Abraham Lincoln 16th President of the United States
• Opposed the spread of slavery
• Determined to keep the Union together, by force if necessary
• Believed the U.S. was one nation, not a collection of independent states
• Wrote Gettysburg Address that said the Civil War was to preserve a
government “of the people, by the people and for the people”
• Issued Emancipation Proclamation
Jefferson Davis President of the Confederate States of America
• Moved Confederate capital to Richmond
Ulysses S. Grant Top Union General
• Defeated Lee and accepted his surrender
Robert E. Lee Top Confederate General
• Was leader of the Army of Northern Virginia
• Was offered a command of the Union army, but could not fight against VA
• Opposed secession, but did not believe the Union should be held together by
force
• Urged Southerners to accept defeat at the end of the war and reunite as
Americans when some wanted to fight on
Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson Lee's Top Advisor
• Was a skilled confederate general from Virginia
Civil War Leaders
Important People Review
Harriett Beecher Stowe
• Wrote “Uncle Tom’s Cabin”
• Made people see the evils of slavery
Nat Turner
• Led slave rebellion that scared the South
John Brown
• Fought against slavery in Kansas and at Harpers Ferry
Frederick Douglass
• Former enslaved African American who escaped to the
North and became an abolitionist.