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Abraham Lincoln | self-educated Kentucky lawyer; 16th US President during Civil War |
Jefferson Davis | slave owner and military officer from Kentucky; President of the Confederacy |
Robert E. Lee | respected military officer and Virginian; commanding general of Confederacy |
Ulysses S. Grant | final Union General, nicknamed "Unconditional Surrender"; 18th US President |
Clara Barton | nursed battlefied wounded and dying; later organized American Red Cross |
Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson | determined Confederate general and Lee's closest; accidentally killed by own men |
William Tecumseh Sherman | Union general famous for "March to Sea" - Total War |
John Wilkes Booth | actor and Confederate who assasinated Pres. Lincoln |