A World on Fire_ Britain's Crucial Role in the American Civil War - Amanda Foreman [8]
Phillip Henry Sheridan (1831–88) UNION—Commander of the 3rd Division, XIV Corps, Army of the Cumberland, 1862–63; commander of the 2nd Division, IV Corps, Army of the Cumberland, 1863–64; commander of the Army of the Shenandoah, 1864–65.
William Tecumseh Sherman (1820–91) UNION—Brigadier general in the Army of the Tennessee, 1862; commander of the Department of the Tennessee, 1863–64; commander of the Military Division of the Mississippi, 1864–65.
James Ewell Brown (“Jeb”) Stuart (1833–64) CONFEDERATE—Commander of the 1st Virginia Cavalry Regiment, 1861; commander of the Virginia Cavalry Brigade, 1861–62; commander of the Virginia Cavalry Division, 1862–63; commander of the Virginia Cavalry Corps, 1863–64.
Politicians
Judah Philip Benjamin (1811–84) CONFEDERATE—The second Jewish senator in U.S. history; Confederate attorney general, 1861; secretary of war, 1861–62; and secretary of state, 1862–65.
John Cabell Breckinridge (1821–75) CONFEDERATE—Confederate secretary of war, 1865.
Salmon Portland Chase (1808–73) UNION—U.S. secretary of the treasury, 1861–64.
Jefferson Davis (1808–89) CONFEDERATE—President of the Confederate States, 1861–65.
John Adams Dix (1798–1879) UNION—Military governor of New York.
Edward Everett (1794–1865)—U.S. secretary of state, 1852–53; U.S. senator from Massachusetts, 1853–54; celebrated educator and orator, famous for his two-hour speech before Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address.
Abraham Lincoln (1809–65) UNION—First Republican president of the United States, 1861–65.
Stephen Russell Mallory (1813–73) CONFEDERATE—Confederate secretary of the navy, 1861–65.
James Alexander Seddon (1815–80) CONFEDERATE—Confederate secretary of war, 1862–65.
Frederick William Seward (1830–1915) UNION—U.S. assistant secretary of state, 1861–69 and 1877–79; son of William H. Seward.
William Henry Seward (1801–72) UNION—U.S. secretary of state, 1861–69.
Edwin Stanton (1814–69) UNION—U.S. secretary of war, 1862–65.
Charles Sumner (1811–74) UNION—U.S. senator from Massachusetts, 1851–74.
Robert Augustus Toombs (1810–85) CONFEDERATE—Confederate secretary of state, February–July 1861.
George Alfred Trenholm (1807–76) CONFEDERATE—Confederate secretary of the treasury 1864–65; founder of Fraser, Trenholm and Co.
Clement Laird Vallandigham (1820–71) UNION—U.S. House of Representatives, 3rd District Ohio, 1858–63; head of the Copperhead antiwar movement.
LeRoy Pope Walker (1817–84) CONFEDERATE—Confederate secretary of war, February–September 1861.
Gideon Welles (1802–78) UNION—U.S. secretary of the navy, 1861–69.
Pro-Northern Supporters
Edwin Thomas Booth (1833–93)—Actor; brother of John Wilkes Booth.
Frederick Douglass (1818–95)—Former slave; social reformer and abolition campaigner.
Horace Greeley (1811–72)—Editor of the New York Herald.
Sarah Parker Remond (1826–94)—Campaigner for abolition.
George Templeton Strong (1820–75)—Lawyer, co-founder, and treasurer of the U.S. Sanitary Commission.
Pro-Southern Supporters
Belle Boyd (1844–1900)—Confederate spy.
Mary Boykin Chesnut (1823–86)—South Carolinian diarist.
William Wilkins Glenn (1824–76)—Maryland journalist; conduit for British travelers entering the South.
John B. Jones (1810–66)—Virginian diarist; clerk in the War Department, Richmond, Virginia.
Charles Kuhn Prioleau (1827–87)—Head of Fraser, Trenholm and Co., Liverpool, England.
John R. Thompson (1828–73)—Poet, editor of the Southern Literary Messenger, 1847–59; contributor to the Index.
At Sea
David Glasgow Farragut (1801–70) UNION—Admiral on USS Hartford, 1862–66.
John Newland Maffitt (1819–86) CONFEDERATE—Captain of CSS Florida.
Matthew Fontaine Maury (1806–73) CONFEDERATE—Oceanographer; Confederate purchasing agent in Britain.
William Lewis Maury (1813–78) CONFEDERATE—Commander of CSS Georgia.
James Morris Morgan (1845–1928) CONFEDERATE—Lieutenant on CSS Georgia.
David Dixon Porter (1813–91) UNION—Commander of USS Powhatan; rear admiral of the Mississippi River Squadron.