Transcript The Important People of the Civil War

Important Leaders of
the Civil War
Abe Lincoln
• President
• Opposed the
spread of
slavery
• Issued the
Emancipation
Proclamation
Lincoln
• Wrote the Gettysburg
Address
• Wanted to preserve the
Union at all costs
Jefferson Davis
• President
of the
Confederate
States of
America
Ulysses S. Grant
• General of the
Union army
• Defeated Lee
Robert E. Lee
• Leader of the Army of
Northern Virginia
• Offered command of
the Union forces
• Opposed secession
• Urged others to accept
defeat at the end of
the war
Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson
• Confederate
general
• From
Virginia
Frederick Douglass
• Former slave
• Escaped to
the North
• Became an
abolitionist