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Key Figures of the Civil War Jefferson Davis Robert E. Lee Ulysses S. Grant Abraham Lincoln Jefferson Davis President of the Confederate States of America Jefferson Davis • President of the Confederate States of America • Commander-in-chief of the Confederate Army • Had little power because the Confederate States believed in states’ rights Robert E. Lee Leader of the Confederate Army Robert E. Lee • Leader of the Army of Northern Virginia in the Confederate Army • Used tried and true strategies • Lost many soldiers at Gettysburg when he ordered a frontal assault • His army was almost destroyed • Surrendered to General Grant at Appomattox Courthouse Ulysses S. Grant Leader of the Union Army Ulysses S. Grant • General in the Union Army • Won the battle of Vicksburg (splitting the Confederacy in two at the Mississippi River) • Named as the commander of the Army of the Potomac • Strategy was total war • Changed the Union Army from a weak one into a strong one • Accepted the surrender of Confederate troops under Robert E. Lee at Appomattox Courthouse Abraham Lincoln President of the Union during the Civil War Abraham Lincoln • 16th President of the U.S. • not an abolitionist, but did not want slavery to expand • the South seceded from the Union when he was elected • was determined to save the Union • 1863- issued the Emancipation Proclamation • Honored soldiers in the Gettysburg Address • Assassinated after the surrender at Appomattox Courthouse
