Important Leaders of the Civil War

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Important Leaders of the Civil War
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Abe Lincoln

• President
• Opposed the spread of slavery
• Issued the Emancipation Proclamation

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Lincoln

• Wrote the Gettysburg Address
• Wanted to preserve the Union at all costs

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Jefferson Davis

• President of the Confederate States of America

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Ulysses S. Grant

• General of the Union army
• Defeated Lee

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Robert E. Lee

• Leader of the Army of Northern Virginia
• Offered command of the Union forces
• Opposed secession
• Urged others to accept defeat at the end of the
  war

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Thomas Stonewall Jackson

• Confederate general
• From Virginia

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Frederick Douglass

• Former slave
• Escaped to the North
• Became an abolitionist