
Union colonel who devised an assault at the Mule Shoe to break through the Confederate trenches at Spotsylvania
Emory Upton
Confederate general who kept retreating in the face of Sherman's advances in Georgia. He was ultimately replaced for a more aggressive general
Joseph E. Johnston
Confederate general who was defeated in Georgia and then retreated into Tennessee where he was defeated at the battle of Franklin
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