Anderson's brother was Civil War officer and railroad executive John Byers Anderson.

That became Doubleday, a Civil War officer, who was supposed to have laid out the first baseball diamond in a Cooperstown dirt field.

A formal dedication ceremony was held on February 28, 1865, featuring remarks by a Civil War officer and patriotic pageantry.

It was named for a Civil War officer, Confederate General Edmund Rucker.

(In the film "Glory," it worked against him; as a Civil War officer, he looked like a prep school student with a false beard.)

One of his brothers was future Civil War officer Erasmus Burt.

Born in Lancashire, he was one of the few higher-ranked Civil War officers to be born in England.

Five Ohio-born Civil War officers would later serve as the President of the United States.

Some of the homes of noted Civil War officers and political leaders have been restored and are open to the public as museums.

Dunbar Ransom served as a Civil War officer and later became a railroad executive before dying in Texas.