| A | B |
| Colonel Robert Shaw | Union commander of one of the first all black regiments |
| Clara Barton | founded the American Red Cross |
| "Stonewall" Jackson | Confederate feneral who earned his nickname by standing firm at Bull Run |
| General Philip Sheridan | general who waged total war in the Shenandoah valley late in the war. |
| George McLellan | commander of Union armies after Bull Run |
| Robert E. Lee | brilliant commander of the Confederate forces |
| William T. Sherman | waged total war during his march to the sea. He burned Atlanta. |
| Ulysses S. Grant | was the commander of Union forces to whom Robert E. Lee surrendered |
| Edwin Stanton | secretary of war under Lincoln |
| Dorothea Dix | superintendent of army nurses in the North |