1. Important Women and African Americans in the Civil War. By: Mitchell Northern

2. Dorothea Dix Dorothea Dix was 60 years old when the Civil War began. Dorothea, despite her age was assigned to head north nurses in the medical facilities. Dorothea took the significance to heart and immediately set standards for nurses.

3. Mary Ann Ball Bickerdyke She was known as Mother Bickerdyke in her hometown of Galesburg, Illinois. She launched a campaign to clean up the hospitals in Cairo where she was stationed Mary frequently searched the battlefields at night to find any wounded that might have been overlooked by the stretcher brigade.

4. Harriet Tubman Harriet was born around 1820 in Dorchester Country in Maryland. When Harriet was 13, she got hit in the head by an iron weight and that caused her to have sleeping spells for the rest of her life. During the Civil War, Harriet served as a Union spy and a nurse.

5. Frederick Douglass Frederick A. Douglass was born in the year 1817 in a Maryland plantation. The real name given to him was Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey. On September 3,1838, he escaped the plantation and settled in New Bedford, Massachusetts and there he changed from his real name to Frederick Douglass, and also there he wrote his autobiography.

6. Jefferson Davis Jefferson was born in Christian County (now called Todd County) Kentucky on June 3, 1808. Jefferson was the only president of the confederacy and a decorated war veteran and politician He was a U.S. Senator two times but never finished either term.

7. Alexander Hamilton Stephens Alex was the vice president of the Confederate States of America. He was born February 11, 1812 near Crawfordsville, Georgia. In 1842, Alex was elected the State Senator.

8. Abraham Lincoln Abraham Lincoln was elected in president in 1860 and the same year seven states left the Union. In his campaign, Lincoln firmly pressed against slavery and was determined to limit the expansion of slavery to the new territories acquired from Mexico. Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation in the year 1863.

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