The American Civil War

ISTJ

The governor whose 'my friends' haunted the Draft Riots

ENTJ

The Copperhead leader Lincoln exiled rather than jailed

ENTJ

The only woman ever awarded the Medal of Honor

INFJ

The polemicist who made Whitman a 'Good Gray Poet'

ISFP

The streetcar conductor who became Whitman's closest companion

INFP

The poet who dressed the Union's wounds and mourned its president

ESTJ

'Mother' Bickerdyke, who outranked colonels by sheer will

INTP

The photographer who showed America the true face of war

INTJ

The reformer who imposed order on a nation's asylums and army wards

ISTJ

The 'Angel of the Battlefield' who founded the American Red Cross

ISTJ

The formerly enslaved senator who built his own security first

ISFJ

The minister who became the first Black US senator

ENTJ

The Radical senator one vote from the presidency

ISFJ

The first lady who taught a president to read

ESTJ

The self-made president who nearly lost his office to Reconstruction

ISFJ

The country doctor whose small kindness cost him his freedom

INFP

The great Shakespearean actor shamed by his brother's crime

ISTP

The conspirator who nearly killed Seward the same bloody night

ISFP

The impressionable young accomplice who fled with Booth

ISTJ

The boardinghouse keeper hanged for a conspiracy she may not have known

ESTP

The actor whose final performance killed a president

ISTJ

The steady Union general who helped close the noose at Appomattox

ISFJ

The man whose parlor hosted the war's end

ESTP

The reckless 'Boy General' who rode into legend twice

ISTJ

The engineer-general outmaneuvered by Forrest at Okolona

ESTP

The self-taught cavalry genius behind the Fort Pillow massacre

ISTJ

Sheridan's steady, unglamorous cavalry commander

ESTP

The general whose ride turned a rout into a legend

ESTP

The Confederate cavalryman who later charged for the flag he once fought

ESTP

The reckless cavalryman nicknamed 'Kill-Cavalry'

ISFJ

The 'Christian General' who built an unlikely bridge to Reconstruction

ISTJ

The senator brother who financed the Union's war machine

ISFJ

The devout wife who anchored a restless general through grief and glory

ENTJ

The general who turned total war into the North's winning strategy

ESFP

The general whose doomed charge up Cemetery Ridge became the Confederacy's high-water mark

ISFJ

The general Lincoln wanted to lead the army — killed in the opening hour of Gettysburg

ESTJ

"Hancock the Superb" — the general who held the Union center against Pickett's Charge, wound and all

ISTP

The cavalry commander whose snap judgment about a ridgeline decided where Gettysburg would be fought

INFJ

The professor-turned-colonel whose bayonet charge on Little Round Top may have saved the Union line

ISTJ

The irritable, methodical general handed command three days before Gettysburg — and won it

ISFJ

The soldier who carried the flag through Fort Wagner and refused to let it touch the ground

INFP

The Boston abolitionist's son who led the 54th Massachusetts into the fire at Fort Wagner

INTJ

The "Father of Black Nationalism" who broke with Douglass over what freedom would actually require

ENFJ

The abolitionist orator who turned her own body and voice into an argument no one could dismiss

ENTJ

The enslaved pilot who stole a Confederate warship and sailed his family to freedom

INFJ

The Underground Railroad conductor who became the first woman to lead a Union combat raid

ISFJ

The gunboat commander whose river bombardment broke Fort Henry almost single-handedly

ESTP

"Damn the torpedoes" — the admiral who ran his fleet through a minefield to take Mobile Bay

INTJ

The Seneca chief who wrote out Lee's surrender terms in his own hand at Appomattox

ISTJ

Grant's closest friend and chief of staff — the one man willing to confront his drinking

ESFJ

The First Lady whose steady devotion gave the notoriously reticent Grant his anchor

ISTP

The failed clerk who became the Union's most relentless general — and eventually its president

ESTJ

The general whose boastful arrival speech and crushing defeat became a cautionary tale

ISTJ

The detective whose exhaustive case files convinced McClellan he was always outnumbered

INTP

"Old Brains" — the theorist-general who ran the war from a desk and hesitated everywhere else

ESTP

"Fighting Joe" — bold enough to outflank Lee, and then lost his nerve at the moment of contact

ISFJ

The general who accepted command out of duty, then marched his men into slaughter at Fredericksburg

ENTJ

The general who built the Union's finest army and could never bring himself to risk it

ISTJ

The mapmaker whose meticulous surveys turned Virginia's terrain into Jackson's secret weapon

ESTP

The reckless cavalier whose daring screened Jackson's Valley Campaign — and got him killed

ENTJ

Lee's "bad old man" who raided the gates of Washington, then spent decades rewriting the war's memory

ISTP

The eccentric one-legged general who inherited Jackson's corps — and its impossible standard

ISFJ

The widow who spent fifty years guarding Stonewall Jackson's memory from the world

ISTJ

The Confederate general whose iron discipline and lightning marches made him Lee's most feared weapon

ESTJ

The wealthiest planter in the South, who funded and led his own legion into war

ESFP

Lee's flamboyant cavalry commander, whose late arrival at Gettysburg left Lee blind

ISTJ

Lee's steadiest corps commander, who argued against Pickett's Charge and was overruled

INFP

Robert E. Lee's wife, who fled Arlington as it became a Union cemetery and never got it back

ESTJ

The aging general whose mocked 'Anaconda Plan' became the Union's actual winning strategy

ISFJ

The general who could not raise a sword against Virginia, and became the Confederacy's most feared commander

INTJ

The Radical Republican who pushed Lincoln toward emancipation faster than he wanted to go

ESTP

The congressman who answered a speech with a cane, and became a Southern hero for it

INFJ

The senator beaten unconscious on the Senate floor for a speech against slavery

UNTYPED

The enslaved man whose eleven-year lawsuit for freedom ended in the Supreme Court's most reviled ruling

INTJ

The Chief Justice whose sweeping ruling to settle slavery only inflamed it

ENTP

The Little Giant whose clever compromise on slavery split his own party and elected his rival

ISTP

The fugitive who heard the raid was doomed and chose to join it anyway

ISTP

The son who fought beside his father at Harpers Ferry and made the escape few others survived

ISTJ

John Brown's wife, who raised thirteen children and buried the ones the raid and the cause did not spare

INTJ

The polymath preacher whose 'arc of the moral universe' outlived him by a century

ENFJ

The minister who funded Brown's raid, then led Black troops into combat himself

INFJ

The wealthy idealist who funded John Brown, then broke down when the raid failed

ENFJ

The Boston aristocrat who gave up his class to become the movement's other great orator

INFP

The novelist whose sentimental bestseller made slavery unbearable to readers who had never seen it

ENFP

The uncompromising editor of The Liberator, who would not equivocate and would be heard

ENTJ

The man who escaped slavery, then spent decades arguing it down in print and on stage

INFJ

The prophet who decided slavery could only be ended by force, and acted alone on it

ENTJ

The fire-eater who spent thirty years demanding this war, then found no place in running it

ENTP

The diarist whose unsparing private record of Confederate society became its best autopsy

INTJ

The older half-brother who raised, financed, and shaped Jefferson Davis

ESTP

The nearly-president who hated his desk job and quit it to go fight instead

ISTJ

The rigid disciplinarian general his own officers tried to have removed

INTJ

The general whose feud with Jefferson Davis over rank outlasted most of his battles

ENTP

Davis's indispensable fixer, reassigned through three cabinet posts and untouched by scandal

INTP

The Confederate vice president who said slavery was the cause out loud, then spent the war fighting his own president

ENFP

The Confederacy's First Lady, sharper and more doubtful of the cause than her husband

ISTJ

The reluctant, rule-bound president who tried to run a revolution by the book

ISTJ

Lincoln's first vice president, sidelined by an office with almost nothing to do

ESTP

Lincoln's self-appointed bodyguard, who was away on the one night it mattered most

ISFJ

The formerly enslaved dressmaker who bought her freedom and became Mary Lincoln's closest confidante

ISFJ

The Springfield roommate who talked a young, depressed Lincoln through his darkest winter

ENFP

Lincoln's law partner of sixteen years, who spent the rest of his life trying to explain him

ISTJ

Lincoln's senior secretary and gatekeeper, who spent decades afterward guarding his archive

ENFP

Lincoln's 22-year-old private secretary, who lived in the White House and later helped write its history

INTJ

The Treasury Secretary who built the nation's wartime finances while quietly running for Lincoln's job

ESTJ

The War Secretary who turned a corrupt department into the machine that ran the Union war effort

ENTP

The presumed front-runner for 1860 who lost to Lincoln, then became his most trusted cabinet ally

ESFJ

The First Lady whose grief for two dead sons played out in the full glare of a divided capital

INTP

The self-taught Illinois lawyer who reasoned his way to the presidency and to emancipation, one argument at a time