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War Divides A Nation
Famous men
and women
of the
American
Civil War
The Cast
The Abolitionists
• Abolitionists were men and women,
both white and black, who fiercely
opposed slavery.
The Ones Who Started It All
• Harriet Beecher
Stowe wrote the
book, Uncle Tom’s
Cabin, that gave
insight into the
harsh existence for
slaves.
The Ones Who Started It All
• John Brown
captured the
armory at Harper’s
Ferry, West Virginia.
He was hanged for
treason and
conspiring with
slaves.
Those Who Spoke Out
Lucretia Mott
Sarah Grimke
William
Lloyd Garrison
Levi and Catherine Coffin
Those Who Stood Up
David Walker
Frederick Douglass
Harriet Tubman
“Moses”
Sojourner Truth
The Statesmen
• Politicians and spokesmen from the
North and the South had plenty to say
about slavery, states’ rights, and
secession.
Two Presidents
• President Abraham
Lincoln fought to keep
the United States
together.
• Jefferson Davis, a
former US senator,
became the leader of
the Confederate States
of America.
The First Ladies
• Mary Todd Lincoln
• Varina Howell Davis
The Compromisers
• Henry Clay, author of
the Missouri
Compromise of 1850
• Stephen Douglass ran
against Abraham
Lincoln for president,
advocating states’
rights and the
continuation of slavery.
Slaves who changed history
Joseph
Cinque led
the Amistad
revolt and
won
freedom for
all slaves
aboard
Dred Scott
fought for
his
freedom
before the
Supreme
Court
Nat Turner led a
slave revolt that put
all slave owners on
their gaurd
Soldiers of the Blue
and the Gray
Commanding Generals
The Union
The
Confederac
y
Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee both gradated
from West Point and neither supported slavery or
secession. Yet their battle against each other
remains one of the finest examples of military
strategic warfare of all time.
Union Generals
Ambrose Burnside
William Sherman
George McClellan
“Fighting Joe” Hooker
Joshua Chamberlain
Robert Anderson
Confederate Generals
Stonewall Jackson
Pierre Beauregard
George Pickett
Braxton Bragg
James Longstreet
J.E.B. Stuart
Special Soldiers
Sarah Emma Edmonds was one of a handful of women
who disguised themselves in order to fight in the
war.
William Carney distinguished himself amongst the
famous, all Black, 54th Regiment from
Massachusetts.
Spies
N
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h
Elizabeth
Van Lew
Mary Bowser
Pauline Cushman
S
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Belle Boyd
Loretta Valesquez
Rose O’Neil
Greenhow
Nurses…
Annie Etheridge
Dorothea Dix
Clara Barton
“Mother” Mary
Bickerdyke
Phoebe Pember
Susie Baker King
…and Doctors
In a time when
women were not
allowed to be
surgeons, these
women saved
soldiers’ lives
and changed
history.
Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell
Dr. Mary Edwards Walker
Supporting
Cast
• There were hundreds of common citizens who
contributed to our understanding of the war.
• Mary Chestnut kept a diary that remains one of the
finest primary sources from the home front.
• Photographer Matthew Brady gave us the most
memorable images of this terrible conflict.
War Divides A Nation
You can join
this cast by
choosing one
of the
characters to
portray.