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Robert Anderson (1805–1871): Union major who surrendered Fort Sumter to Confederates in April 1861

John Andrew (1818–1867): governor of Massachusetts, 1860–66; organized the Fifty-Fourth Massachusetts Regiment, the first black Northern unit in the Civil War

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Pierre G. T. Beauregard (1818–1893): Confederate general who captured Fort Sumter in April 1861; also served at First Bull Run and Shiloh

John Wilkes Booth (1838–1865): American actor who assassinated President Abraham Lincoln

Braxton Bragg (1817–1876): Confederate general who led the Army of Mississippi and the Army of Tennessee; fought at Perryville, Chickamauga, and Chattanooga

James Buchanan (1791–1868): fifteenth president of the United States,...