By: Jake Ewing ETE 100 – 02 November 2, 2009

 16 th President of the United States.  President during the Civil War.  Freed the slaves.  President from March April  Was assassinated in 1865 by John Wilkes Booth. (Gardner, 1865)

 He was a career United States Army officer, an engineer, and among the most celebrated generals in American history.  He commanded the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia during the Civil War.  Lee supported President Andrew Johnson's program of Reconstruction.  He died October 12, 1870.

 He was general-in- chief of the Union Army from 1864 to  He then became the 18 th President of the U.S. from  Was the first president since Andrew Jackson to be re-elected.

 He was an American politician who served as President of the Confederate States of America for its entire history, 1861 to  He was the United States Secretary of War under Franklin Pierce.  He also served as a senator from Mississippi.  After Davis was captured May 10, 1865, he was charged with treason.  He died in 1856.

 He served as a General in the Union Army during the American Civil War.  He was described as the “first modern general”.  He led the campaigns that led to the fall of the Confederate stronghold of Vicksburg on the Mississippi River.  When Grant became president, Sherman succeeded him as Commanding General of the Army from

 Known as the site upon which the shots initiating the American Civil War were fired.  On April 12, 1861, at 4:30 a.m., Confederate batteries opened fire, firing for 34 straight hours, on the fort.  The Fort Sumter Flag became a popular patriotic symbol after Major Anderson returned North with it.

 It was fought near Manassas, Virginia on July 21,  It was the first major land battle of the American Civil War.  Battle that Jackson earned his nickname “stonewall”.  After this battle they realized that the war would potentially be much longer and bloodier than they had originally anticipated.

 This battle was fought around Fredericksburg, Virginia.  December 11 to December 15,  Remembered as one of the most one-sided battles of the American Civil War.  The Union Army suffered terrible casualties in futile frontal assaults on December 13.  Brought an early end to the Union’s plan of capturing Richmond.

 Took place in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.  It was the battle with the largest number of casualties in the American Civil War.  Usually described as the turning point of the war.  The union defeated the confederates and ended Lee’s invasion of the north.  Between 46,000 and 51,000 Americans were casualties in the three-day battle.

 Fought in Vicksburg, Mississippi.  It was the final major military action in the Vicksburg Campaign of the American Civil War.  When the Union Army took control of Vicksburg they also took control of the Mississippi River.  It also blocked communication between the Confederate states.

 Library of Congress Library of Congress  Gardner, A. (1865, February 05). Abraham lincoln : a resource guide. Retrieved from s/lincoln/bibliography.html s/lincoln/bibliography.html  (n.d.). Jump back in time. Retrieved from bin/jb_date.cgi?day=19&month=05