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Starting from Abrham Lincoln (not a soldier, but Commander-in-Chief):
Andrew Johnson was military governor of the Union-occupied portion of Tennessee during part of the war with the nominal rank of Brigadier General.
Ulysses Grant was, of course, the Commanding General of the Union Army.
Rutherford Hayes was also a Brigadier General.
James Garfield was a Major General in the war.
Chester Arthur was another Brigadier General, but never was actually in or even particularly near combat; he spent most of the war well behind the lines as a recruiter in New York.
Grover Cleveland was never in the army at all... the Conscription Act of 1863 allowed men to hire a substitute to serve for them, and Cleveland did so.
Benjamin Harrison - Brigadier General (noticing a theme here?).
William McKinley - Captain, brevet Major, served under Hayes.
Theodore Roosevelt, William Taft, and Woodrow Wilson were all children (under 10 years old) at the time of the Civil War, and all presidents since were born after it. (Roosevelt was a soldier (Colonel), but it was in the Spanish-American war, not the Civil War.)
So, all told: five Civil War combat veterans, two more who were in the military at the time but not in combat, and one civilian head of the military during the war (Lincoln).
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