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People of the Civil War Pollnow US History Union Military Leaders President Abraham Lincoln • Um, yeah • President of Union • 16th President General Ulysses S. Grant • Eventual Commander of the Union Army • Future (18th) President • Battle of Vicksburg • Accepts surrender of Confederates General George McClellan • 1st Commander of the Union Army • Not great commander, removed by Lincoln • Army of the Potomac • Battle of Antietam Admiral David G. Farragut • Leader of US Navy in Civil War • “Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead!” General William Tecumseh Sherman • Union General • “Total War” • “Scorched-earth policy” • “Sherman’s March” • Take Atlanta, march to the sea General George Mead • Union General • General in command at Battle of Gettysburg • Grant called Mead his best general Confederate Military Leaders President Jefferson Davis • President of Confederate States of America General Robert E. Lee • Commander of the Confederate Army • Winner at battles of Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, among others • Would issue Confederate surrender General Stonewall Jackson • Confederate General • Called “Stonewall” because his army was impossible to move • Battle of Bull Run Others… • Harriet Tubman – Underground Railroad • Frederick Douglass – Runaway Slave, most famous African-American freed man, abolitionist advocate • John Brown – leader of abolitionist movement, martyr • Harriet Beecher Stowe – writer of Uncle Tom’s Cabin • Dred Scott – runaway slave that claims freedom, cannot sue as ruled by Supreme Court • Stephen Douglas – Northern Democrat in election of 1860 • John Bell – Constitutional Union in election of 1860