I was President of the Confederate States of America. I did not want this job.

I was born in South America. I joined the Union Navy and received the Medal of Honor.

I was a general of the Confederate Army and later surrendered at the Appomattox Court House.

I was a war hero and one of the Confederacy’s most successful generals & died by friendly fire.

I was born a slave & the first black soldier to receive the Congressional Medal of Honor.

I served in the Union Army. I am known for my “March to the Sea”; we made a path of destruction

I was appointed General in Chief of the Union Army. I lead the Victory of Vicksburg.

Ends the Civil War as Confederate General Lee surrendered to Union General Ulysses S. Grant.

1st battle of Civil War in the North. Bloodiest 1 day battle in US history with 23,000 dead.

1st major battle of Civil War. Showed Union that Confederates could stand up for themselves.

Turning point of the Civil War; twin Union victory with Battle of Vicksburg in July 1863.

North gained control of the MS River and divided the South. Twin Union victory at Gettysburg.

Changes the nature of the war from preserving the Union to freeing the slaves.

A Union fort in Charleston Harbor was fired upon by Confederate forces. Civil war has begun!

John Wilkes Booth shot President Lincoln at a play at Ford’s Theatre in Washington, D.C.

North elects Pres. Lincoln in 1864 election for 2nd term & any hope to negotiate with Confederate States vanished

Union General William T. Sherman & his men marched through Georgia to scare the South into leaving the Confederacy.