cwla - Personnel - Civilian/Government File

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Charles Francis Adams - U. S. Minister to Great Britain, 1861-68.
Henry Brooks Adams - Journalist.
Warren Akin - Confederate Congressman.
James L. Alcorn - Confederate Spy.
Loiusa May Alcott - Author.
Peter W. Alexander - Journalist.
Henry W. Allen - Governor, Louisiana, 1864-1865.
Adelbert Ames - Reconstruction Governor of Mississippi, 1868-1870.
Joseph Reid Anderson, Supervisor, Tredegar Iron Company, Richmond, Virginia
John Albion Andrew - Governor, Massachusetts, 1861-1866.
James J. Andrews - Union Spy.
Henry Bowen Anthony - U. S. Senator, Rhode Island, 1858-1884.
Sister Anthony (Mary O'Connell) - Nurse.
Susan Brownell Anthony - Abolitionist, Reformer, Organizer of the Women's Loyal League.
Isaac Newton Arnold - U. S. House of Representatives, Illinois, 1861-1865.
Samuel B. Arnold - Confederate deserter & President Lincoln Assassination Conspirator.
Samuel Greene Arnold - U. S. Senator, Rhode Island, 1862-1863.
Thomas Samuel Ashe - Confederate Congressman, North Carolina, 1861-1864.
James Mitchell Ashley - U. S. House of Representatives, Ohio, 1859-1869.
John DeWitt Clinton Atkins - Confederate Congressman, Tennessee, 1861-1865.
George A. Atzerodt - Confederate Spy & President Lincoln Assassination Conspirator.
Lewis M. Ayer - Confederate Congressman.

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George W. Bagby - Journalist.
James McNair Baker - Confederate Senator.
Lafayette Baker - Connected with the President Lincoln Assassination, Pursuit, Investigation, and/or Conspiracy Trial.
Luther B. Baker - Connected with the President Lincoln Assassination, Pursuit, Investigation, and/or Conspiracy Trial.
Nathaniel P. Banks - Major General, USA, 1861-1865; U. S. House of Representatives, Massachusetts, 1865-1873, 1875-1879, 1889-1891.
Mrs. Stephen Barker - Nurse & Sanitary Commission Hospital Superintendent.
Ethelbert Barksdale - Confederate Congressman, Mississippi, 1861-1865.
William Barksdale - U. S. House of Representatives, Mississippi, 1853-1861.
George N. Barnard - Union Journalist & Photographer.
Robert Woodward Barnwell - Confederate Senator, South Carolina, 1861-1865.
William T. S. Barry - Secessionist.
Clara Barton - Union Nurse.
Edward Bates - U. S. Attorney General, March 1861 - September 1864.
James Asheton Bayard, Jr. - U. S. Senator, Delaware, 1851-1864; 1867-1869.
John R. Baylor - Confederate Congressman & Governor.
John Y. Beall - Confederate Spy.
Henry Ward Beecher - Abolitionist, Preacher, Pastor of the Plymouth Congrgational Church in Brooklyn, New York.
Ethel L. Beers - Poet.
Fannie A. Beers - Nurse.
Caspar W. Bell - Confederate Congressman.
Hiram Parks Bell - Colonel, CSA & Confederate Congressman, Georgia, 1864-1865.
John Bell - Presidential Candidate, Constitutional Union Party, 1860.
Henry W. Bellows - U. S. Sanitary Commission Member.
Judah Philip Benjamin - Confederate Government Service, 1861-1865.
James G. Bennett - Journalist.
Eugene Benson - Journalist.
Nathaniel Springer Berry - Governor, New Hampshire, 1861-1863.
William D. Bickham - Journalist.
Mary Ann Ball "Mother" Bickerdyke - Nurse & U. S. Sanitary Commission Member.
John Bigelow - Journalist & Diplomat.
John Armour Bingham - U. S. Judge Advocate General, 1864 & U. S. Congressman, 1855-1863; 1865-1873.
Kinsley Scott Bingham - U. S. Senator, Michigan, 1859-1861.
James Gillespie Birney - Abolitionist, Anti-Slavery Leader.
Luke P. Blackburn - Confederate Spy.
Elizabeth Blackwell - English Physician, U. S. Sanitary Commission Member.
Henry B. Blackwell - Abolitionist.
Austin Blair - Governor, Michigan, 1861-1865.
Francis Preston Blair, Sr. - Founder of the Republican Party.
Montgomery Blair - U. S. Postmaster General, Mar. 1861-Sept. 1864.
Elbert Bland - Secessionist.
Henry G. Blasdel - Governor, Nevada, 1864-1871.
Thomas Stanhope Bocock - Confederate Congressman, Virginia, 1861-1865.
Elias C. Bodinot - Confederate Congressman.
Milledge Luke Bonham - Confederate Congressman, South Carolina, 1862; Governor, South Carolina, 1862-1864.
John Wilkes Booth - Actor; President Lincoln Assassination Conspirator; Assassinated President Lincoln, Apr. 14, 1865.
Arthur Inghram Boreman - First Governor of West Virginia, 1863-1869.
Alexander Robinson Boteler - Confederate Congressman, Virginia, 1861-1864.
George Sewel Boutwell - U. S. House of Representatives, Massachusetts, 1863-1869.
Lemuel Jackson Bowden - U. S. Senator, Virginia, 1863-1864.
William Waters Boyce - Confederate Congressman, South Carolina, 1861-1864.
James W. Boyd - Connected with the President Lincoln Assassination, Pursuit, Investigation, and/or Conspiracy Trial.
Thomas H. S. Boyd - Union Spy.
Belle Boyd - Confederate Spy.
Augustus W. Bradford - Governor, Maryland, 1862-1866.
Amy M. Bradley - Union Nurse & U. S. Sanitary Commission Member.
Mathew B. Brady - Union Photographer.
Thomas Bragg - Confederate Attorney General, 1861-1862.
Thomas E. Bramlette - Union Governor, Kentucky, 1863-1867.
John Cabell Breckinridge - Maj. Gen. CSA, 1861-1865 & Confederate Secretary of War, February 1865-April 1865.
Margaret E. Breckinridge - U. S. Sanitary Commission Member.
Jesse David Bright - U. S. Senator, Indiana, 1845-1862.
John W. Brockenbrough - Confederate Congressman.
John Mercer Brooke - Confederate Navy Ship Designer and Builder.
Noah Brooks - Journalist.
Preston Smith Brooks - U. S. House of Representatives, South Carolina, 1853-1856; 1856-1857.
John Brough - Governor, Ohio, 1864-1865.
Albert Gallatin Brown - Confederate Senator, Mississippi, 1862-1865.
Benjamin Gratz Brown - U. S. Senator, Missouri, 1863-1867.
John Brown - Abolitionist; Led raid on Harper's Ferry Arsenal, 1859.
Joseph Emerson Brown - Governor, Georgia, 1855-1865.
Junius H. Browne - Journalist.
William M. Browne - Journalist.
Orville Hickman Browning - U. S. Senator, Illinois, 1861-1863.
William Gannaway Brownlow - Tennessee Unionist; Governor, Tennessee, 1865-69.
Horatio W. Bruce - Confederate Congressman.
Julian Bryant - Abolitionist.
James Buchanan - U. S. President (15th), 1857-1861.
Charles Rollin Buckalew - U. S. Senator, Pennsylvania, 1863-1869.
William Alfred Buckingham - Governor, Connecticut, 1858-1866.
Ralph Pomeroy Buckland - Major General, USA, 1862-1865 & U. S. House of Representatives, Ohio, 1865-1869.
James Dunwoody Bulloch - Confederate Navy Ship Designer and Builder; Confederate Naval Purchasing Agent in Europe.
Rufus Brown Bullock - Governor, Georgia, 1868.
Anson Burlingame - Diplomat.
Henry Cornelius Burnett - Provisional Confederate Congress Representative, Kentucky, 1861-1862 & Confederate Senator, Kentucky, 1862-1865.
Henry L. Burnett - Judge Advocate General.
Theodore L. Burnett - Confederate Congressman.
Henry Stanton Burton - Abolitionist.
William Burton - Governor, Delaware, 1859-1863.
Andrew Pickens Butler - U. S. Senator, South Carolina, 1846-1857.

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William L. Cabell - Confederate Quartermaster.
Sylvanus Cadwallader - Journalist.
John Caldwell Calhoun - U. S. Vice President, 1825-1832 & U. S. Senator, South Carolina, 1832-1843; 1845-1850.
Samuel B. Callahan - Confederate Congressman.
Simon Cameron - U. S. Secretary of War, 1861-1862.
John Archibald Campbell - Confederate Assistant Secretary of War.
William Cannon - Governor, Delaware, 1863-1865.
Allen Taylor Caperton - Confederate Senator, Virginia, 1861-1865.
John Snyder Carlile - U. S. Senator (Unionist), Virginia, 1861-1865.
Thomas Carney - Governor, Kansas, 1863-1865.
Robert Looney Caruthers - Governor, Tennessee, 1862.
John Catron - U. S. Supreme Court Justice.
Henry C. Chambers - Confederate Congressman.
John R. Chambliss, Jr. - Confederate Congressman.
Zachariah Chandler - U. S. Senator, Michigan, 1857-1875; 1879.
William Ellery Channing - Abolitionist.
Salmon Portland Chase - U. S. Senator, Ohio, 1861; U. S. Secretary of the Treasury, 1861-1864; U. S. Supreme Court Chief Justice, 1864-1873.
Lydia M. F. Child - Abolitionist.
William P. Chilton - Confederate Congressman.
Norton Parker Chipman - U. S. Brevet Brigadier General, U. S. Judge Advocate General, 1861-1865.
Charles Clark - Governor, Mississippi, 1863-1865.
Daniel Clark - U. S. Senator, New Hampshire, 1857-1866.
Edward Clark - Governor, Texas, 1861.
Henry Toole Clark - Governor, North Carolina, 1861-1862.
John Bullock Clark, Sr. - Confederate Senator, Missouri, 1862-1864; Confederate Representative, Missouri, 1864-1865.
Willis G. Clark - Journalist.
Cassius M. Clay - Diplomat.
Clement Claiborne Clay, Jr. - Confederate Senator, Alabama, 1861-1863.
Alexander M. Clayton - Confederate Congressman.
Philip Clayton - Confederate Cabinet.
Powell Clayton - U. S. Brigadier General, 1861-1865 & U. S. Senator, Arkansas, 1871-1877.
Nathan Clifford - U. S. Supreme Court Justice.
Amasa Cobb - U. S. Brevet Brigadier General, 1861-1865 & U. S. House of Representatives, Wisconsin, 1863-1871.
Howell Cobb - U. S. Secretary of the Treasury, 1857-1860 & Confederate Major General, 1862-1863.
Silas T. Cobb - Connected with the President Lincoln Assassination, Pursuit, Investigation, and/or Conspiracy Trial.
Abner Coburn - Governor, Maine, 1863-1864.
Charles C. Coffin - Journalist.
Schuyler Colfax - U. S. House of Representatives, Indiana, 1855-1869; U. S. Vice-President, 1869-1873.
Jacob Collamer - U. S. Senator, Vermont, 1855-1865.
Everton J. Conger - Connected with the President Lincoln Assassination, Pursuit, Investigation, and/or Conspiracy Trial.
Roscoe Conkling - U. S. House of Representatives, New York, 1859-1863; 1865-1867.
John Conness - U. S. Senator, California, 1863-1869.
Charles Mynn Conrad - Confederate Congressman, Louisiana, 1861-1864.
Aaron H. Conrow - Confederate Congressman.
Samuel Coney - Governor, Maine, 1864-1867.
George S. Cook - Photographer.
Jay Cooke - U. S. Treasury Department Fiscal Agent, 1862-1864.
Samuel A. Cooley - Photographer.
Boston Corbett - Connected with the President Lincoln Assassination, Pursuit, Investigation, and/or Conspiracy Trial.
William Corbin - Confederate Spy.
James L. Corley - Confederate Quartermaster.
Erastus Corning - U. S. House of Representatives, New York, 1857-1859; 1861-1863.
Thomas Corwin - U. S. Senator, Ohio, 1859-1861; U. S. Minister to Mexico, 1861-1864.
John Covode - U. S. House of Representatives, Pennsylvania, 1855-1863; 1867-1869; 1870-1871.
Edgar Cowan - U. S. Senator, Pennsylvania, 1861-1867.
Samuel Cox, Jr. - Connected with the President Lincoln Assassination, Pursuit, Investigation, and/or Conspiracy Trial.
Samuel Sullivan Cox - U. S. Congressman, Ohio, 1857-1865; U. S. Congressman, New York, 1869-1873; 1873-1885.
William C. Cozzens - Governor, Governor, 1863.
Henry H. Crapo - Governor, Michigan, 1865-1868.
Samuel J. Crawford - Governor.
John Jordan Crittenden - Governor, Kentucky, 1848-1850; U. S. House of Representatives (Unionist), Kentucky, 1861-1863.
Marcus H. Cruikshank - Confederate Congressman.
William W. Crump - Confederate Cabinet.
Kate Cumming - Nurse.
Richard H. Cunningham, Jr. - Secessionist.
Jabez Lamar Monroe Curry - U. S. House of Representatives, Alabama, 1857-1861; Lieutenant Colonel, CSA, 1862-1865.
Andrew Gregg Curtin - Governor, Pennsylvania, 1861-1867; U. S. House of Representatives, Pennsylvania, 1881-1887.
Benjamin R. Curtis - U. S. Supreme Court Justice.
Pauline Cushman - Union Spy.
John Cussons - Journalist.

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Louis J. M. Daguerre - Photographer.
Charles Anderson Dana - Union Newspaper Journalist and Editor.
John M. Daniel - Journalist.
Peter V. Daniel - U. S. Supreme Court Justice.
Edmund Strother Dargan - Member of the First Confederate Congress, 1862-1864.
David Davis - U. S. Supreme Court Justice, 1862-1877.
Garrett Davis - U. S. Senator, Kentucky, 1861-1872.
George Davis - Confederate Senator & Attorney General, Jan. 1864-Apr. 1865.
Jefferson Finis Davis - U. S. Senator, Mississippi, 1857-1861; Confederate President, 1861-1865.
Reuben Davis - Confederate Congressman.
Samuel Davis - Confederate Spy.
Rufus Dawes - Brevet Brigadier General, USA, 1861-1865; U. S. House of Representatives, Ohio, 1881-1883.
James B. Dawkins - Confederate Congressman.
William Lewis Dayton - U. S. Minister to France, 1861-1864.
James D. B. DeBow - Journalist.
Felix G. De Fontaine - Journalist.
Edwin De Leon - Diplomat.
William M. Dennison - Governor, Ohio, 1860-1862; U. S. Postmaster General, 1864-1866.
Thomas J. Devine - Secessionist.
Benjamin F. Dill - Journalist.
R. K. Dillard - Confederate Spy.
Dorothea L. Dix - Union Superintendent of Nurses.
James Dixon - U. S. Senator, Connecticut, 1857-1869.
David O. Dodd - Confederate Spy.
Grenville Mellen Dodge - Major General, USA, 1861-1866; U. S. House of Representatives, Iowa, 1867-1869.
Edward P. Doherty - Connected with the President Lincoln Assassination, Pursuit, Investigation, and/or Conspiracy Trial.
James Rood Doolittle - U. S. Senator, Wisconsin, 1857-1869.
William T. Dortch - Confederate Senator.
Stephen Arnold Douglas - U. S. House of Representatives, Illinois, 1843-1847; U. S. Senator, Illinois, 1847-1861.
Frederick Douglass - Abolitionist.
John G. Downey - Governor, California, 1860-1862.
Edouard Drouyn de L'Huys - Diplomat.
Ebenezer Dumont - Brigadier General, USA, 1861-1863; U. S. House of Representatives, Indiana, 1863-1867.
Lucius J. Dupre - Confederate Congressman.
F. E. Durbec - Photographer.

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J. D. Edwards - Photographer.
John M. Elliott - Confederate Congressman.
John W. Ellis - Governor, North Carolina, 1859-1861.
John Ericcson - U. S. Navy Ship Designer and Builder; Inventor of the Ironclad Monitor.
Anna Etheridge - Nurse.
Augusta J. Evans - Nurse.
William Maxwell Evarts - U. S. Attorney General, 1868-1869.

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Erastus Fairbanks - Governor, Vermont, 1860-1861.
John Franklin Farnsworth - Brigadier General, USA, 1861-1863; U. S. House of Representatives, 1863-1873.
Nathan Allen Farwell - U. S. Senator, Maine, 1864-1865.
John G. Fee - Abolitionist.
Reuben Eaton Fenton - U. S. House of Representatives, New York, 1853-1855, 1857-1864; Governor, New York, 1865-1868.
William Pitt Fessenden - U. S. Senator, 1854-1864; U. S. Secretary of the Treasury, July 1864-March 1865; U. S. Senator, 1865-1869.
Richard Stockton Field - U. S. Senator, New Jersey, 1862-1863.
Stephen J. Field - U. S. Supreme Court Justice.
Millard Fillmore - U. S. Vice-President, 1849-1850; U. S. President (13th), 1850-1852.
Harris Flanagin - Governor, Arkansas, 1862-1864.
Benjamin Franklin Flanders - U. S. House of Representatives, Louisiana (Unionist), 1862-1863; U. S. Military Governor, Louisiana, 1867-1868.
Thomas Fletcher - Governor, Arkansas, 1862 (11 days).
Thomas C. Fletcher - Governor, Missouri, 1865-1869.
George Gilman Fogg - U. S. Minister to Switzerland, 1861-1865; U. S. Senator, New Hampshire, 1866-1867.
Isabella Fogg - Nurse & U. S. Sanitary Commission Member.
Solomon Foot - U. S. House of Representatives, Vermont, 1843-1847; U. S. Senator, Vermont, 1851-1866.
Henry Stuart Foote - Confederate Congressman, Tennessee, 1862-1864.
Antonia Ford - Confederate Spy.
John T. Ford - Connected with the President Lincoln Assassination, Pursuit, Investigation, and/or Conspiracy Trial.
John Forsyth - Governor, Georgia, 1827-1829; U. S. Senator, Georgia, 1829-1834; U. S. Secretary of State, 1834-1841.
Lafayette Sabine Foster - U. S. Senator, Connecticut, 1855-1867.
Elida R. Fowle - Nurse.
Gustavus Fox - U. S. First Assistant Secretary of the Navy, Aug. 1861-May 1866.
John C. Frémont - Presidential Candidate, New Republican Party, 1856; Major General, USA, 1861-1864; Governor, Arizona Territory, 1878-1881.
Barbara Fritchie - Union Sympathizer.
David Funsten - Confederate Congressman.

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Hamilton R. Gamble - Governor, Missouri, 1861-1864.
Alexander Gardner - Union Photographer.
James Abram Garfield - Major General, USA, 1861-1863; U. S. House of Representatives, Ohio, 1863-1880; U. S. President (20th), 1881.
Augustus H. Garland - Confederate Congressman, Arkansas, 1861-1865.
Richard H. Garrett - Connected with the President Lincoln Assassination, Pursuit, Investigation, and/or Conspiracy Trial.
Thomas Garrett - Abolitionist.
William Lloyd Garrison - Aboloitionist and Editor.
Lucius Jeremiah Gartrell - Colonel, CSA, 1861-1862; Confederate Congressman, Georgia, 1862-1864; Brigadier General, CSA, 1864-1865.
Sydney H. Gay - Abolitionist & Journalist.
Meredith Poindexter Gentry - Confederate Congressman, Tennessee, 1862-1864.
Mrs. E. E. George - Nurse & U. S. Sanitary Commission Member.
Joshua R. Giddings - Abolitionist.
Thomas S. Gholson - Confederate Congressman.
Addison C. Gibbs - Governor.
James F. Gibson - Photographer.
John A. Gilmer - U. S. House of Representatives, North Carolina, 1857-1861; Confederate Congressman, North Carolina, 1864.
Joseph A. Gilmore - Governor, New Hampshire, 1863-1865.
Daniel Wheelwright Gooch - U. S. House of Representatives, Massachusetts, 1858-1865, 1873-1875.
John Goode, Jr. - Colonel, CSA, 1861-1862; Confederate Congressman, Virginia, 1862-1865.
Ichabod Goodwin - Governor, New Hampshire, 1859-1861.
John Brown Gordon - Lieutenant General, CSA, 1861-1865; U. S. Senate, Georgia, 1873-1880; 1891-1897; Governor, Georgia, 1886-1890.
William Alexander Graham - U. S. Secretary of the Navy, 1850-1853; Confederate Senator, North Carolina, 1863-1864.
Ulysses Simpson Grant - Lieutenant General, USA, 1861-1865; U. S. President (18th), 1868-1876.
Henry Gray - Confederate Congressman.
Horace Greeley - Editor of the New York Tribune Newspaper.
Rose O'Neal Greenhow - Confederate Spy.
Robert C. Grier - U. S. Supreme Court Justice.
James Wilson Grimes - Governor, Iowa, 1854-1858; U. S. Senator, Iowa, 1859-1869.
Angelina E. Grimke - Abolitionist.
Sarah M. Grimke - Abolitionist.
Josiah B. Grinnell - Abolitionist.
Galusha Aaron Grow - U. S. House of Representatives, Pennsylvania, 1851-1863, 1894-1903.

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Michael Hahn - U. S. House of Representatives, Louisiana, 1862-1863; Governor, Louisiana, 1864-1865.
John Parker Hale - U. S. Senator, New Hampshire, 1847-1853, 1855-1865; U. S. Minister to Spain, 1865-1869.
Maria M. C. Hall - Nurse.
Willard Preble Hall - Provisional Lieutenant Governor, Missouri, 1861-1864; Brigadier General, USA, 1861-1863; Governor, Missouri, 1864-1865.
Hannibal Hamlin - U. S. Senator, Maine, 1857-1861; U. S. Vice President, 1861-1865; U. S. Senator, Maine, 1869-1881.
Wade Hampton - General, CSA, 1862-1865; Governor, South Carolina, 1876-1879; U. S. Senate, South Carolina, 1879-1891.
Thomas Harbin - Connected with the President Lincoln Assassination, Pursuit, Investigation, and/or Conspiracy Trial.
Benjamin Franklin Harding - U. S. Senator, Oregon, 1862-1865.
James Harlan - U. S. Senator, Iowa, 1857-1865; U. S. Secretary of the Interior, 1865-1866; U. S. Senator, Iowa, 1867-1873.
Fletcher Harper - Journalist.
Clara Harris - Connected with the President Lincoln Assassination, Pursuit, Investigation, and/or Conspiracy Trial.
Elisha Harris - U. S. Sanitary Commission Member.
Ira Harris - U. S. Senator, New York, 1861-1867.
Isham Green Harris - Governor, Tennessee, 1857-1862; Confederate Army Service, 1862-1865; U. S. Senator, Tennessee, 1877-1897.
Benjamin Harrison - Brevet Brigadier General, USA, 1862-1865; U. S. Senator, Indiana, 1881-1887; U. S. President (23rd), 1889-1893.
Henry T. Harrison - Confederate Spy.
Julian Hartridge - Lieutenant, CSA, 1861-1862; Confederate Congressman, Georgia, 1862-1865; U. S. House of Representatives, Georgia, 1875-1879.
Cordelia A. P. Harvey - U. S. Sanitary Commission Member.
Louis P. Harvey - Governor, Wisconsin, 1862.
Richard Hawes - U. S. House of Representatives, Kentucky, 1837-1841; Provisional Confederate Governor, Kentucky, 1862-1865.
Harriet W. F. Hawley - Nurse.
Rutherford Birchard Hayes - Brigadier General, USA, 1861-1865; U. S. Congressman, Ohio, 1865-1867; U. S. President (19th), 1877-1881.
Landon C. Haynes - Secessionist & Confederate Congressman.
Joseph B. Heiskell - Confederate Congressman.
John Brooks Henderson - U. S. Senator, Missouri, 1862-1869.
Thomas Andrews Hendricks - U. S. House of Representatives, Indiana, 1851-1855; U. S. Senator, Indiana, 1863-1869.
Josiah Henson - Abolitionist.
Caleb C. Herbert - Confederate Congressman.
David Herold - President Lincoln Assassination Conspirator.
Thomas Holliday Hicks - Governor, Maryland, 1857-1862; U. S. Senator, Maryland, 1862-1865.
Thomas W. Higginson - Abolitionist and Union Army Commander.
Adams S. Hill - Journalist.
Benjamin Harvey Hill - Georgia Delegate, Confederate Provisional Congress, 1861; Confederate Senator, Georgia, 1861-1865.
Robert B. Hilton - Confederate Congressman.
Augustus Charles Hobart-Hampden - English Naval Officer and Confederate blockade-runner.
Jane Hoge - U. S. Sanitary Commission Member.
Frederick Holbrook - Governor, Vermont, 1861-1863.
James P. Holcombe - Confederate Congressman.
William Woods Holden - Journalist.
Frederick W. M. Holliday - Confederate Congressman.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. - Union Soldier; U. S. Supreme Court Chief Justice, 1899-1902.
Joseph Holt - Judge Advocate General.
Winslow Homer - Union Reporter, Illustrator, and Painter.
Jedediah Hotchkiss - Confederate Cartographer.
G. H. Houghton - Photographer.
Samuel Houston - President, Republic of Texas, 1836-1838, 1841-1844; U. S. Senator, Texas, 1846-1859; Governor, Texas, 1859-1861.
Jacob Merritt Howard - U. S. House of Representatives, Michigan, 1841-1843; U. S. Senator, Michigan, 1862-1871.
Joseph Howard, Jr. - Journalist.
Julia Ward Howe - Poet & Abolitionist.
Samuel G. Howe - Abolitionist & U. S. Sanitary Commission Member.
Timothy Otis Howe - U. S. Senator, Wisconsin, 1861-1879; U. S. Postmaster General, 1882-1883.
Frederic Hudson - Journalist.
Horace L. Hunley - Confederate Navy Ship Designer and Builder; Inventor of the first Submersible to sink an enemy vessel.
Robert Mercer Taliaferro Hunter - Confederate Secretary of State, 1861-1862; Confederate Senator, Virginia, 1862-1865.
Mary M. Husband - U. S. Sanitary Commission Member.

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Alfred E. Jackson - Confederate Quartermaster.
Claiborne Fox Jackson - Governor, Missouri, 1861.
James Streshly Jackson - U. S. House of Representatives, Kentucky, 1861; Brigadier General, USA, 1861-1862.
William A. Jackson - Union Spy, Coachman for Jefferson Davis.
Robert Jemison, Jr. - Confederate Senator.
Willie Jett - Connected with the President Lincoln Assassination, Pursuit, Investigation, and/or Conspiracy Trial.
Andrew Johnson - Military Governor, Tennessee, 1862-1865; U. S. Vice-President, 1865; U. S. President (17th), 1865-1869.
Andrew Johnson - Federal Governor, Tennessee, 1862-1865.
Herschel Vespasian Johnson - Governor, Georgia, 1853-1857; Confederate Senator, Georgia, 1862-1865.
Reverdy Johnson - U. S. Senator, Maryland, 1863-1868; U. S. Minister to England, 1868-1869.
Robert Ward Johnson - Arkansas Delegate, Provisional Confederate Congress, 1861-1862; Confederate Senator, Arkansas, 1862-1865.
Waldo Porter Johnson - U. S. Senator, Missouri, 1861-1862; Lieutenant Colonel, CSA, 1862-1863; Confederate Senator, Missouri, 1863-1865.
Joseph Eggleston Johnston - General, CSA, 1861-1865; U. S. House of Representatives, Virginia, 1879-1881; 1885-1891.
Antoine Henri Jomini - European Military Theorist.
George Washington Jones - U. S. House of Representatives, Tennessee, 1843-1859; First Confederate Congressman, Tennessee, 1862-1864.
Thomas Jones - Connected with the President Lincoln Assassination, Pursuit, Investigation, and/or Conspiracy Trial.
George Washington Julian - U. S. House of Representatives, Indiana, 1849-1851, 1861-1871.

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Thomas L. Kane - Abolitionist.
Robert G. H. Kean - Confederate Cabinet.
Anthony Kennedy - U. S. Senator, Maryland, 1857-1863.
Robert C. Kennedy - Confederate Spy.
Duncan F. Kenner - Confederate Congressman.
Edward J. C. Kewen - Secessionist.
Wade Keyes, Jr. - Confederate Attorney General, 1863-1864.
Preston King - U. S. House of Representatives, New York, 1843-1847, 1849-1853; U. S. Senator, New York, 1857-1863.
Samuel Jordan Kirkwood - Governor, Iowa, 1860-1864; U. S. Senator, Iowa, 1866-1867; Governor, Iowa, 1876-1877.

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John Laird - English Ship Designer and Builder, whose company built Confederate ironclads and rams.
Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar - U. S. House of Representatives, Mississippi, 1857-1860; Colonel, CSA, 1861-1862; Confederate Diplomat, 1863.
Jean M. D. Lander - Nurse.
Henry Smith Lane - Governor, Indiana, 1861; U. S. Senator, Indiana, 1861-1867.
James Henry Lane - U. S. House of Representatives, Indiana, 1853-1855; U. S. Senator, Kansas, 1861-1866; Brigadier General, USA, 1861-1862.
Joseph Lane - U. S. Senator, Oregon, 1859-1861; Vice-Presidential Candidate, Southern Democratic Party, 1860.
Sidney Lanier - Poet.
Milton Slocum Latham - Governor, California, 1860; U. S. Senator, California, 1860-1863.
Alexander R. Lawton - Confederate Quartermaster.
Hattie Lawton - Union Spy.
Charles A. Leale - Connected with the President Lincoln Assassination, Pursuit, Investigation, and/or Conspiracy Trial.
John F. Lee - Judge Advocate General.
Mary W. Lee - Nurse.
Frank Leslie - Journalist.
John Letcher - U. S. House of Representatives, Virginia, 1851-1859; Governor, Virginia, 1860-1864.
David Peter Lewis - Confederate Congressman & Governor of Alabama.
James T. Lewis - Governor, Wisconsin, 1864-1866.
John W. Lewis - Confederate Senator.
Pryce Lewis - Union Spy.
Abraham Lincoln - U. S. House of Representatives, Illinois, 1847-1849; U. S. President (16th), 1861-1865.
John H. Linebaugh - Journalist.
Mary A. R. Livermore - U. S. Sanitary Commission Member.
John M. Lloyd - Connected with the President Lincoln Assassination, Pursuit, Investigation, and/or Conspiracy Trial.
William A. Lloyd - Union Spy.
David R. Locke (Petroleum Vesuvius Nasby) - Journalist.
George W. Logan - Confederate Congressman.
John A. Logan - General, USA, 1862-1865; U. S. House of Representatives, Illinois, 1867-1871; U. S. Senator, Illinois, 1871-1877; 1879-1886.
Elijah P. Lovejoy - Abolitionist.
Owen Lovejoy - Ordained Pastor; Abolitionist; U. S. House of Representatives, Illinois, 1857-1864.
Frederick Ferdinand Low - U. S. House of Representatives, California, 1862-1863; Governor, California, 1863-1867.
Thaddeus Sobieski Constantine Lowe - Union Chief of Aeronautics, Balloonist.
Francis R. Lubbock - Governor, Texas, 1861-1863.
William Lucas - Connected with the President Lincoln Assassination, Pursuit, Investigation, and/or Conspiracy Trial.
Benjamin Lundy - Abolitionist.
Francis Strother Lyon - U. S. House of Representatives, Alabama, 1835-1839; Confederate Congressman, Alabama, 1862-1865.
James Lyons - Confederate Congressman.
Lord Richard B. P. Lyons - British Minister to the United States, 1858-1865.
William H. Lytle - Poet.

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Willis B. Machen - Confederate Congressman.
Marcus H. MacWillie - Confederate Congressman.
Beriah Magoffin - Governor, Kentucky, 1859-1862.
Andrew G. Magrath - Governor, South Carolina, 1864-1865.
William Mahone - Major General, CSA, 1861-1865; U. S. Senator, Virginia, 1881-1887.
Francis A. Mallison - Journalist.
Stephen Russell Mallory - U. S. Senator, Florida, 1851-1861; Confederate Secretary of the Navy, 1861-1865.
Ambrose D. Mann - Diplomat.
George Perkins Marsh - U. S. Minister Resident to Turkey, 1849-1853; U. S. Minister Plenipotentiary to Italy, 1861-1882.
Henry Marshall - Confederate Congressman.
Humphrey Marshall - Brigadier General, CSA, 1861-1863; Confederate Congressman, Kentucky, 1864-1865.
James Murray Mason - Provisional Confederate Congress, Virginia Delegate, 1861; Confederate Commissioner to Great Britain & France, 1861-1865.
Augustus Emmett Maxwell - U. S. Navy Agent, 1857-1861; Confederate Senator, Florida, 1862-1865.
John Maxwell - Confederate Spy.
Joseph E. McCabe - Union Spy.
John R. McClanahan - Journalist.
John A. McClernand - U. S. House of Representatives, Illinois, 1843-1851, 1859-1861; General, USA, 1861-1864.
Joseph B. McCullagh - Journalist.
Hugh McCulloch - U. S. Secretary of the Treasury, Mar. 1865-Mar. 1869.
Zedekiah McDaniel - Confederate Spy.
James Alexander McDougall - U. S. House of Representatives, California, 1853-1855; U. S. Senator, California, 1861-1867.
T. G. McGraw - Confederate Spy.
Charlotte McKay - Nurse.
William McKinley, Jr. - Brevet Major, USA, 1861-1865; U. S. House of Representatives, 1877-1884, 1885-1891; U. S. President (25th), 1897-1901.
James R. McLean - Confederate Congressman.
John McLean - U. S. Supreme Court Associate Justice, 1829-1861.
Wilmer McLean - Confederate Civilian; owner of house used for Confederate surrender at Appomattox, Virginia.
Fayette McMullen - U. S. House of Representatives, Virginia, 1849-1857; Confederate Congressman, Virginia, 1864-1865.
John McQueen - U. S. House of Representatives, South Carolina, 1849-1860; Confederate Congressman, South Carolina, 1862-1864.
Christopher Gustavus Memminger - Confederate Secretary of the Treasury, Mar. 6, 1864 - June 1864.
Elizabeth Mendenhall - U. S. Sanitary Commission Member.
Henri Mercier - Diplomat.
William Porcher Miles - Confederate Congressman, South Carolina, 1861-1864; Colonel, CSA, 1864-1865.
Samuel F. Miller - U. S. Supreme Court Justice.
Stephen Miller - Governor, Minnesota, 1864-1866.
Stephen Decatur Miller - Governor, South Carolina, 1828-1830; U. S. Senator, South Carolina, 1831-1833.
John Milton - Governor, Florida, 1861-1865.
Charles Burton Mitchel - U. S. Senator, Arkansas, 1861; Confederate Senator, Arkansas, 1861-1864.
James E. Montgomery - Confederate Civilian.
Andrew B. Moore - Governor, Alabama, 1857-1861.
Henry P. Moore - Photographer.
Thomas O. Moore - Governor, Louisiana, 1860-1864.
Edwin Dennison Morgan - Major General, USA, 1861-1863; U. S. Senator, New York, 1863-1869.
Justin Smith Morrill - U. S. House of Representatives, Vermont, 1855-1867; U. S. Senator, Vermont, 1867-1898.
Lot Myrick Morrill - Governor, Maine, 1858-1860; U. S. Senator, Maine, 1861-1869, 1869-1876.
Jackson Morton - U. S. Senator, Florida, 1849-1855; Confederate Congressman, Florida, 1861-1865.
Oliver Hazard Perry Throck Morton - Lieutenant Governor, Indiana, 1861; Governor, Indiana, 1861-1867; U. S. Senator, Indiana, 1867-1877.
Raphael J. Moses - Confederate Commissary Officer.
Dr. Samuel Alexander Mudd - President Lincoln Assassination Conspirator.
William B. Mumford - Confederate Civilian.
Pendleton Murrah - Governor, Texas, 1863-1865.
Isaac Murphy - Governor, Arkansas, 1864-1868.
Abraham C. Myers - Confederate Quartermaster.

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Samuel Nelson - U. S. Supreme Court Justice.
James Willis Nesmith - U. S. Senator, Oregon, 1861-1867; U. S. House of Representatives, Oregon, 1873-1875.
Ella K. Newsom - Nurse.
Alfred Osborn Pope Nicholson - Editor, Washington Union, 1853-1856; U. S. Senator, Tennessee, 1859-1861.
John George Nicolay - Assistant Secretary to President Lincoln.
James Warren Nye - Governor, Washoe (Nevada) Territory, 1861-1864; U. S. Senator, Nevada, 1864-1873.

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Moses Fowler Odell - U. S. House of Representatives, New York, 1861-1865.
Richard James Oglesby - Major General, USA, 1861-1864; Governor, Illinois, 1865-1869, 1873; U. S. Senator, Illinois, 1873-1879.
Michael O'Laughlin - Confederate deserter & President Lincoln Assassination Conspirator.
Charles Smith Olden - Governor, New Jersey, 1860-1863.
Williamson S. Oldham - Secessionist & Confederate Senator.
Frederick Law Olmsted - U. S. Sanitary Commission Member.
James Lawrence Orr - Confederate Senator, South Carolina, 1861; Confederate Army, 1861-1865; Governor, South Carolina, 1866.
James M. Osborn - Photographer.
Timothy O'Sullivan - Union Photographer.
Robert Ould - Confederate Cabinet.

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Charles A. Page - Journalist.
Lewis Paine - President Lincoln Assassination Conspirator; Attempted assassination of U. S. Secretary of State Seward, Apr. 14, 1865.
Henry J. T. Palmerston (3rd Viscount) - Diplomat.
Joel Parker - Governor, New Jersey, 1863-1866.
Theodore Parker - Abolitionist.
Franc M. Paul - Journalist.
James Alfred Pearce - U. S. House of Representatives, Maryland, 1835-1839, 1841-1843; U. S. Senator, Maryland, 1843-1862.
Phoebe Y. Pember - Nurse.
George Hunt Pendleton - U. S. House of Representatives, Ohio, 1857-1865; Vice-Presidential Candidate, Democratic Party, 1864.
John Perkins, Jr. - U. S. House of Representatives, Louisiana, 1853-1855; Confederate Senator, Louisiana, 1862-1865.
Madison S. Perry - Governor, Florida, 1857-1861.
Walter G. Peter - Confederate Spy.
William A. Petersen - Connected with the President Lincoln Assassination, Pursuit, Investigation, and/or Conspiracy Trial.
Edmund Winston Pettus - Brigadier General, CSA, 1861-1865; U. S. Senator, Alabama, 1897-1907.
John J. Pettus - Governor, Mississippi, 1859-1863.
Robert L. Y. Peyton - Confederate Senator.
James Phelan - Confederate Senator.
John Smith Phelps - U. S. House of Representatives, Missouri, 1845-1863; Colonel, USA, 1861-1862; U. S. Military Governor, Missouri, 1862-1865.
John W. Phelps - Abolitionist.
Mary W. Phelps - Nurse.
Eugenia L. Phillips - Confederate Civilian.
Wendell Phillips - Abolitionist.
Francis Wilkinson Pickens - U. S. Minister to Russia, 1858-1860; Governor, South Carolina, 1860-1862.
John T. Pickett - Diplomat.
Franklin Pierce - U. S. Senator, New Hampshire, 1837-1842; U. S. President (14th), 1853-1857.
Francis H. Pierpont - Governor, West Virginia, 1863-1868.
Allan Pinkerton - Union Spy; Organized the U. S. Secret Service, 1861.
Edward A. Pollard - Journalist; Editor of Richmond Examiner Newspaper.
Samuel Clarke Pomeroy - U. S. Senator, Kansas, 1861-1873.
Samuel M. Pook - U. S. Navy Ship Designer and Builder.
Lazarus Whitehead Powell - Governor, Kentucky, 1851-1855; U. S. Senator, Kentucky, 1859-1865.
John Logan Power - Journalist.
George D. Prentice - Journalist.
John S. Preston - Secessionist.
William Ballard Preston - U. S. Secretary of the Navy, 1849-1850; Confederate Congressman, Virginia, 1861-1862.
Sterling Price - U. S. Congressman, Missouri, 1845-1846; Governor, Missouri, 1853-1857; Major General, CSA, 1862-1865.
Roger Atkinson Pryor - Confederate Congressman, Virginia, 1861; Brigadier General, CSA, 1861-1864; Confederate Congressman, Virginia, 1864.

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Juan Quintero - Diplomat.

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Gabriel James Rains - Confederate General; Confederate Submarine Defense and Munitions Designer; Chief of the Confederate Bureau of Conscription.
Alexander Ramsey - Governor, Minnesota, 1860-1863; U. S. Senator, Minnesota, 1863-1875.
Alexander Williams Randall - Governor, Wisconsin, 1858-1862.
James R. Randall - Poet.
George Wythe Randolph - Confederate Secretary of War, Mar. 1862-Nov. 1862.
Christian Rath - Connected with the President Lincoln Assassination, Pursuit, Investigation, and/or Conspiracy Trial.
Henry R. Rathbone - Connected with the President Lincoln Assassination, Pursuit, Investigation, and/or Conspiracy Trial.
Edwin Godwin Reade - U. S. House of Representatives, North Carolina, 1855-1857; Appointed Confederate Senator, North Carolina, 1863.
John Henninger Reagan - Confederate Postmaster General, 1861-1865; Acting Confederate Secretary of the Treasury, 1865.
Henry M. Rector - Governor, Arkansas, 1860-1862.
Whitelaw Reid - War Correspondent for the Cincinatti Gazette.
Belle Reynolds - Nurse.
Thomas C. Reynolds - Governor.
Robert Barnwell Rhett - U. S. Senator, South Carolina, 1850-1852; Confederate Provisional Congress, South Carolina, 1861.
Henry Mower Rice - U. S. House of Representatives, Minnesota, 1853-1857; U. S. Senator, Minnesota, 1858-1863.
Albert D. Richardson - Journalist.
William Alexander Richardson - U. S. House of Repesentatives, Illinois, 1847-1856 & 1861-1863; U. S. Senator, Illinois, 1863-1865.
George Read Riddle - U. S. House of Representatives, Delaware, 1851-1855; U. S. Senator, Delaware, 1864-1867.
Charles Robinson - Governor, Kansas, 1861-1863.
George F. Robinson - Connected with the President Lincoln Assassination, Pursuit, Investigation, and/or Conspiracy Trial.
James F. Robinson - Governor, Kentucky, 1862-1863.
William S. Rosecrans - General, USA, 1861-1867; U. S. Minister to Mexico, 1868-1869; U. S. House of Representatives, California, 1881-1885.
Edmund Ruffin - Virginia Agriculturist and Secessionist.
Andrew J. Russell - Photographer.
Lord John Russell - Diplomat.
William H. Russell - Journalist.
Samuel Ruth - Union Spy.
Jonathan G. Ryan - Connected with the President Lincoln Assassination, Pursuit, Investigation, and/or Conspiracy Trial.

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Mary J. Safford - Nurse.
Princess Agnes E. W. L. J. Salm-Salm - Nurse.
Edward Salomon - Governor, Wisconsin, 1862-1864.
Franklin B. Sanborn - Abolitionist.
Gove Saulsbury - Governor of Delaware, 1865-1871.
Willard Salsbury - U. S. Senator, Delaware, 1859-1871.
Robert Cumming Schenck - Major General, USA, 1861-1863; U. S. House of Representatives, Ohio, 1863-1871.
Carl Schurz - Brigadier General, 1862-1865; U. S. Senator, Missouri, 1869-1875; U. S. Secreatry of the Interior, 1877-1881.
Dred Scott - Slave and Abolitionist.
John Scully - Union Spy.
William King Sebastian - U. S. Senator, Arkansas, 1848-1861.
James Alexander Seddon - Confederate Provisional Congress, 1861; Confederate Secretary of War, 1862-1865.
Thomas J. Semmes - Confederate Senator.
William Henry Seward - U. S. Senator, New York, 1849-1861; U. S. Secretary of State, 1861-1869.
Horatio Seymour - U. S. Senator, Vermont, 1821-1833.
Alexander M. Shannon - Confederate Spy.
Henry Shaw - Confederate Spy.
Mary E. Shelton - U. S. Sanitary Commission Member.
John Sherman - U. S. House of Representatives, Ohio, 1855-1861; U. S. Senator, Ohio, 1861-1877.
James Shields - U. S. Senator, Illinois, 1849-1855; Brigadier General, 1861-1863; U. S. Senator, Missouri, 1879.
John Gill Shorter - Governor, Alabama, 1861-1863.
Daniel E. Sickles - U. S. House of Representatives, New York, 1857-1861; Major General, 1862-1869.
James Fowler Simmons - U. S. Senator, Rhode Island, 1841-1847, 1857-1862.
William Emmett Simms - U. S. House of Representatives, Kentucky, 1859-1861; Lieutenant Colonel, CSA, 1861-1862; Confederate Senator, 1862-1865.
Otho Robards Singleton - U. S. House of Representatives, Mississippi, 1853-1855, 1857-1861; Confederate Congressman, 1861-1865.
Carrie Sheads - Nurse.
John Slidell - U. S. Senator, Louisiana, 1853-1861; Confederate Commissioner to England & France, 1861.
Henry W. Slocum - General, 1861-1865; U. S. House of Representatives, New York, 1869-1873, 1883-1885.
Robert Small - Union Spy.
George W. Smalley - Abolitionist & Journalist.
Caleb Blood Smith - U. S. House of Representatives, Indiana, 1843-1849; U. S. Secretary of the Interior, 1861-1863.
James Y. Smith - Governor, Rhode Island, 1863-1866.
John Gregory Smith - Governor, Vermont, 1863-1865.
Joseph Smith - Chief of U. S. Naval Board overseeing ship construction.
William Smith - Major General, CSA, 1861-1862; Confederate Congressman, Virginia, 1862; Governor, Virginia, 1864.
William Nathan Harrell Smith - U. S. House of Representatives, North Carolina, 1859-1861; Confederate Congressman, North Carolina, 1862-1865.
Thomas L. Snead - Confederate Congressman.
Edward Spangler - President Lincoln Assassination Conspirator.
Edward Sparrow - Confederate Senator.
James Speed - U. S. Attorney General, Dec. 1864 - July 1866.
Christopher Miner Spencer - Union Armaments Inventor.
William Sprague - Governor, Rhode Island, 1860-1863; U. S. Senator, Rhode Island, 1863-1875.
Amasa L. Stanford - Governor, California, 1862-1863.
Edwin McMasters Stanton - U. S. Secretary of War, Jan. 1862-May 1868.
Benjamin Stark - U. S. Senator, Oregon, 1861-1862.
George L. Stearns - Abolitionist.
Edmund C. Stedman - Poet.
Alexander Hamilton Stephens - U. S. House of Representatives, Georgia, 1843-1859; Confederate Congress, 1861; Confederate Vice-President, 1861-1865.
Thaddeus Stevens - U. S. House of Representatives, Pennsylvania, 1849-1853, 1859-1868.
Joseph B. Stewart - Connected with the President Lincoln Assassination, Pursuit, Investigation, and/or Conspiracy Trial.
Richard H. Stewart - Connected with the President Lincoln Assassination, Pursuit, Investigation, and/or Conspiracy Trial.
William Morris Stewart - U. S. Senator, Nevada, 1864-1875, 1887-1905.
Jerome Bonaparte Stillson - Journalist.
Alban C. Stimers - U. S. Navy Ship Designer and Builder.
Lucy Stone - Abolitionist.
Robert K. Stone - Connected with the President Lincoln Assassination, Pursuit, Investigation, and/or Conspiracy Trial.
William M. Stone - Governor, Iowa, 1864-1868.
Wilbur F. Storey - Journalist.
Harriet Beecher Stowe - Abolitionist.
Charles Sumner - U. S. Senator, Massachusetts, 1851-1874.
John H. Surratt - Confederate spy & President Lincoln Assassination Conspirator.
Mary Surratt - President Lincoln Assassination Conspirator.
Oswald Surratt - Connected with the President Lincoln Assassination, Pursuit, Investigation, and/or Conspiracy Trial.
Oswald Swann - Connected with the President Lincoln Assassination, Pursuit, Investigation, and/or Conspiracy Trial.
Noah H. Swayne - U. S. Supreme Court Justice.
Henry A. Swift - Governor, Minnesota, 1863-1864.
John Swinton - Journalist.
William Swinton - Journalist.

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Charles Taft - Connected with the President Lincoln Assassination, Pursuit, Investigation, and/or Conspiracy Trial.
Roger Brooke Taney - U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice, 1836-1884.
Arthur Tappan - Abolitionist.
Benjamin Tappan - U. S. Senator, Ohio, 1839-1845.
Lewis Tappan - Abolitionist.
Benjamin F. Taylor - Journalist.
Marie Tebe - Nurse.
Eli Thayer - U. S. House of Representatives, Massachusetts, 1857-1861.
Jacob Thompson - Connected with the President Lincoln Assassination, Pursuit, Investigation, and/or Conspiracy Trial.
John Burton Thompson - Lieutenant Governor, Kentucky; 1852; U. S. Senator, Kentucky, 1853-1859.
Edouard Thouvenal - Diplomat.
Samuel Jones Tilden - Post-War Governor of New York & Presidential Candidate, Democratic Party, 1876.
Henry Timrod - Poet.
David Tod - Governor, Ohio, 1862-1864.
Sally L. Tompkins - Confederate Nurse.
Robert Augutus Toombs - Confederate Provisional Congress, 1861; Confederate Secretary of State, 1861; Brigadier General, CSA, 1861-1863.
George A. Townsend - Journalist.
George Alfred Trenholm - Confederate Secretary of the Treasury, July 1864-Apr. 1865.
Lyman Trumbell - U. S. Senator, Illinois, 1855-1873.
Joseph A. Turner - Journalist.
David Turpie - U. S. Senator Indiana, 1863, 1887-1899.
John Tyler - U. S. President (10th), 1841-1845; Confederate Provisional Congress, Virginia, 1861; Confederate Congressman, Virginia, 1862.
Hector Tyndale - Abolitionist.

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John Palmer Usher - U. S. Secretary of the Interior, 1863-1865.

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Clement Laird Vallandigham - U. S. House of Representatives, Ohio, 1858-1863.
Martin Van Buren - U. S. Secretary of State, 1829-1831; U. S. Vice-President, 1833-1837; U. S. President (8th), 1837-1841.
Zebulon Baird Vance - U. S. House of Representatives, North Carolina, 1858-1861; Colonel, CSA, 1861; Governor, North Carolina, 1862-1866, 1876-1878.
Cornelius Vanderbilt - U. S. Navy Ship Designer and Builder.
William Vandever - U. S. House of Representatives, Iowa, 1859-1861; Brevet Major General, USA, 1861-1865; U. S. Senator, California, 1887-1891.
Elizabeth Van Lew - Union Spy.
Peter Godwin Van Winkle - U. S. Senator, West Virginia, 1863-1869.
Charles Henry Van Wyck - U. S. House of Representatives, New York, 1859-1863; Brevet Brigadier General, USA, 1863-1865.
George Graham Vest - Judge Advocate, CSA, 1862; Confederate Congressman, Missouri, 1862-1865; Confederate Senator, Missouri, 1865.
Henry Villard - Journalist.
Charles J. Villeré - Confederate Congressman.

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Benjamin Franklin Wade U. S. Senator, Ohio, 1851-1869.
Leroy Pope Walker - Confederate Secretary of War, Mar. 1861-Sept. 1861.
Richard W. Walker - Confederate Senator.
Israel Washburn, Jr. - U. S. House of Representatives, Maine, 1851-1861; Governor, Maine, 1861-1862.
Elihu Benjamin Washburne - U. S. House of Representatives, Illinois, 1853-1869; U. S. Secretary of State; 1869.
John William Clark Watson - Confederate Senator.
Henry Watterson - Journalist.
Thomas Hill Watts - Confederate Attorney General, Mar. 1862-Dec. 1863; Governor, Alabama, 1863-1865.
James Moore Wayne - U. S. House of Representatives, Georgia, 1829-1835; U. S. Supreme Court Associate Justice, 1835-1867.
Daniel Webster - U. S. Secretary of State, 1841-1843; U. S. Senator, Massachusetts, 1845-1850; U. S. Secretary of State, 1850-1852.
Timothy Webster - Union Spy.
Thurlow Weed - Journalist.
Louis J. Weichmann - Connected with the President Lincoln Assassination, Pursuit, Investigation, and/or Conspiracy Trial.
Theodore D. Weld - Abolitionist.
Gideon Welles - U. S. Secretary of the Navy, Mar. 1861-Mar. 1869.
James M. Wells - Governor.
Joseph Wheeler - General, CSA, 1862-1865; U. S. House of Represenatives, Alabama, 1881-1883, 1885-1900.
John Whiteaker - Governor, Oregon,1858-1862; U. S. House of Representatives, Oregon, 1879-1881.
Walt Whitman - Poet.
John Greenleaf Whittier - Poet.
Williams C. Wickham - Confederate Congressman.
Louis Tresvant Wigfall - U. S. Senator, Texas, 1859-1861; Brigadier General, CSA, 1861-1862; Confederate Senator, Texas, 1862-1865.
John Allen Wilcox - U. S. House of Representatives, Mississippi, 1851-1853; Confederate Congressman, Texas, 1861-1864.
Morton Smith Wilkinson - U. S. Senator, Minnesota, 1859-1865; U. S. House of Representatives, Minnesota, 1869-1871.
Samuel Wilkeson - Journalist.
Franc B. Wilkie - Journalist.
Waitman Thomas Willey - U. S. Senator, Virginia, 1861-1863; U. S. Senator, West Virginia, 1863-1871.
James Williams - Diplomat.
William O. Williams - Confederate Spy.
David Wilmot - U. S. House of Representatives, Pennsylvania, 1845-1851; U. S. Senator, Pennsylvania, 1861-1863; U. S. Court of Claims, 1863-1868.
George D. Wilson - Union Spy.
Henry Wilson - U. S. Senator, Massachusetts, 1855-1873; U. S. Vice-President, 1873-1875.
Robert Wilson - U. S. Senator, Missouri, 1862-1863.
Henry E. Wing - Journalist.
Benjamin Wood - U. S. House of Representatives, New York, 1861-1865, 1881-1883.
Fernando Wood - Mayor, New York City, New York, 1855-1858, 1861-1862; U. S. House of Representatives, New York, 1863-1865, 1867-1881.
Joseph Albert Wright - U. S. Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Prussia, 1857-1861; U. S. Senator, Indiana, 1862-1863.
William Wright - U. S. House of Representatives, New Jersey, 1843-1847; U. S. Senator, New Jersey, 1853-1859, 1863-1866.

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William Lowndes Yancey - U. S. House of Representatives, Alabama, 1844-1846; Confederate Senator, Alabama, 1862-1863.
Richard Yates - U. S. House of Representatives, Illinois, 1851-1855; Governor, Illinois, 1861-1865; U. S. Senator, Illinois, 1865-1871.
Henry H. Young - Union Spy.
John R. Young - Journalist.

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