Figures of the Civil War

President of the Confederate states of America

Well-known Confederate general who urged his men to stand strong and to "Yell like furies"

Early Union army leader in the civil war; careful organizer and planner who moved too slowly for Northern politicians

Commander of the Army of Northern Virginia; surrendered to the Union during the civil war in 1865

Commander- in- Chief of the Union army during the Civil War; later became a president of the United States of America

Union Colonel who led the 54th Massachusets

16th US president, leader of the Union during the Civil War, and signer of the Emancipation Proclimation

Civil War nurse who went out into the field to tend to the wounded; founder of the Red Cross

Superintendent of nurses in the Union army