| A | B |
|---|
| Hiriam Rhodes Revels | First African American man elected to U.S. Congress |
| Abraham Lincoln | president during the Civil War; freed the slaves |
| Andrew Johnson | VP under Lincoln; became president under Reconstruction - was impeached |
| Ulysses S. Grant | became Commanding General of the Union army after Vicksburg |
| Jefferson Davis | first and only president of the Confederacy |
| Robert E. Lee | Commanding general of the Confederate army |
| "Stonewall" Jackson | Lee's most trusted Confederate general |
| William T. Sherman | Union general known for his "March on the Sea" from Atlanta to Richmond |
| Philip Bazaar | first Hispanic American Congressional medal of honor recipient |
| William Carney | first African American Congressional medal of honor recipient |
| John Wilkes Booth | Lincoln's assassinator |
| John C Calhoun | led South Carolina to "nullify" tariffs they felt were unfair |
| Henry Clay | The great compromiser |
| Dred Scott | slave who petitioned Supreme Court for freedom, but was denied - said slaves were property |
| Stephen Douglas | ran against Lincoln in Election of 1860 - Lincoln and this man had famous debates |
| Harriett Beecher Stowe | author of "Uncle Tom's Cabin" |
