Comprehensive Biographies of Senior Union Generals

Click here for in-depth biographies of selected Union Army generals.  These include Scribner’s Dictionary of American Biography, Appletons’ Cyclopaedia of American Biography, and the Federal Publishing Company’s The Union Army: A History of Military Affairs in the Loyal States 1861-65—Records of the Regiments in the Union Army—Cyclopedia of Battles—Memoirs of Commanders and Soldiers, Vol. VIII, Biographical.

Generals of the Union Army 1861-1865

Scribner’s Dictionary of American Biography
Click Here for a complete listing of Union Generals from Scribner’s Dictionary of American Biography. Source: Dictionary of American Biography, Volumes I-X, Edited by Dumas Malone, New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1930.

Federal Publishing Company’s The Union Army
Click here for short biographical sketches of every officer who attained the full rank of major or brigadier-general during the war. Those who received these titles by brevet only are not included. Source: The Union Army, Vol. VIII, Biographical. Madison, Wisconsin: Federal Publishing Company, 1908.