unit 8 HISTORY important people

Abraham Lincon

16th president supported the emmancipation proclamation assasinated after the war

Ulysses S. Grant

CW general, battle of victories led to Lincoln making him general of the entire union army became 18th president

Belle Boyd

Confederate spy at age 17, she would sew messages into a rubber ball and throw it out of her jail cell window

Thomas Stonewall Jackson

Famous confedeate general, got nicknamed at battle of bull run, shot by a friendly fire at Chancellorsville, died from wound

Jefferson Davis

Mexican war SOLDIER, before CW was a US senator from Mississippi, president of the CSA

Robert E Lee

Mexican war VETERAN, confederate commander of all southern troops, Lincoln asked him to command union army but he declined

Clara Barton

angel of the battlefield, CW nurse, cared for soldiers no matter who they were, founded the american red cross

John Wilkes Booth

assassinated Abe Lincoln, was an actor, hunted and killed a few days later

Fredrick Douglass

escaped slavery great public speaker leader of the abolishonist movement

Harriet Tubman

leader of the underground railroad led escaped slaves to freedom