Civil War: Significant People

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  1. 6. served as a Superintendent of Army Nurses; created the first generation of American mental asylums
  2. 8. U.S. commanding officer of the Confederate Army of Tennessee at the Battle of Chickamauga and Chattanooga
  3. 10. 18th U.S. President; lead the Union Army during the American Civil War
  4. 13. Stage actor; assassinator of Abraham Lincoln
  5. 14. U.S. Army officer; helped lead during Mexican-American War and Civil War
  6. 16. Union army officer who was in command of a regiment of African American troops
  7. 17. Nurse who becomes one of the most honored women in American History
  8. 19. started a rebellion known as the Southampton Insurrection
  9. 21. General of the Confederate States
  10. 23. former U.S. Secretary of State during John Quincy Adam's Presidency
  11. 24. slave who sued over being denied freedom
  12. 25. President of the Confederate States from 1861 to 1865
  13. 26. american journalist who helped organize both the New England and American Anti-Slavery Society
  14. 27. U.S. Army officer who became a major general for the Confederate States Army
  15. 28. American commander of the U.S. Army garrison of Fort Sumter
  16. 29. 16th president of the United States
  17. 30. 6th President of the United States
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  1. 1. An architect of the American abolitionist movement; lectured for the American Anti-Slavery Society
  2. 2. American abolitionist; rose to fame after publishing The Narrative of the Life of (himself)
  3. 3. Served as an engineer during Mexican-American War and was transferred east by President Lincoln as a Union general
  4. 4. strong hate for slavery; started
  5. 5. helped many slaves escape to the North via the Underground Railroad
  6. 7. an American abolisionist of New York Dutch heritage and a women's rights activist
  7. 9. former U.S. Senator for the Democratic party; one who promoted the Kansas-Nebraska Act
  8. 11. former U.S. Secretary of State during Millard Fillmore's Presidency
  9. 12. was formerly enslaved and a Carpenter; accused of planning a major slave revolt in 1822
  10. 15. author of the book Uncle Tom's Cabin
  11. 18. Wife of Abraham Lincoln
  12. 20. Famous military leader and Union general who played a crucial role in the victory over the Confederate States
  13. 22. One of the best-known commanders of the Confederate States Army after Robert E. Lee