People of the Civil War

Abolitionist who urged Lincoln to recruit African-American soldiers

• Harriet Tubman

• Frederick Douglass

• Robert E. Lee

• Stonewall Jackson

Abolitionist who led slaves to freedom on the Underground Railroad

• Abraham Lincoln

• Harriet Beecher Stowe

• Harriet Tubman

• Stonewall Jackson

Author of Uncle Tom's Cabin, depicting the atrocities of slavery and increasing abolitionism

• Harriet Beecher Stowe

• Harriet Tubman

• Abraham Lincoln

• Frederick Douglass

Abolitionist who led a raid on Harper's Ferry during Bleeding Kansas and tried to start a slave rebellion

• Frederick Douglass

• John Brown

• Ulysses S. Grant

• Abraham Lincoln

President of the Union

• Jefferson Davis

• Robert E. Lee

• Ulysses S. Grant

• Abraham Lincoln

President of the Confederacy

• Jefferson Davis

• Robert E. Lee

• Ulysses S. Grant

• Abraham Lincoln

Famous Union general, uses Union's advantages of men and resources.

• Stonewall Jackson

• Ulysses S. Grant

• Robert E. Lee

• Jefferson Davis

Famous Confederate general who originally opposed secession and often won battles against superior Union armies

• Abraham Lincoln

• Ulysses S. Grant

• Robert E. Lee

• Jefferson Davis

Famous Confederate general, gained fame at First Battle of Bull Run and was shot by fellow Confederate troops

• Stonewall Jackson

• Ulysses S. Grant

• Robert E. Lee

• Frederick Douglass

Famous Union general who received recognition for military strategy as well as criticism for his "total war" policies

• Robert E. Lee

• Ulysses S. Grant

• William T. Sherman

• Stonewall Jackson