| A | B |
| Abraham Lincoln | 16th President of the United States. Served during the Civil War. |
| Hannibal Hamlin | Reublican Vice President during lincoln's first term |
| Jefferson Davis | President of the Confederate States of America |
| Alexander Stephens | Vice President of the Confederacy. He said slavery is the cornerstone of the CSA. |
| Robert E. Lee | Brilliant Commanding General of the Army of Northern Virginia (CSA). |
| Ulysses S. Grant | Victorious Commander of the Army of the Potomac |
| James Longstreet, P.G.T. Beauregard, Jubal Early, J.E.B. Stuart | CSA generals |
| Irwin McDowell, Phil Sheridan, Winfield Scott Hancock | Union generals |
| Ge. George pickett | CSA general led the last infantry charge in North America at Gettysburg |
| Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman | Determined to make the South "howl," he led his bummers on a march of destruction from Atlanta to the sea in 1864 |
| Walt Whitman | American poet who captured the feeling of the war in "Beat,Beat Drums" |
| Herman Melville | Poet who called John Brown the "meteor of the war" |
| Clara Barton | "The Angel of the Battlefield", founder of the American Red Cross |
| Gen. George McClellan | Union general loved by his troops, 3 times led the Army of the Potomac, but couldn't "close" in battle for a victory |
| Gen. Ambrose Burnside | His poor leadership resulted in high casualities at Antietam at the bridge and at Marye's heights in Fredericksburg |
| Eli Whitney | American inventor of both the cotton gin and the rifle with interchangeable parts |
| Robert Gould Shaw | Bostonian colonel of the Massachusetts 54th Infantry Regiment |