CIVIL WAR LEADERS

ROBERT E.LEE

• Leader of the army of northern virginia
• Offered command of the union forces at the beginning of the war,but chose not to fight against Virginia
• 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

ULYSSES S. GRANT

• General of the Union army that defeated Lee

ABRAHAM LINCOLN

• President of the United States
• Opposed the spread of slavery
• Issued the Emancipation Proclimation
• Determined to preserve the Union, by force if necessary
• Believed the United States was one nation, not a collection of independent states
• Rote the Gettysburg Address that said the Civil War was to preserve a government “of the people, by the people, and for the people.”

ROBERT SMALLS

• African American sailor and later a Union naval captain
• Highly honored for his feats of bravery and heroism
• Became a congressman after the war

FREDRIC DOUGLAS

• Enslaved African American who escaped to north and became an abolitionist

THOMAS”STONEWALL”JACKSON

• Skilled confederate general from Virginia

JEFFERSON DAVIS

• President of Confederate States of America