Civil War Leaders USI 9d
Abraham Lincoln President of the United States Against the spread of slavery Issued the Emancipation Proclamation
Believed the United States was one nation Determined to keep the Union together even if by force Wrote the Gettysburg Address
Emancipation Proclamation Said that all slaves were now free. Said that slavery was illegal
Gettysburg Address Speech given at the cemetery in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania after the battle
Jefferson Davis President of the Confederate States of America
Ulysses S. Grant General of the Union (North) army that defeated Lee
Robert E. Lee Leader of the army of Northern Virginia Offered command of the Union forces but did not want to fight against Virginia
Opposed secession, but did not believe in keeping the Union together by force Urged Southerners to accept defeat at the end of the war and reunite as Americans
Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson Skilled Confederate General from Virginia
Frederick Douglass Former enslaved African American who escaped to the North and became an abolitionist