The Civil War

President of the United States during the Civil War.

• Jefferson Davis

• Ulysses S. Grant

• Abraham Lincoln

• James Buchanan

Major military leader of the Southern forces

• William Tecumseh Sherman

• Robert E. Lee

• Ulysses S. Grant

• Alexander Stephens

President of the Confederacy

• Abraham Lincoln

• Jefferson Davis

• Alexander Stephens

• Robert E. Lee

Robert E. Lee's best general. He became a legend at the battle of Bull Run

• Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson

• Pierre Gustave Toutant-Beauregard

• George Pickett

• Ambrose Burnside

Capital of the Confederacy

• Washington D.C.

• Charlotte, South Carolina

• Vicksburg, Mississippi

• Richmond, Virginia

This brutality of this battle shocked the nation. Many people blamed Ulysses S. Grant for not being prepared for a surprise attack by the Confederates.

• Shiloh

• Bull Run

• Seven Days

• Antietam

Northern General who captured Fort Henry and Fort Donelson.

• George McClellan

• Albert Sidney Johnston

• Ulysses S. Grant

• Andrew Butler

Number of Confederate States

• 11

• 13

• 32

• 7

Northern Ironclad ship

• Monitor

• Virginia

• Cumberland

• Minnesota

Southern Ironclad ship

• Virginia

• Monitor

• Cumberland

• Minnesota