1. The Characters of the Civil War

2. Your Task Who was this person? (Give some background behind them)
What did they do? (Did they have a specific role did they help with anything)
Why does it matter? (Think battles/influence)
If you get stuck think about the 5 W’s; who, what, when, where, why, and sometimes how.
You need also one interesting fact you did not know about that person to share with the class.

3. Abraham Lincoln- President of the United States

4. Abraham Lincoln
Who: He was the 16th President of the United States from Was born in Kentucky moved to Illinois
What: He helped to guide the United States through a difficult time of the Civil War. Was going to bring the nation back together.
Why: He issued the Emancipation Proclamation that declared slaves free within the South in 1863, which was a turning point for the Civil War.
Fact: In 1830 at 21 years of age, Lincoln got a job hauling freight down the Mississippi River to New Orleans on a flatboat.

5. Your Task Who was this person? (Give some background behind them)
What did they do? (Did they have a specific role did they help with anything)
Why does it matter? (Think battles/influence)
If you get stuck think about the 5 W’s; who, what, when, where, why, and sometimes how.
You need also one interesting fact you did not know about that person to share with the class.

6. George B. McClellan- General of the Union Army
Links:
ographies/george-mcclellan.htm
e/gbmcclellan.htm

7. Jefferson Davis- President of the Confederacy
Links:
tory/biographies/jefferson-davis.html
y/Jefferson-Davis

8. Robert E. Lee- Confederate General
ory/biographies/robert-e-lee.html
lee

9. Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson- Confederate General
Links:
on/history/biographies/thomas- jackson.html
newall-jackson

10. Ulysses S. Grant- General of the Union Army
Links:
dents/ulyssessgrant
ory/biographies/ulysses-s-grant.html

11. William T. Sherman- Union General, “Father of Modern Warfare”
Links:
war.org/educatio n/history/biogra phies/william-t- sherman.html
ome.com/sherbi o.htm
orynet.com/gene ral-william- tecumseh- sherman