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Nat Turner | led a Virginia slave revolt in 1831 |
William Lloyd Garrison | Abolitionist who wrote the Liberator |
Frederick Douglass | Abolitionist speaker and writer:escaped from slavery |
Harriet Tubman | Abolitionist who helped on the Underground Railroad |
Sarah Grimke | Southerner who became an abolitionist speaker |
Lucretia Mott | Abolitionist and leader in the women's right movement |
Elizabeth Cady Stanton | Abolitionist and women's right leader |
Sojourner Truth | An escaped slave who spoke out for women's rights |
Harriet Beecher Stowe | Author of Uncle Tom's Cabin |
Abraham Lincoln | President of the United States |
John Brown | Abolitionist who led a revolt at Harpers Ferry, VA |
Jefferson Davis | President of the Confederacy |
Winfield Scott | Commander of the Union Army at the beginning of the war |
Robert E. Lee | Commander of the Confederate army |
Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson | Confederate general who defeated the Union army in the Battle of Bull Run |
George Pickett | Confederate general who led a charge during the Battle of Gettysburg |
George McClellan | Union commander who was a brilliant organizer of troops |
Clara Barton | Nurse who started the American Red Cross |
Ulysses S. Grant | Commander of the Union army who became president in 1868 |
Matthew Brady | A photographer during the Civil War |
William Tecumseh Sherman | Union general who destroyed much of Georgia |
Dorothea Dix | Superintendent for women nurses |
Johnny Reb | Name given to gray-uniformed Southern soldier |
Billy Yank | Name given to blue-uniformed soldier |
General Beauregard | Confederate general who successfully attacked Fort Sumter |