Civil War People part I

For the North…

Abraham Lincoln

• 16th President• Author of the

Emancipation Proclamation and Gettysburg Address

• First President to be assassinated

George B McClellan

• Commander of the Army of the Potomac

• Fails four times, and fired twice

Clara Barton

• Volunteered as a nurse• Founder of the

American Red Cross

William Carney

• First African American to win the Medal of Honor

Philip Bazaar

• First Hispanic to win the Medal of Honor

Julia Ward Howe

• Wrote “Battle Hymn of the Republic”

For the South…

Jefferson Davis

• President of the Confederate States of America

Robert E Lee

• Military genius• Confederate general

“Stonewall” Jackson

• Another military genius• Accidentally killed by his

own men at the Battle of Chancellorsville

John Wilkes Booth

• Assassinates President Lincoln on April 14, 1865