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Jefferson Davis
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He served two terms as senator from Mississippi and was secretary of war prior to his election as president of the Confederacy, a title he held until the end of the Civil War.
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John Crittenden
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As senator from Kentucky, in 1861 he proposed a compromise that would have extended the Missouri Compromise line
between free and slave west to the Pacific. It died amid opposition from newly elected President Lincoln |
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Robert E. Lee
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A highly respected career officer with the U.S. Army, he was offered command of the Union Army at the outbreak of the Civil War, but declined to go against his native Virginia. He then accepted a similar position with the Confederate Army. Author of a series of readers beginning in 1836 that modernized instruction while teaching the
Protestant ethic. |
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George McClellan
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He succeeded Winfield Scott as general-in-chief of the Union Army, but was removed in
1862 by President Lincoln, who became frustrated with his failure to take the offensive. He ran against Lincoln as a Democrat in 1864 on a platform of ending the war. |
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Ulysses S. Grant
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A failed businessman and borderline alcoholic, he became a Civil War hero and the 18th president. He led Union forces to success in the West, was promoted to general in chief in 1864 and forced Lee to sign surrender papers at Appomattox
Courthouse the following year. |
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Thomas J. “Stonewall” Jackson
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One of the Confederacy’s best commanders, he led his army to considerable success on the battlefield until he was fatally
wounded by friendly fire at Chancellorsville, Va., in 1863. |
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George Meade
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A Union general, his forces maintained the high ground against Confederate assaults at the decisive Battle of Gettysburg in July 1863.
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William T. Sherman
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Noted for his bold military strategy, this Union general led his troops on a “scorched earth” march from Atlanta to the sea in 1864 before heading north to more military victories in North Carolina.
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John Wilkes Booth
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A noted actor and Confederate supporter, he shot and killed President Lincoln at Ford’s Theater in Washington, D.C., on April 14, 1865, then was surrounded and killed at a
farm in northern Virginia 12 days later. |
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Abraham Lincoln’s election to the
presidency in November 1860 provoked seven Southern states to secede amid last-ditch efforts to reach a compromise and President Buchanan’s inaction while Lincoln waited to take office in March 1861. |
Lincoln’s attempts to reinforce
besieged Fort Sumter, S.C., led to the first shots of the Civil War and the subsequent secession of four more states. |
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The belief on both sides of the
conflict that the Civil War would be brief and relatively mild reflected an underestimation of the willingness of their opponents to fight for their cause. |
While the Union held a huge
advantage in industry and manpower, the Confederacy had significant advantages as well, including a goal – to be left alone – the was seemingly more attainable. |
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Militarily, the war was characterized
by Southern successes in the key battlegrounds of Virginia, but Union success elsewhere, leading to a gradual encircling of the South, with momentum-changing Northern victories at Gettysburg and Vicksburg in July 1863. |
Aside from the Revolution, the Civil
War is the most significant event in American history, resulting in the deaths of 600,000 soldiers, the emancipation of 4 million slaves, the decimation of an entire region and a thorough reworking of the way the economy and government operate |
