| A | B |
| 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 |