Download Faces of the Civil War

The Faces of the Civil War
By: Olivia Popejoy
Abraham Lincoln
1809-1865
Lincoln began his political
career as a member of the
Whigs. He served four terms
in the Illinois legislature
beginning in 1834 and was
elected to Congress in 1847.
In 1856 Lincoln left the Whigs
for the Republicans.
Lincoln was against
slavery in the territories,
but he was not opposed to
it in the states where it
already existed.
In 1863 Lincoln issued the
Emancipation Proclamation
stating that all slaves in the
states rebelling against the
US government should be
freed.
On April 14, 1865,
Lincoln was
assassinated by John
Wilkes Booth, a
sympathizer of the
South.
Jefferson Davis
1808-1889
Davis was a member of the
Mississippi Senate but
resigned when Mississippi
seceded form the Union.
Davis was elected as the
provisional president for the
Confederate States of America
in February of 1861 and was
elected to a full term in
November of 1861.
Davis was arrested and put in
prison for the assassination
of President Abraham
Lincoln. He was later let out
due to the fact that he was
innocent.
He lived out his life rather
quietly and died never
becoming a US citizen
again.
Robert E. Lee
1807-1870
Lee was against slavery
and was opposed to the
secession of Virginia from
the Union. He was also
fond of both the army and
the Union. Because he was
unwilling to invade the
seceding states he
declined a position offered
to him by President
Lincoln.
In 1862 Lee became the
head of the Army of
Northern Virginia, a
position he held for the
next three years.
Lee had great battle
victories at both the First
and Second Bull Run
battles, Fredericksburg,
and Chancellorsville. He
met defeat at Antietam and
Gettysburg.
Lee lived out his life as
an educator at the
Washington College in
Virginia. He also died
never regaining
citizenship to the
United States.
Ulysses S. Grant
1822-1885
1861, Grant was appointed to
the Illinois Volunteers as a
Colonel. 1862, Grant was key in
the victory at Fort Donelson.
This capture was one of the
most important victories for the
Union.
Because of his successes
President Lincoln promoted
Grant to the position of
Major-General of the
Illinois Volunters.
Grant was able to take the
advantages held by the
Union Army, which included a
superior amount of soldiers
and guns, to create victories.
Grant served two terms as
President of the United
States, in 1868 and 1872.
He lived out his life in New
York with his wife and died
of throat cancer.
Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson
1824-1863
At the onset of the Civil War
Jackson immediately sided with
the Confederate Army and was
praised for doing an outstanding
job gathering and training the
Virginia Volunteers.
In 1862, Jackson’s tactics kept
the Union Army from
contributing to the Peninsular
Campaign. Jackson and Lee
also joined forces in 1863 at the
Seven Day’s Battle for a victory.
In 1863, Jackson was
returning to his campsite
after dark and was
mistakenly shot by one of
his fellow soldiers. His arm
was amputated and
recovery was in sight for
Jackson when he caught
pneumonia and died on
May 10, 1863.
Harriet Tubman
1820-1913
Tubman was a runaway slave
from Maryland. She aided in
the freedom of hundreds of
fellow slaves by running the
Underground Railroad.
Working as a nurse,
Tubman used folk
remedies she picked up in
Maryland. She brewed
roots and herbs to create
treatments for the dying
soldiers.
During the Civil war Tubman
was a spy, a nurse, and a cook
for the Union Army. She gained
knowledge of the land from
running the Underground
Railroad which she used to spy
on the Cofederate troops. She
grouped together many former
slaves who helped her hunt for
rebel camps and observe
confederate troop movement.
Clara Barton
1821-1912
Barton’s Civil War
experience began in 1861 in
April. Barton established a
company that would obtain
and distribute supplies to the
soldiers that had been
wounded.
In 1862, she received
special permission to travel
behind the lines at some of
the most gruesome
battlefields of the war. At
these battles she aided
both the Union and
Confederate soldiers.
In 1881 at the age of 60,
Barton was able to convince
the United States government
that the American Red Cross
was a necessity in the event
that another war broke out or
a natural disaster occurred.
Fredrick Douglass
1818-1895
Douglass works closely with the
efforts of the Underground
Railroad by sheltering escaping
slaves in his home.
In 1863 Douglass becomes the
recruiter for the 54th
Massachusetts Infantry. It was
the first regiment of AfricanAmerican soldiers. Two of his
sons join the regiment and his
son Fredrick Jr. eventually
becomes recruiter as well.
In August of 1863, Douglass
holds a meeting with the
president of the United States,
Abraham Lincoln, to discuss the
unequal pay and the poor
treatment of black soldiers.
In 1895 Douglass dies of a heart
attack while talking to his wife
about a talk he had given that day.
Rutherford B. Hayes
1822-1893
Hayes began the Civil War as a
Major General of the 23rd Ohio
Infantry. During the span of the
war he was wounded four times
and once quite seriously.
Hayes was promoted to
Colonel in 1862 and in 1864
he was again promoted to
Brevet Brigadier General
due to his successes on the
battlefield.
.
In 1865, Hayes was elected to
the House of Representatives
while he was still on the
battlefield. In 1877 Hayes was
elected as the 19th president
of the United States.
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•"Fredick Douglass." AmericanCivilWar.com. 1997. 27 Mar. 2005
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