Civil War People Flashcards
Clara Barton
Formed Red Cross, performed surgeries on the battle field.
John Wilkes Booth
Abe Lincolnshire killer. Made big plan to take over government. While Booth was killing Lincoln, his friend went into the secretary of states house and stabbed him in the neck and face multiple times, but he recovered. A third member was suppose to kill the Vice President, but chickened out and got drunk instead. Booty escaped and Union soldiers chased him into Maryland and Virginia and finally caught him.
Jefferson Davis
President of Confederacy and did not like that he was chosen to be president. He really wanted southern independence, but never got it. He was released and dies in 1889
Fredrick Douglass
Born a slave, he escaped with his friends free man papers. He became a abolitionist known around the world
Dred Scott
He lived in Illinois and Wisconsin with his owner for many years. She he went back to the south, he owner died and he decided he should sue his owners wife because he thinks he should be a free man. He tried to sue them but the judge said he could never sue because he was not a United States citizen and that no black people could ever become a citizen.
Stephan “the little Giant” Douglas
He ran against Abe Lincoln but lost since there was 2 other people on his side.
Ulysses S. Grant
Grant graduated from West Point and fought in the Mexican-American War (1846-1848). During the Civil War, Grant, an aggressive and determined leader, was given command of all the U.S. armies. He was called Unconditional Surrender Grant after a confederate general came to him and asked what the terms of surrender where and he replied saying with “nothing but unconditional and immediate surrender can be accepted,” After the war he became a national hero, and the Republicans nominated him for president in 1868.
Robert E. Lee
Robert E. Lee (1807-70) served as a military officer in the U.S. Army, a West Point commandant and the legendary general of the Confederate Army during the American Civil War (1861-65). In June 1861, Lee assumed command of the Army of Northern Virginia, which he would lead for the rest of the war. Lee was totally against slavery but did not want to fight against his state and his family. Lee got defeated by The Union at the Battle of Gettysburg, but still kept fighting hard. Lee finally surrendered when they did not have enough men, food, clothing and other necessities.
Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln, a self-taught Illinois lawyer and legislator with a reputation as an eloquent opponent of slavery, shocked many when he overcame several more prominent contenders to win the Republican Party’s nomination for president in 1860. His election that November pushed several Southern states to secede by the time of his inauguration in March 1861, and the Civil War began barely a month later. Contrary to expectations, Lincoln proved to be a shrewd military strategist and a savvy leader during what became the costliest conflict ever fought on American soil. His Emancipation Proclamation, issued in 1863, freed all slaves in the rebellious states and paved the way for slavery’s eventual abolition, while his Gettysburg Address later that year stands as one of the most famous and influential pieces of oratory in American history.
Death of Abraham Lincoln
In April 1865, with the Union on the brink of victory, Abraham Lincoln was shot and killed by the Confederate sympathizer John Wilkes Booth; his untimely death made him a martyr to the cause of liberty and Union. Over the years Lincoln’s mythic stature has only grown, and he is widely regarded as one of the greatest presidents in the nation’s history.
George McClellan
McClellan was a union general, but was very slow. It took him about 6 months to get his army ready, when it was probably ready in the gecko. He was eventually fired when he missed so many chances to attack the confederates, Lincoln just got so annoyed with him.
William Sherman
William Tecumseh Sherman in 1864 commanded the Union armies of the West in the decisive drive from Chattanooga to Atlanta and the famous “march to the sea” across Georgia. In these campaigns and his later push northward from Savannah through the Carolinas, Sherman’s troops carried the war to the Southern home front and blazed a wide path of destruction that delivered the death blow to the Confederacy’s will and ability to fight. For the accompanying destruction, his name is still cursed in some parts of the South; but he is also recognized as a great strategist, a forceful leader, and–together with Ulysses Grant –the ablest Union general of the war.
Robert Smalls
He was a slave until About 3:00 a.m. the following morning, Smalls and seven of the eight enslaved crewmen decided to make a run for the Union blockading ships, as they had previously planned. Smalls dressed in the captain’s uniform and had a straw hat similar to that worn by the captain. He sailed the Planter out of what was then known as Southern Wharf, then stopped at a nearby wharf to pick up his own family and the families of other crewmen, who were hiding there. Smalls’s daring escape succeeded. Even more valuable, however, were the code book containing the Confederate’s secret signals, and a map of the mines and torpedoes laid around Charleston harbor. They suspected nothing, since he had given the correct Confederate signals. The Planter passed Fort Sumter approximately 4:30am,
Harriet Tubman
She escaped from being a slave and helped other on the underground rail road. During the Civil War, Tubman worked for the Union army as a nurse, a cook, and a spy. Her experience leading slaves along the Underground Railroad was especially helpful because she knew the land well. She recruited a group of former slaves to hunt for rebel camps and report on the movement of the Confederate troops. In 1863, she went with Colonel James Montgomery and about 150 black soldiers on a gunboat raid in South Carolina. Because she had inside information from her scouts, the Union gunboats were able to surprise the Confederate rebels.
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Fire eaters
were a group of extremist pro-slavery Southern politicians who urged the separation of southern states into a new nation, which became known as the Confederate States of America.
