1. Important Leaders of the Civil War

2. Abe Lincoln President Opposed the spread of slavery
Issued the Emancipation Proclamation

3. Lincoln Wrote the Gettysburg Address
Wanted to preserve the Union at all costs

4. Jefferson Davis
President of the Confederate States of America

5. Ulysses S. Grant
General of the Union army
Defeated Lee

6. Robert E. Lee Leader of the Army of Northern Virginia
Offered command of the Union forces
Opposed secession
Urged others to accept defeat at the end of the war

7. Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson
Confederate general
From Virginia

8. Frederick Douglass Former slave Escaped to the North
Became an abolitionist