Leaders+Of+The+Civil+War+9d

THE NORTH VS. THE SOUTH, and uh, here are some of the important peeps

ABRAHAM LINCOLN
 * Was president of the USA
 * Opposed the spread slavery
 * Issued the Emancipation Proclamation
 * Determined to preserve the Union (If nessasary-by force)
 * Beleived the United States were ONE nation, we cannot be divided
 * Wrote the Gettysberg address that said the Civil war was to preserve a government "of the people, by the people, and for the people)

ULYSSES S. GRANT
 * General of the Union Army
 * Defeated Robert E. Lee ( well Robert Surrendered to him)

FREDERICK DOUGLASS
 * Former Slave
 * Excaped and became an abolitionist

JEFFERSON DAVIS
 * President of the CSA
 * (He was also some other stuff we have not studied yet)

THOMAS "STONEWALL" JACKSON
 * General From Virginia

ROBERT E. LEE
 * Leader of the army of northern Virginia
 * Was offered command of the Union forces at the beginning of the was, but chose not to fight against Virginia
 * Opposed succesion 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

AKiRA C00K C0R3 2 5-19-08