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 Edwin McMasters
Stanton was a very successful
attorney who accepted a salary cut to become
Attorney General in 1860. He subsequently served
as Secretary of War under Abraham Lincoln, and it
was President Andrew Johnson's attempt to fire
him that led to Johnson's impeachment trial. |
 David
Glasgow Farragut became a midshipman
at the age of nine. He is best known for shouting
"Damn the torpedoes. Full
steam ahead!" during the Battle of Mobile
Bay (August 5, 1864), and for subsequently
becoming the first Rear Admiral in U.S. history
and then the first full Admiral in U.S. history. |
 William
Clarke Quantrill joined
the Confederacy upon outbreak of the Civil War.
He spent the first year of the war harassing
Union troops, raiding Union forts and
strongholds, and creating mayhem whenever and
wherever possible. By December 1861 he had
organized his own guerrilla band, which quickly
became more interested in looting and murder than
in furthering the Confederate cause. |
 Samuel Ryan
Curtis was serving in the U.S. House
of Representatives when he was appointed
Brigadier General in the Union Army. As commander
of the Army of Southwest Missouri, he forced
Confederate General Sterling Price's to abandon
its Missouri campaign, and then defeated it at
the Battle of Pea Ridge. |
 The
Battle
of Mine Creek, October 25, 1864 was
fought near the town of Trading Post, Kansas. One
of the largest cavalry engagements of the entire
war, the battle ended Confederate General
Sterling Price's attempt to capture Missouri for
the Confederacy, and proved to be the last major
engagement of the War in the West. |
 John
Sedgwick already had a distinguished
military career when the Civil War broke out. On
May 9, 1864, he was struck down by a Confederate
sniper's bullet and became the highest ranking
casualty of the war. |
 Thomas P.
"Boston" Corbett was one of the men specifically chosen
to pursue and capture President Abraham Lincoln's
assassin, John Wilkes Booth. On April 26, 1865,
despite orders to take him alive, he shot and
killed Booth. Corbett became a celebrity, but was
also also hounded by people who hated him for
killing someone they admired. |
| Civil
War Facts And Figures The war between the
states claimed more casualties than any war the
U.S. has ever participated in--at least 623,026
deaths and 471,427 wounded, for a minimum of
1,094,453. Approximately 388,000, over half, of
all deaths during the war were the result of
disease, not battle. |
 Mary Todd
Lincoln From the moment she married
Abraham Lincoln, Mary believed that Abe was
destined to become President of the United
States, and she did all she could to help him
realize that ambition. Unfortunately, Mary's
years in the White House brought her more sorrow
than happiness. |
