Abolitionists & Important Civil War Historians

I am most famous for leading the country during the American Civil War. His leadership in the North helped the country to remain strong and defeat the South keeping the country united. He also pushed for the freedom of all slaves throughout the nation.

• Abraham Lincoln

• Donald Trump

• Barack Obama

I became famous as an Underground Railroad conductor. I led nineteen different escapes from the south and helped around 300 slaves to escape. I became known as "Moses" because, like the Moses in the Bible, I led my people to freedom.

• Harriet Beecher Stowe

• Harriet Tubman

• Clara Barton

I commanded during many famous Civil War battles including the Seven Days Battle, the Battle of Antietam, the Battle of Fredericksburg, the Battle of Gettysburg, the Battle of Cold Harbor, and the Battle of Appomattox.

• Robert E. Lee

• Ulysses S. Grant

• Stonewall Jackson

I first gained fame as an army commander at the First Battle of Bull Run. At one point during the battle it looked like the Union soldiers would break through the Confederate lines. I and my troops dug in at Henry House Hill and refused to budge. We held off the Union attack long enough for reinforcements to arrive. This daring stand helped the Confederates to win the battle.

• Ulysses S. Grant

• Robert E. Lee

• Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson

I am most known for being the lead general of the Union troops during the American Civil War. My fame as a war hero propelled me into the White House as the 18th President.

• Thomas Jefferson

• Robert E. Lee

• Ulysses Grant

In 1851, I began writing a story about slavery. I wanted to help people in the North to understand better the realities of slavery. Initially, a new portion of the story came out each week in a newspaper called the National Era. The story became very popular and the installments were published as an entire book called Uncle Tom's Cabin in 1852.

• Harriet Tubman

• Sojourner Truth

• Harriet Beecher Stowe

I was an African-American abolitionist and women's rights activist. I was born into slavery in Swartekill, Ulster County, New York, but escaped with my infant daughter to freedom in 1826.

• Sojourner Truth

• Rosa Parks

• Harriet Tubman

I was an American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman. After escaping from slavery in Maryland, I became a national leader of the abolitionist movement in Massachusetts and New York, gaining note for my oratory and incisive antislavery writings.

• Martin Luther King

• Frederick Douglas

• Abe Lincoln

I printed an antislavery newspaper called The Liberator.

• Jefferson Davis

• John Brown

• William Lloyd Garrison

I was an American soldier, businessman, educator, and author. He served as a general in the Union Army during the American Civil War (1861–65), for which he received recognition for his outstanding command of military strategy in conducting total war against the Confederate States.^[2]

• Ulysses Grant

• William T. Sherman

• Robert E. Lee