Significant People in the Civil War.

1. Significant People in the Civil War. Including: Jefferson Davis, Ulysses S. Grant, Robert E. Lee, Abraham Lincoln, William Carney, and Philip Bazaar. This PowerPoint was made by Bethany Dowd in Mrs. Johnson's fourth period class.

2. Jefferson Davis • Born in 1808 in Kentucky, even though he was raised in Mississippi, always seemed to play for the Southern side, which he did. • He, as a slaveholder himself, believed in the use of slaves. He knew that the South required them for their living. • When the Civil War came into place, he rose as the president of the Confederate States of America. Davis was popular with the South, that is until the South began to lose quite a few battles. Finally, he was captured in 1865 by the North • When he was let free, he wrote a two-volume novel entitled, “The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government.”

3. Ulysses S. Grant • Grant was born in Ohio in 1822, making him loyal to the North. • He was the commander chief in the Union army, leading the North to victory. He was believed to be the only general tough enough to go up against Robert E. Lee, the head of the Southerners army. • He was also the 15th president of the United States.

4. Robert E. Lee • Born in Virginia in 1807, he was loyal to them and refused to turn sword on his home state, even though he didn’t believe in slavery. • He was a Confederate General, known for his brutality and strength. His only stated match was Ulysses S. Grant, a Union commander.

5. Abraham Lincoln • Lincoln was born in Kentucky on 1809,a strict Northerner. When he was elected as the sixteenth president, he took steps to abolish slavery. • He didn’t believe he could really get rid of it, but he knew he could prevent the epidemic of it. • Well everything Lincoln was doing made the South feel like they were being bossed around, causing the Civil War. He handled the Civil War best he could, asking Lee to be his General, but he seceded with Virginia. Therefore, he used Grant and won the war they had been bandaging for so long, leading into Re-Construction. • Died in 1865, assassinated.

6. William Carney • Carney was born in 1840 and died in 1908. Being a African American, he was a Unionist. A former slave named ‘William’ in Mississippi, he escaped through the Underground Railroad to the North. • He joined the Massachusetts Regiment where he met the white William Carney. They became friends. The white Willaim gave the black one his last name so Carney could fight in the 54th Massachusetts Infantry. • He received an award for planting a

7. Philip Bazaar