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Important Civil War Leaders

Important Civil War Leaders. Abraham Lincoln. President of the United States Opposed the spread of slavery Issued the Emancipation Proclamation Wanted to preserve the Union by force if necessary. Abraham Lincoln.

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Important Civil War Leaders

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  1. ImportantCivil War Leaders

  2. Abraham Lincoln • President of the United States • Opposed the spread of slavery • Issued the Emancipation Proclamation • Wanted to preserve the Union by force if necessary

  3. Abraham Lincoln • Believed the United States was one nation and not a collection of independent states • Wrote Gettysburg Address that said the Civil War was to preserve a government “of the people, by the people, and for the people”

  4. Jefferson Davis • President of the Confederate States of America (Southern states)

  5. Ulysses S. Grant • General of the Union army that defeated Lee

  6. Robert E. Lee • Leader of the Army of Northern Virginia • Offered command of the Union forces at beginning of war but chose not to fight against Virginia

  7. Robert E. Lee • Opposed secession but did not believe the Union should be held together by force • Urged Southerners to accept defeat at the end of war and reunite as Americans when some wanted to fight on

  8. Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson • Was a skilled Confederate general from Virginia

  9. Frederick Douglass • Enslaved African American who escaped to the North and became an abolitionist

  10. Clara Barton • Civil War nurse who created the American Red Cross

  11. Robert Smalls • African American sailor and Union naval captain • Honored for his feats of bravery and heroism • Became Congressman after the war

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