Leaders of the American Civil War

CHARLES F. RITTER is Professor and Chairperson of History at the College of Notre Dame in Maryland. He is coauthor, with Jon L. Wakelyn, of American Legislative Leaders, 1850-1910 (Greenwood, 1989).JON L. WAKELYN is Professor of History at Kent State University. He is the author of several books, including Biographical Dictionary of the Confederacy (Greenwood, 1977), Web of Southern Social Relations (1985), and Southern Pamphlets on Secession (1996).

• Preface and Acknowledgments Introduction: Historiography and the Making and Meaning of Greatness Biographies Joseph Reid Anderson Clara Barton Henry Ward Beecher Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard Judah Philip Benjamin Thomas Stanley Bocock Braxton Bragg Joseph Emerson Brown Joseph Lawrence Chamberlain Salmon Portland Chase Jay Cooke Charles Anderson Dana Jefferson Finis Davis Varina Howell Davis Dorothea Lynde Dix Frederic Douglass Josiah Gorgas Ulysses Simpson Grant Henry Wager Halleck John Bell Hood Robert Mercer Taliaferro Hunter Thomas Jonathan Jackson Andrew Johnson Joseph Eggleston Johnston Robert Edward Lee Abraham Lincoln James Longstreet George Brinton McClellan Steven Russell Mallory George Gordon Meade Christopher Gustavus Memminger Oliver Perry Morton Benjamin Morgan Palmer Edward Alfred Pollard David Dixon Porter James Alexander Seddon Raphael Semmes William Henry Seward Philip Henry Sheridan William Tecumseh Sherman Edwin McMaster Stanton Alexander Hamilton Stephens Thaddeus Stevens Charles Sumner George Henry Thomas Walt Whitman Louis Tresevant Wigfall Index