Appomattox courthouse

confederate states

South Carolina, Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, and Georgia .

Robert E. lee

American soldier, he refused Lincoln's offer to head the Union army and agreed to lead Confederate forces. He successfully led several major battles until his defeat at Gettysburg, and he surrendered to the Union's commander General Grant at Appomattox Courthouse.

Appomattox courthouse

April 1865., the Virginia town where Robert E. Lee surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant in 1865, ending the Civil War

Ulysses S. Grant

..., an American general and the eighteenth President of the United States (1869-1877). He achieved international fame as the leading Union general in the American Civil War.

president Lincoln

16th President of the United States, saved the union during the war and emancipated the slaves; was assassinated by booth

union states

the northern us, Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Minnesota, Iowa, Wisconsin, California, Oregon, Kansas