People of the Union
Abraham(Left) Ulysses(Right)
General Ulysses S. Grant- General Grant, one of the greatest generals of the Union side. He won very important battles for the Union and against the Confederacy. One battle was the battle of Richmond, where he and his army had defeated General Robert E. Lee at Appomattox Court House on April, 9th 1865. Though he defeated Robert E. Lee in Richmond, he didn't want him being tried for treason. He made sure he wasn't tried for treason.
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"In Every battler there comes a time when both side consider themselves beaten, then he who continues the attack wins."- Ulysses S. Grant
Abraham Lincoln- President Abraham Lincoln. The President during the Civil War. He would ride out onto the Union Side of battle(not the Frontlines) and talk with the Generals and give speeches. One speech, at the Battle of Gettysburg, was the Gettysburg Address. It was about fighting for Freedom and Democracy. Before he was President, he participated in the "Douglas-Lincoln Debates" (Hence the name). In these series of debates, he talked about the wrongness of slavery, and why it should be abolished. His thoughts of Slavery came from when he visited Missouri. He'd see the slaves working in terrible conditions and were being whipped. After being reelected, he was assassinated in Ford's Theater; but died in a boarding house close by.
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" Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate—we can not consecrate—we can not hallow—this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us—that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion—that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain—that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth. "-The Gettysburg Address; Abraham Lincoln
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"In Every battler there comes a time when both side consider themselves beaten, then he who continues the attack wins."- Ulysses S. Grant
Abraham Lincoln- President Abraham Lincoln. The President during the Civil War. He would ride out onto the Union Side of battle(not the Frontlines) and talk with the Generals and give speeches. One speech, at the Battle of Gettysburg, was the Gettysburg Address. It was about fighting for Freedom and Democracy. Before he was President, he participated in the "Douglas-Lincoln Debates" (Hence the name). In these series of debates, he talked about the wrongness of slavery, and why it should be abolished. His thoughts of Slavery came from when he visited Missouri. He'd see the slaves working in terrible conditions and were being whipped. After being reelected, he was assassinated in Ford's Theater; but died in a boarding house close by.
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-Emancipation Proclamation: [Click]
" Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate—we can not consecrate—we can not hallow—this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us—that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion—that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain—that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth. "-The Gettysburg Address; Abraham Lincoln
People of the Confederacy
Jefferson(Left) Robert(Right)
Robert E. Lee- General Robert E. Lee of the Confederate Army. He was the most important generals in the south, and one of the most important generals in the whole Civil War. He was offered to become Union General, but he stayed loyal to his state of Virginia and became the the Confederate General; even though he opposed the secession. He had won many battles for the South. He was well respected and admired by his men, even by Union General Ulysses S. Grant. During the battle of Gettysburg, the last major battle of the Civil War, he made the fatal decision of sending the majority of his men through an open field, and over a road which was bordered by two fences on each side, to the Union Side of the Field. There, Union artillery fired upon the crossing soldiers and only a few actually went towards the Union Side. His last battle, the Battle of Richmond. He was under siege by Ulysses S. Grant. Lee surrendered at Appomattox Court House.
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"It is well that war is so terrible. We should grow too fond of it."-Robert E. Lee
Jefferson Davis- Jefferson Davis, the President of the Confederate States of America. At first, he didn't want to become the president of the CSA, but he was easily influence into becoming the CSA President. He was chosen for his past, he was a Western War Hero during the American-Mexican War. His way with communicating with the Army was just a 'strand of string' sort of speak. He'd argue with his generals a lot. After Richmond was captured, he started to run. Which admitted the end of the Civil War and the Confederate States of America, and slavery with it.
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"If the Confederacy fails, there should be written: Died of a Theory."-Jefferson Davis
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"It is well that war is so terrible. We should grow too fond of it."-Robert E. Lee
Jefferson Davis- Jefferson Davis, the President of the Confederate States of America. At first, he didn't want to become the president of the CSA, but he was easily influence into becoming the CSA President. He was chosen for his past, he was a Western War Hero during the American-Mexican War. His way with communicating with the Army was just a 'strand of string' sort of speak. He'd argue with his generals a lot. After Richmond was captured, he started to run. Which admitted the end of the Civil War and the Confederate States of America, and slavery with it.
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-Jefferson's Life during Civil War: [Click]
"If the Confederacy fails, there should be written: Died of a Theory."-Jefferson Davis