People of the Civil War

16th president of the United States (1861 - 1865)

Gave the Gettysburg Address (1863)

Issued the Emancipation Proclamation ( 1863)

• Abraham Lincoln

• Jefferson Davis

• Ulysses S. Grant

First and only President of the Confederate States of America

He was captured by Northern soldiers in Georgia in 1865

• Abraham Lincoln

• Jefferson Davis

• Ulysses S. Grant

Commanded the Union Army during the Civil War (1861-1865)

Served as the 18th US President from 1869-1877

• Abraham Lincoln

• Jefferson Davis

• Ulysses S. Grant

One of the South's most successful generals

He earned his nickname at the First Battle of Bull Run

• Ulysses S. Grant

• Stonewall Jackson

• Robert E. Lee

Led the Confederate Army of Virginia during the Civil War

Surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox on April 9, 1865

• Ulysses S. Grant

• Stonewall Jackson

• Robert E. Lee

A nurse during the Civil War

Known as the "Angel of the Battlefield"

She later began the American Red Cross

• Clara Barton

• Harriet Tubman

• Sojourner Truth

A slave who escaped to the North in 1838 to become free.

Worked with abolitionists to end slavery

Fought for the rights of black soldiers during the war

• Clara Barton

• Sojourner Truth

• Harriet Tubman

Born a slave on a plantation in Maryland

After escaping to the North, she became a leader in the Underground Railroad.

• Sojourner Truth

• Harriett Tubman

• Frederick Douglass

An abolitionist and women's rights activist during the Civil War

Traveled around the country preaching and working against injustice

• Sojourner Truth

• Harriett Tubman

• Frederick Douglass