A newspaper publisher he edited The Liberator, a strong and influential voice of abolition begun in 1831. He opposed the war until after Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation.

Editor and politician, Horace Greeley was a considerable influence during the Civil War era. He founded the New York Tribune in 1841 which became a powerful voice for organized labor and an opponent of slavery. After the war he was one of the signers of Jefferson Davis' bail, an act which cost his paper almost half its subscribers.

Civil war photographer and famous portrait photographer.

Abolitionist author from Connecticut. The author of the novel Uncle Tom's Cabin, which had sold over a million copies by the beginning of the Civil War.

Poet from New York City. At the end of 1862 he visited the Washington hospitals in search of his wounded brother who had already recovered and returned to duty. He stayed to help the sick and wounded and in the process gathered material for his Drum Taps.

Confederate General from Louisiana. He served in the Mexican War as an engineer. In 1861 he was sent to Charleston where he commanded the attack on Fort Sumter. He was dubbed the "Hero of Sumter". He was given command of the Confederate forces near Manassas Junction. After the war he was a railroad president. He published Report on the Defenses of Charleston (1864) and A Commentary on the Campaign and Battle of Manassas (1891).

Confederate General from Kentucky. He fought at Fredericksburg and was badly wounded at Gettysburg. Then at Chickamauga he lost his right leg. Hood was a success as a division commander, but proved a dismal failure as head of the Army of Tennessee. After the war he lived in New Orleans and was a prosperous merchant. He died in 1879 in a yellow fever epidemic.

Confederate General from Virginia. Next to Robert E. Lee, Jackson is the most revered of all Confederate soldiers. A graduate of West Point, he served in the Mexican War. He commanded the Army of the Shenandoah, the Army of the Potomac, and the Army of Northern Virginia.

Confederate General from Virginia. A capable army commander who was handicapped by his feud with President Davis.

Confederate Commander-In-Chief from Virginia. One of history's most distinguished generals. He graduated second in his class at West Point. In 1859 he was called upon to lead a group to put an end to John Brown's Harpers Ferry Raid. The end of the Confederacy came when Lee was unable to destroy the Army of the Potomac at Gettysburg and was forced to retreat into Virginia. After the war he served as President of Washington College (now Washington and Lee University) in Lexington, Virginia until his death on October 22, 1870.