Transcript Civil War PowerPoint

Leaders of the Civil War
SOL VS 7B
Abraham Lincoln
• President of the United
States during the Civil
War.
• His election was one of
the reasons the southern
states seceded.
• He signed the
Emancipation
Proclamation that freed
all southern slaves.
Jefferson Davis
• President of the
Confederate States of
America.
• Was found guilty of
treason at the end of the
war, and spent two years
in prison.
• Treason: Trying to over
throw the government.
Monument Ave. Jefferson Davis
Ulysses Grant
• Leader of the Union Army.
• General Lee surrendered
to him at the Appomattox
Court House in 1865 to
end the Civil War.
• After the Civil War, he was
elected the 18th President
of the United States.
Robert E. Lee
• Leader of the Confederate
Army.
• Lincoln offered him the position
of head of the Union Army, but
he said no.
• He said no because he didn’t
want to fight his friends and
family.
• Surrendered to Ulysses Grant
at the Appomattox Court
House in 1865.
Monument Ave. Robert E. Lee
Thomas
“Stonewall”
Jackson
Thomas Jackson
• General in the Confederate
Army.
• Was a leader at the first
Battle of Bull Run.
• Got his nickname Stonewall
for “standing like a stone
wall” in battle.
• Died of pneumonia after
being accidentally shot by
one of his own soldiers.
Monument Ave. Stonewall Jackson
J.E.B. Stuart
• A Confederate Army
General from Virginia
during the Civil War
• Followed Lee’s orders to
crush John Brown’s raid
at Harper’s Ferry
• Died in 1864 and is
buried in Hollywood
Cemetery
• “The Eyes of the
Confederacy”
Monument Ave. JEB Stuart