IMPORTANT PEOPLE THAT HAD AN IMPACT ON THE CIVIL WAR

HARRIET TUBMAN

• Harriet Tubman is most famously known as a female abolitionist. She spent her time helping other people or slaves. She worked for the Union as a cook, spy and a nurse.
• she had inside information from her scouts, the Union gunboats were able to surprise the Confederate rebels.
• Tubman worked as a nurse during the war, trying to heal the sick. Many people in the hospital died from dysentery, a disease associated with terrible diarrhea. Tubman was sure she could help cure the sickness if she could find some of the same roots and herbs that grew in Maryland.
• She later became a leader in the abolitionist movement, and during the Civil War.

ABRAHAM LINCOLN

• The civil war with the opening bombardment of fort Sumter,South Carolina on April 12 1861,Lincoln forced the confederate hand with his decisions to supply the fort, which had suddenly become an outpost in a hostile nation.
• As commander in chief he legally held the highest rank in the United States armed forces and he diligently exercised his authority through strategic planning weapons testing and the promotion and demotion of officer.
• The Lincoln administration did more than just manage the civil war, although his revelations could still be felt in a number of policies.
• Throughout the war Lincoln struggled to find capable generals for his armies.

FREDERICK DOUGLAS

• Frederick was a prominent American abolitionist author and orator
• During the civil war, Douglas was a consult to president Abraham Lincoln and helped convince him that slaves should serve in the Union forces and that the abolition of slavery should be a goal of the war.
• Douglas worked as a recruiter in several regions of the country signing up African Americans to serve in the union army.
• African Americans were ready and willing to fight in the Civil War, but President Lincoln and Union leaders were not sure how they felt about enlisting black troops.

CLARA BARTON

• Clara Barton worked as a nurse and spent her time caring for the sick. She worked out of her tent as well as for the Union, she would travel with the Union to controlled coastal regions around Charleston, South Carolina.
• 1861 Barton came to Washington, D.C. and when the Civil War began, she was one of the first volunteers to appear at the Washington Infirmary to care for wounded and ill soldiers.
• She also cared for soldiers wounded at Antietam. Barton was nicknamed "the angel of the battlefield" for her work.
• At the beginning, she collected and distributed supplies for the Union Army. Not content sitting on the sidelines, Barton served as an independent nurse and first saw combat in Fredericksburg, Virginia, in 1862.

STONEWALL JACKSON

• Stonewall Jackson was a leading Confederate general during the U.S. Civil War, commanding forces at Manassas, Antietam, Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville.
• Was a war hero and one of the South’s most successful generals during the American Civil War (1861-65)
• Jackson spent 10 years as a professor of artillery tactics and natural philosophy (similar to modern-day physics) at the Virginia Military Institute in Lexington.

JAMESLONGSTREET

• James Longstreet was a U.S. Army officer, government official and most famously known as a lieutenant general in the Confederate Army during the Civil War in 1861 to 1865.
• Longstreet was devoted to serving the interests of the South. At the start of the Civil War in 1861 he resigned from the Army and offered his services to Alabama. He was then sent to Richmond, Virginia, and commissioned as a brigadier general.
• October 1861 he was promoted to the rank of major general and given control of a division. His first significant action in this role came during the Peninsula Campaign in the summer of 1862, when the Confederate Army came at Union General George B. McClellan’s march toward Richmond during the Seven Days Battles.
• At the outbreak of the Civil War, Longstreet, was then serving in New Mexico Territory, resigned his commission after almost twenty years of service.

ROBERT E. LEE

• Robert E. Lee served as a military officer in the U.S. Army, a West Point commandant and the legendary general of the Confederate Army during the American Civil War (1861-65).
• In June 1861, Lee assumed command of the Army of Northern Virginia, which he would lead for the rest of the war.
• When General Joseph E. Johnston was wounded at the Battle of Seven Pines on May 31, Lee took command of what became the Army of Northern Virginia. He successfully had the efforts of Union general George McClellan in the Peninsular campaign, at the end, with the Battles of Seven Days Oak, Gaine’s Mill, Garnett’s and Golding’s Farms, Savage’s Station and Allen’s Farm, White Oak Swamp, and Malvern Hill. .
• Victories were won through Lee’s aggressiveness and daring in the face of McClellan’s timidity rather than by any comprehensive generalship on Lee’s part, for he was unable to exercise control over his subordinate commanders, and the individual battles could be considered tactical defeats

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• Booth had a very active role in politics during the years before and during the Civil War. During his teen years he was active with the Know Nothings, an anti-immigrant political party. He was pro-slavery and abolitionists.
• . On the night of April 14th, 1865, Booth entered Ford's Theater and was the assassinate of president Abe Lincoln.

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• History.com Staff. "Frederick Douglass." History.com. A&E Television Networks, 2009. Web. 25 May 2017.
• Harriet Tubman |America's Library - Library of Congress. N.p., n.d. Web. 25 May 2017
• Douglass's Role in the Civil War. N.p., n.d. Web. 25 May 2017
• "Clara Barton." Civil War Trust. Civil War Trust, n.d. Web. 25 May 2017.
• Royster, Charles. "Lees Tarnished Lieutenant: James Longstreet and His Place in Southern History, and: James Longstreet: Lees War Horse (review)." Civil War History 34.3 (1988): 273-75. Web.

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