Important People In The Civil War

1. Important People In The Civil War By Ashanti Henderson

2. Jefferson Davis Born: June 3, 1808 Died:December 6, 1889 (age 81) He Was An American statesman and leader of the Confederacy during the American Civil War, serving as President for its entire history.

3. Ulysses S. Grant Born :April 27, 1822 Died :July 23, 1885(aged 63)18th President of the United States (1869–1877) following his dominant role in the second half of the Civil War. Under Grant, the Union Army defeated the Confederate military and effectively ended the war with the surrender of Robert E. Lee's army at Appomattox. As President he led the Radical Republicans in their effort to eliminate all vestiges of Confederate nationalism and slavery; he effectively destroyed the Ku Klux Klan in 1871. His reputation was marred by his repeated defense of corrupt appointees, and by the deep economic depression (called the "Panic of 1873") that dominated his second term. Although his Republican Party split in 1872 with reformers denouncing him, Grant was easily reelected.

4. Robert E. Lee Aka "Marble Man“ Born :January 19, 1807 Died :October 12, 1870 (aged 63) was a career military officer who is best known for having commanded the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia in the American Civil War.

5. Abraham Lincoln Born:February 12, 1809 Died :April 15, 1865 (aged 56) was the 16th President of the United States, serving from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865. He successfully led his country through a great constitutional, military and moral crisis – the American Civil War – preserving the Union, while ending slavery, and promoting economic and financial modernization. Reared in a poor family on the western frontier, Lincoln was mostly self-educated. He became a country lawyer, an Illinois state legislator, and a one-term member of the United States House of Representatives, but failed in two attempts to be elected to the United States Senate.

6. William Carney Born : February 29, 1840 Died :December 8, 1908 (aged 68) Carney was born simply as "William," as a slave in Norfolk,Virginia February 29, 1840, but escaped to Massachusetts like his father through the Underground Railroad. They later bought the rest of the family out of slavery. Once William escaped from slavery and joined the Massachusetts Regiment, he met a white man named William Carney. The white William Carney was from New Jersey and served for the Cumberland Greys in the Civil War. Both the white and black Williams met, and the white William gave the black William his last name so he could serve in the 54th.

7. Phillip Bazaar • Bazaar, a resident of Massachusetts, was a Chilean immigrant who joined the Union Navy at New Bedford, Massachusetts. Bazaar was assigned to the USS Santiago de Cuba during the American Civil War. Santiago de Cuba was a wooden, brigantine-rigged, side-wheel steamship under the command of Rear Admiral David D. Porter.