| A | B |
| Ulysses S Grant | hero at Vicksburg who became commander of all Union armies in 1864 |
| William Tecumseh Sherman | Union commander who burned a path of destruction through Georgia |
| Abraham Lincoln | Republican who won the presidency in 1860 |
| Robert E Lee | Confederate commander who opposed secession but sided with his beloved state of Virginia |
| Stonewall Jackson | general responsible for the Confederate victory at the First Battle of Bull Run |
| George McClellan | Union general who was eventually fired by Lincoln for having the "slows" |
| David Farragut | Union commander who seized New Orleans, Baton Rouge, and Natchez |
| Jefferson Davis | president of the Confederacy |
| Clara Barton | Union nurse who cared for the sick and wounded on the front lines |
| John Wilkes Booth | Southern sympathizer and actor who assassinated President Lincoln |