• Abraham Lincoln
  • Elected as President of the United States in 1860
  • South Carolina seceded from the Union in December of 1860, by March of 1861
  • six more states had left and formed the Confederate States of America (CSA)
  • 1863 announced the Emancipation Proclamation, ending slavery in the southern states
  • Called for 75, 000 men to volunteer for military service to strengthen the Union troops
  • Assassinated in April of 1865, five days after Lee surrendered to Grant ending the Civil War
  • Jefferson Davis
  • Southern plantation owner/cotton farmer that understood the Souths need for slavery to supply the demand forncotton
  • Served as a Representative and a Senator for the state of Mississippi
  • Served as the Secretary of State for President Pierce
  • Appointed as the President of the CSA
  • When Civil War ended he was arrested and charged with treason and spent two years in jail but was never tried or convicted of a crime
  • U. S. Grant
  • Attended and graduated from West Point, the US military academy, was not a good student and graduated next to last in his class
  • Distinguished himself at the Battle of Shiloh, he proved to Lincoln that Grant was a general who fought, even facing adverse circumstances
  • October 1863, Grant took command at Chattanooga, Tennessee and began to develop plans for the Atlanta Campaign
  • In order to win the war Grant appointed Sherman to command the troops in the Georgia and bring the South to her knees
  • Supported Sherman in tactic of _total war_ and _scorched earth_
  • Robert E. Lee
  • Robert was appointed to attend West Point in 1825, he graduated second in his class in 1829, with no demerits and high honors
  • Abraham Lincoln as president, offered Lee the rank of brigadier general in the Union Army but Lee refused
  • Was offered to be commander of the army of volunteers being raised to suppress the Southern rebellion; that same day, Virginia voted in favor of secession. Lee did not support secession, but he would not fight against his native state so he refused
  • Was appointed to head the Confederate Army
  • Surrendered to U.S. Grant at Appomattox Courthouse on April 9, 1865
  • William T. Sherman
  • Most widely known of the Union military leaders after U. S. Grant
  • Served as commander of the U.S. armies in the Western Theatre
  • Knew that the war would not end quickly as most people had thought
  • Determined to bring the war to the people of the South, make them experience the horror of war and surrender, developed the theory of “total war” and scorched earth.
  • His March to the Sea burned everything in a path over 200 miles long and 60 feet wide from Atlanta to Savannah, he did not burn

Savannah instead gave it to Lincoln as a Christmas present.

  • Stonewall Jackson
  • Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson was a Confederate lieutenant general in the Civil War.
  • Only General Robert E. Lee occupies a higher place in respect and admiration
  • In the Battle of First Bull Run (First Battle of Manassas). Infantry under South Carolinian brigadier general Bernard Bee had been engaged for some time and were falling back; Jackson’s brigade was in reserve. Bee told his men, "There

stands Jackson like a stone wall,"

  • Aware Federal cavalry was in the area, the North Carolinian Calvary mistook the Jackson and his men for enemy horsemen and opened fire. From somewhere, probably the men of the 18th North Carolina, came another volley. Jackson was

hit in his right hand and left wrist. A third ball broke his upper left arm.

  • He died May 10, 1863 from the injuries received in the friendly fire accident