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| Andrew Johnson | the 17th U.S. president, assumed office after the assassination of Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865). He served from 1865 to 1869, was the first American president to be impeached. |
| William Sherman | He led some 60,000 soldiers on a 285-mile march from Atlanta to Savannah, Georgia. |
| Alexander Stephens | Most famous for serving as the vice president of the Confederacy during the Civil War...he was a former unionist |
| Henry McNeal Turner | Turner was also an active politician and Reconstruction-era state legislator from Macon...One of the most influential African American leaders in late-nineteenth-century Georgia |
| Dred Scott | first went to trial to sue for his freedom in 1847 |
| abolitionist | Their goal was to immediately emancipate all slaves and the end racial discrimination and segregation. |
| Abraham Lincoln | Abraham Lincoln was the 16th President of the United States, serving from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865. |
| Emancipation Proclamation | It declared "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states "are, and henceforward shall be free." |
| Antietam | The bloodiest single day in American history ends in a Union victory that bolsters President Lincoln's ability to issue the Emancipation Proclamation. |
| chickamauga | The Battle of Chickamauga in North Georgia not far from Chattanooga, Tennessee, It was the largest battle fought in the Western Theater of the American Civil War. It is second only to the Battle of Gettysburg in the number of casualties. |
