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Abraham Lincoln
1.Had 2 nicknames:Honest Abe and The Great Emancipator
2.Born in a log cabin in Kentucky
3.Served one term in the House of Representatives before his presidency.
4.Lincoln was a licensed bartender.
5.First major leader in the U.S. to believe women have the right to vote. |
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Robert E. Lee
1.Fought in the Mexican American war.
2.Jokingly referred to as "Granny Lee" for his timid command style.
3.Lee's father, Henry Lee, was a revolutionary war hero.
4. Lee's house still stands in the middle of Arlington National Cemetery.
5.After his loss at the Battle of Gettysburg, Lee sent Jefferson Davis a letter of resignation which he refused |
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General McClellan
1.Historians agree that McClellan was a failure as a battlefield commander.
2.Ran for president against Abraham Lincoln in 1864
3.Designed a horse saddle that was used in the Cavalry until WWII when the Cavalry was disbanded.
4.Organized the Army of the Potomac in 1861.
5.Served as governor of New Jersey from 1878 to 1881 |
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Stonewall Jackson
1,Leading Confederate General
2.Died by being accidental shot by Confederate troops
3.At the Virginia Military Institute in Lexington, Jackson served as professor of natural and experimental philosophy as well as of artillery tactics.
4.Received the nickname "Stonewall" after General Bree exclaimed "There is Jackson standing like a stone wall." at the battle of bull run
5.Last words: "Let us cross over the river and rest under the shade of trees." |
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Stonewall Jackson
1,Leading Confederate General
2.Died by being accidental shot by Confederate troops
3.At the Virginia Military Institute in Lexington, Jackson served as professor of natural and experimental philosophy as well as of artillery tactics.
4.Received the nickname "Stonewall" after General Bree exclaimed "There is Jackson standing like a stone wall." at the battle of bull run
5.Last words: "Let us cross over the river and rest under the shade of trees." |
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Jefferson Davis
1.One of ten children born into a military family.
2.His birth took place just 100 miles and eight months earlier from Abraham Lincoln's.
3.Was elected the president of the Confederacy during the Civil War.
4.Was a symbol of Southern pride
5.When imprisoned for treason he was released on bail by abolitionist Horace Greeley |
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Ulysses S. Grant
1.Both a president of the United States and commander of the Union armies.
2.At age 46 Grant became the youngest president theretofore.
3.The S in Grant's name was an error from when Ohio Congressman Thomas Hamer wrote his name with a S initial when nominating him for West Point.
4.Disliked West Point and planned to resign after his mandatory 4 years
5.Grant struggled with alcohol his whole life, rumored to be drunk during Civil War battles, even falling off a wagon once. |
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Ulysses S. Grant
1.Both a president of the United States and commander of the Union armies.
2.At age 46 Grant became the youngest president theretofore.
3.The S in Grant's name was an error from when Ohio Congressman Thomas Hamer wrote his name with a S initial when nominating him for West Point.
4.Disliked West Point and planned to resign after his mandatory 4 years
5.Grant struggled with alcohol his whole life, rumored to be drunk during Civil War battles, even falling off a wagon once. |
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Belle Boyd
1.Volunteered to spy on the Union during the Civil War.
2.Worked as a nurse before the Civil War
3.When a Union soldier cursed at her mother, she pulled out a pistol and killed the soldier
4.On her way to deliver Confederate papers to England, she was stopped by a Union naval vessel, she fell in love with her captor, Captain Samuel Hardinge
5.Moved to England with her husband, stayed there after he was arrested in the U.S. and lived out the rest of her life as a stage actress |
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Mary Walker
1.Only woman to receive Medal of Honor ever
2.She attempted to set up a practice after graduating medical school but it failed because the public would not accept a female doctor.
3.Traveled to Washington to join the Union army but was denied a commission as a medical officer, despite this she served as an unpaid surgeon in the war
4. Walker became the first female U.S. Army surgeon following her commission as a "Contract Acting Assistant Surgeon (civilian)" by the Army of the Cumberland
5.Arrested by the Confederacy for spying, after her release she served at the Louisville Women's Prison Hospital and an orphan asylum in Tennessee. |
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