Encyclopedia of Civil War biographies / [edited by James M. McPherson].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

McPherson, James M.

Class of 1932 Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

History.

United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Biography--Encyclopedias, Juvenile.

United States.

Unites States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Biography.

Genre:

Biographies.

Encyclopedias.

Physical Description:

3 volumes (891 pages) : illustrations ; 29 cm

Other Title:

Civil War biographies

Place of Publication:

Armonk, NY : Sharpe Reference, [2000]

Summary:

Presents brief biographical sketches of nearly 400 soldiers, politicians, reformers, and other figures associated with the Civil War.

Contents:

Adams, Charles Francis

Adams, Henry

Allen, Robert

Ames, Adelbert

Ammen, Jacob

Anderson, George B.

Anderson, Joseph Reid

Anderson, Richard Henry

Anderson, Robert

Andrew, John Albion

Andrews, George Leonard

Andrews, James J.

Andrews, R[ichard] Snowden

Anthony, Susan Brownell

Armistead, Lewis Addison

Arnold, Richard

Asboth, Alexander Sandor

Ashby, Turner

Augur, Christopher Colon

Averell, William Woods

Ayres, Romeyn Beck

Babcock, Orville Elias

Bailey, James Edmund

Bailey, Joseph

Bailey, Theodorus

Baird, Absalom

Baker, Edward Dickinson

Banks, Nathaniel Prentiss

Barksdale, William

Barlow, Francis Channing

Barnard, John Gross

Barnes, James

Barnes, Joseph K.

Barnum, Henry A.

Barry, William Farquhar

Barton, Clara (Clarissa Harlowe)

Bate, William Brimage

Bates, Edward

Bayard, George Dashiell

Beauregard, Pierre Gustave Toutant

Bee, Barnard E.

Belknap, William Worth

Benjamin, Judah Philip

Berry, Hiram George

Bickerdyke, Mary Ann

Birney, David Bell

Birney, William

Blair, Francis Preston

Blair, Montgomery

Bocock, Thomas Salem

Bonham, Milledge Luke

Booth, John Wilkes

Botts, John Minor

Bowen, John S.

Boyd, Belle

Bragg, Braxton

Bragg, Thomas

Braine, Daniel Lawrence

Branch, Lawrence O'Bryan

Brannan, John Milton

Breckinridge, John Cadell

Brooke, John Mercer

Brown, John Calvin

Brown, Joseph Emerson

Buchanan, Franklin

Buckner, Simon Bolivar

Buell, Don Carlos

Buford, John

Burnside, Ambrose Everett

Butler, Benjamin Franklin

Butterfield, Daniel

Caldwell, John Curtis

Cameron, Robert Alexander

Cameron, Simon

Canby, Edward Richard Sprigg

Cannon, William

Carlin, William Passmore

Carr, Eugene Asa

Carr, Joseph B.

Carroll, Anna Ella

Carroll, Samuel Sprigg

Casey, Silas

Cesnola, Luigi Palma di

Chalmers, James Ronald

Chamberlain, Joshua Lawrence

Chandler, Zachariah

Chase, Salmon Portland

Chesnut, James, Jr.

Chisholm, Alexander Robert

Churchill, Thomas James

Clay, Cassius Marcellus

Clayton, Powell

Cleburne, Patrick Ronayne

Clingman, Thomas Lanier

Cobb, Howell

Cobb, Thomas Reed Rootes

Colfax, Schuyler

Collins, Napoleon

Colquitt, Alfred Holt

Cook, Philip

Cooper, Samuel

Corse, John Murray

Couch, Darius Nash

Cox, Jacob Dolson

Cox, Samuel Sullivan

Cox, William Ruffin

Craven, Tunis Augustus McDonough

Crawford, Samuel Wylie

Crittenden, George Bibb

Crittenden, Thomas Leonidas

Crook, George

Cross, Edward Ephram

Cruft, Charles

Curtin, Andrew Gregg

Curtis, Samuel Ryan

Cushing, William Barker

Cushman, Pauline

Custer, George Armstrong

Dahlgren, John Adolph

Dahlgren, Ulric

Dana, Napoleon Jackson Tecumseh

Davis, Charles Henry

Davis, Henry Winter

Davis, Jefferson

Davis, Jefferson C.

De Bow, James Dunwoody Brownson

De Trobriand, Philip Regis

Dearing, James

Devens, Charles

Devin, Thomas Casimir

Dix, Dorothea Lynde

Dix, John Adams

Dodge, Grenville Mellen

Doubleday, Abner

Douglass, Frederick

Drayton, Percival

Drayton, Thomas Fenwick

Du Pont, Samuel Francis

Duryee, Abram

Early, Jubal Anderson

Eckert, Thomas Thompson

Ellet, Alfred W.

Ellet, Charles

Ellet, Charles Rivers

Ellsworth, Ephraim Elmer

Emmons, George Foster

Emory, William Hemsley

Ericsson, John

Evans, Nathan George

Ewell, Richard Stoddert

Ewing, Hugh Boyle

Ewing, Thomas

Farnsworth, John Franklin

Farragut, David Glasgow

Ferrero, Edward

Ferry, Orris Sanford

Fessenden, Francis

Fessenden, James Deering

Foote, Andrew Hull

Forrest, Nathan Bedford

Forsyth, James W.

Foster, John Gray

Foster, Robert Sanford

Fox, Gustavus Vasa

Franklin, William Buel

Fremont, John Charles

French, William Henry

Fuller, John Wallace

Garfield, James Abram

Garland, Augustus Hill

Garnett, Richard Brooke

Garrard, Kenner

Geary, John White

Getty, George Washington

Gibbon, John

Gibson, Randall Lee

Gillem, Alvan Cullem

Gillmore, Quincy Adams

Goldsborough, Louis Malesherbes

Gordon, George Washington

Gordon, John Brown

Grant, Lewis Addison

Grant, Ulysses S.

Greene, George Sears

Greene, Samuel Dana

Gregg, David McMurtrie

Gregg, John Irvin

Gregg, Maxcy

Grierson, Benjamin Henry

Griffin, Charles

Griffin, Simon Goodell

Griffing, Josephine Sophie White

Grimes, Bryan

Grimes, James Wilson

Grimke, Angelina Emily

Grimke, Thomas Smith

Grover, Cuvier

Halleck, Henry Wager

Hamilton, Charles Smith

Hamlin, Hannibal

Hammond, William Alexander

Hampton, Wade

Hancock, Winfield Scott

Hardee, William J.

Harney, William Selby

Harper, Fletcher

Harris, Isham Green

Hartranft, John Frederick

Hartsuff, George Lucas

Hatch, Edward

Hatch, John Porter

Haupt, Herman

Hawkins, Rush Christopher

Hayes, Rutherford Birchard

Hays, Alexander

Hazen, William Babcock

Heintzelman, Samuel Peter

Helm, Ben Hardin

Herron, Francis Jay

Heth, Henry

Hill, Ambrose Powell

Hill, Benjamin Harvey

Hill, Daniel Harvey

Hoke, Robert Frederick

Hollins, George Nichols

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Holmes, Theophilus Hunter

Hood, John Bell

Hooker, Joseph

Hovey, Alvin Peterson

Howard, Oliver Otis

Howe, Albion Paris

Howe, Samuel Gridley

Huger, Benjamin

Humphreys, Andrew Atkinson

Hunt, Henry Jackson

Hunter, David

Hunter, Robert Mercer Taliaferro

Hurlbut, Stephen Augustus

Ingalls, Rufus

Iverson, Alfred

Jackson, Claiborne Fox

Jackson, Thomas Jonathan

Jackson, William Hicks

Jeffers, William Nicholson

Jenkins, Micah

Johnson, Andrew

Johnson, Bradley Tyler

Johnson, Edward

Johnson, Richard W.

Johnson, Albert Sidney

Johnston, Joseph Eggleston

Johnston, William Preston

Jones, Catesby ap Roger

Jordan, Thomas

Julian, George Washington

Kautz, Albert

Kautz, August Valentine

Kearny, Philip

Keitt, Laurence Massillon

Kell, John McIntosh

Kemper, James Lawson

Kenly, John Reese

Kershaw, Joseph Brevard

Keyes, Erasmus Darwin

Kilpatrick, Hugh Judson

Kimball, Nathan

King, Rufus

Lander, Frederick West

Lane, James Henry

Lawton, Alexander Robert

Lee, Fitzhugh

Lee, George Washington Custis

Lee, Robert Edward

Lee, Samuel Phillips

Lee, Stephen D.

Lee, William Henry Fitzhugh

Lincoln, Abraham

Lincoln, Mary Todd

Livermore, Mary Ashton Rice

Logan, John Alexander

Longstreet, James

Loring, William Wing

Lovejoy, Owen

Lovell, Mansfield

Lowry, Reigart B.

Lyon, Nathaniel

Lytle, William Haines

Mackenzie, Ranald Slidell

Magoffin, Beriah

Magruder, John Bankhead

Mahan, Alfred Thayer

Mahone, William

Mallory, Stephen Russell

Mansfield, Joseph King Fenno

Marmaduke, John Sappington

Martindale, John Henry

Mason, James Murray

Maury, Dabney Herndon

Maury, Matthew Fontaine

McCann, William Penn

McClellan, George Brinton

McClernand, John Alexander

McCook, Alexander McDowell

McCook, Edward Moody

McCulloch, Ben

McDowell, Irwin

McLaws, Lafayette

McPherson, James Birdseye

Meade, George Gordon

Meade, Richard Worsam

Meagher, Thomas Francis

Meigs, Montgomery Cunningham

Memminger, Christopher Gustavus

Meredith, Solomon

Merritt, Wesley

Miles, Nelson Appleton

Milroy, Robert Huston

Mitchel, Ormsby McKnight

Morell, George Webb

Morgan, Charles Hale

Morgan, George Washington

Morgan, John Hunt

Morrill, Justin S.

Morrill, Lot Myrick

Morton, Oliver Hazard Perry Throck

Mosby, John Singleton

Mott, Gershom

Mower, Joseph Anthony

Naglee, Henry Morris

Negley, James Scott

Nelson, William

Newton, John

Nicolay, John George

Oates, William Calvin

Oglesby, Richard

Ord, Edward O.C

Osborn, Thomas Ogden

Osborn, Thomas W.

Paine, Charles Jackson

Paine, Halbert Eleazer

Palmer, John McCauley

Parke, John Grubb

Parrott, Enoch Greenleaf

Parrott, Robert Parker

Pattison, Thomas

Paulding, Hiram

Peabody, Everett

Peck, John James

Pegram, John

Pemberton, John Clifford

Pender, William Dorsey

Pendleton, George Hunt

Pendleton, William Nelson

Pennypacker, Galusha

Pettigrew, James Johnston

Phillips, Wendell

Pickens, Francis Wilkinson

Pickett, George Edward

Pike, Albert

Pillow, Gideon Johnson

Pleasonton, Alfred

Polk, Leonidas

Pope, John

Porter, David Dixon

Porter, Fitz-John

Porter, William David

Potter, Joseph Hayden

Potter, Robert B.

Prentiss, Benjamin Mayberry

Preston, William

Price, Sterling

Queen, Walter W.

Rains, Gabriel James

Ramseur, Stephen Dodson

Randall, Alexander Williams

Randolph, George Wythe

Ransom, Thomas Eugene Greenfield

Rawlins, John Aaron

Reno, Jesse Lee

Reynolds, John Fulton

Reynolds, Joseph Jones

Rhett, Robert Barnwell

Rhind, Alexander Colden

Rice, James Clay

Richardson, Albert Deane

Richardson, Israel Bush

Ricketts, James Brewerton

Ripley, James Wolfe

Robinson, John Cleveland

Rodes, Robert Emmett

Rodgers, John

Rodman, Thomas Jackson

Rosecrans, William Starke

Rosser, Thomas Lafayette

Rousseau, Lovell Harrison

Ruffin, Edmund

Russell, David Allen

Sanborn, John Benjamin

Sands, Benjamin Franklin

Saxton, Rufus

Schenk, Robert Cumming

Schofield, John McAllister

Schurz, Carl

Scott, Winfield

Seddon, James Alexander

Sedgwick, John

Semmes, Raphael

Seward, William Henry

Seymour, Horatio

Shaw, Robert Gould

Shelby, Joseph

Sheridan, Philip Henry

Sherman, Thomas West

Sherman, William Tecumseh

Shipp, Scott

Sibley, Henry Hopkins

Sickles, Daniel Edgar

Sigel, Franz

Sill, Joshua Woodrow

Slidell, John

Slocum, Henry Warner

Smalls, Robert

Smith, Andrew Jackson

Smith, Charles Ferguson

Smith, Edmund Kirby

Smith, Melancton

Smith, William Farrar

Smith, William Sooy

Stahel, Julius

Stanley, David Sloan

Stannard, George Jerrison

Stanton, Edwin McMasters

Steedman, James Blair

Steele, Frederick

Stembel, Roger Nelson

Stephens, Alexander Hamilton

Stevens, Isaac Ingalls

Stevens, Thaddeus

Stevenson, John Dunlap

Stewart, Alexander P.

Stone, Charles Pomeroy

Stoneman, George

Stringham, Silas Horton

Strong, George Crockett

Strother, David Hunter

Stuart, James Ewell Brown

Sturgis, Samuel Davis

Sumner, Charles

Sumner, Edwin Vose

Swayne, Wager

Swinton, William

Sykes, George

Taliaferro, William Booth

Taney, Roger Brooke

Taylor, Richard

Terry, Alfred Howe

Thatcher, Henry Knox

Thayer, John Milton

Thomas, George Henry

Thompson, Jacob

Tilghman, Lloyd

Toombs, Robert

Torbert, Alfred Thomas Archimedes

Totten, Joseph Gilbert

Townsend, George Alfred

Trimble, Isaac Ridgeway

Turchin, John Basil

Tuttle, James Madison

Tyler, Robert Ogden

Upshur, John Henry

Upton, Emory

Vallandigham, Clement Laird

Van Dorn, Earl

Vance, Zebulon Baird

Vandever, William

Vincent, Strong

Wadsworth, James Samuel

Walcutt, Charles Carroll

Walke, Henry

Walker, Francis Amasa

Walker, James Alexander

Walker, John Grimes

Walker, Leroy Pope

Walker, Mary E.

Walker, William Henry Talbot

Wallace, Lewis

Wallace, William Harvey Lamb

Walthall, Edward Cary

Warren, Gouverneur Kemble

Washburn, Cadwallader Colden

Washburne, Elihu Benjamin

Webb, Alexander Stewart

Weed, Thurlow

Weitzel, Godfrey

Welles, Gideon

Wells, William

Werden, Reed

West, Joseph Rodman

Wharton, John Austin

Wheaton (Wheeton), Frank

Wheeler, Joseph

Whipple, Amiel Weeks

Whipple, William Denison

Whiting, William Henry Chase

Wigfall, Louis Trezevant

Wilcox, Cadmus Marcellus

Wilder, John Thomas

Wilkes, Charles

Willcox, Orlando Bolivar

Williams, Alpheus Starkey

Willich, August

Wilson, Henry

Wilson, James H.

Winder, Charles Sidney

Winslow, John Ancrum

Wise, Henry Alexander

Wood, John Taylor

Wood, Thomas John

Wool, John Ellis

Worden, John Lorimer

Work, Henry Clay

Wright, Ambrose Ransom

Wright, Horatio Gouvernor

Yancey, William Lowndes

Young, John Russell

Zollicoffer, Felix Kirk

Zook, Samuel Koscinszko.

Notes:

Includes indexes.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Class of 1932 Fund.

ISBN:

0765680211

OCLC:

41606280