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People Civil War
People of the Civil War
Person | What he/she did |
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William Carney | First African American to receive the Congressional Medal of Honor |
Clara Barton | The 'Angel of the Battlefield:" founded the American Red Cross |
Frederick Douglass | An escaped slave who became a leading African American abolitionist, accomplished orator, and writer. |
Stonewall Jackson | Confederate general in the Civil War; Battle of Bull Run |
Harriet Tubman | Conductor on the Underground Railroad leading many African American slaves to freedom |
Belle Boyd | Confederate spy during the Civil War known for her cunning and manipulation of soldiers |
Robert Gould Shaw | Commander of the 54th Massachusetts Infantry, the first all-black regiment in the Union Army. |
Harriet Beecher Stowe | Author of "Uncle Tom's Cabin" which helped incite the Civil War |
Abraham Lincoln | President of the United States from 1861-1865 during the Civil War; issued the Emancipation Proclamation |
Jefferson Davis | President of the Confederate States of America |
Ulysses S. Grant | General-in-chief of the Union Army during the Civil War; accepted Lee's surrender at Appomattox to end the war |
Robert E. Lee | A commander of the Confederacy; surrendered to Grant at Appomattox to end the war |