Put
U.S. history on your desktop. This screensaver
contains 43 portraits and biographies of Civil
War Generals from the
North and South, such
as J.E.B
Stuart, W. T. Sherman, Ulysses S. Grant, Robert
E. Lee, and "Stonewall" Jackson. A short
history is included for each General describing
their birth,
death, pre-war career, war service, post-war career,
notes, and further reading ( special
thanks to Kerry
Webb ).
In 1888, industrialist and philanthropist, Washington
Duke, described the Generals on both sides of the conflict
as men whose "reputations and characters will
challenge the attention of the world for all time."
The following Generals are included in this screen saver:
Union Generals
- Buell, Don Carlos
- Burnside, Ambrose Everett
- Butler,
Benjamin Franklin "Spoons"
- Garfield, James Abram
- Gilmore, Quincy Adams
- Grant, Ulysses Simpson
- Halleck, Henry Wager
- Hancock, Winfield Scott
- Hooker,
Joseph "Fighting Joe"
- Howard, Oliver Otis
- Logan, John Alexander
- Lyon, Nathaniel
- McClellan, George Brinton
- McDowell, Irvin
- Meade, George Gordon
- Rosecrans,
William Starke "Old Rosy"
- Scott,
Winfield "Old Fuss and Feathers"
- Sedgwick, John
- Sherman,
William Tecumseh "Cump"
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Confederate Generals
- Beauregard, Pierre Gustave Toutant
- Bragg, Braxton
- Breckenridge, John Cabell
- Early, Jubal Andersen
- Ewell, Richard Stoddert
- Forrest, Nathan Bedford
- Gordon, John Brown
- Hampton, Wade
- Hardee, William Joseph "Old
Reliable"
- Hill, Ambrose Powell
- Hood, John Bell
- Jackson, Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall"
- Johnston, Albert Sidney
- Johnston, Joseph Eggleston
- Lee, Robert Edward
- Longstreet, James "Old
Pete"
- Magruder, John Bankhead "Prince
John"
- Morgan, John Hunt
- Pemberton, John Clifford
- Pickett, George Edward
- Polk, Leonidas
- Price, Sterling "Old Pap"
- Smith, Edmund Kirby
- Stuart, James Ewell Brown "Jeb"
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