| A | B |
| Abraham Lincoln | President of the U.S. during the Civil War |
| Jefferson Davis | President of the Confederacy during the Civil War |
| Robert E. Lee | commander in chief of Confederate forces |
| Winfield Scott | helped Lincoln plan the Union's war strategy |
| Rose Greehow | confederate spy who helped the Confederates win at Bull Run |
| Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson | stood firm to help the rebels win at Bull Run |
| Dorothea Dix | director of the Union army's nursing service |
| Clara Barton | "angel of the battlefield" established the American Red Cross |
| Ulysses S. Grant | won Union victories at Vicksburg and in Kentucky and Tennessee before becoming commander of all Union forces |
| George C. Meade | defeated Lee at Gettysburg |
| Robert Gould Shaw | colonel of the 54th Massachusetts Infantry |
| Wilmer McClean | owner of the house in Appomattox Court House where Lee surrendered to Grant |