S.S. chapter 17 people
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Abraham Lincoln | 16th president, little experience but became a strong leader. |
| Jefferson Davis | political leader for confederates. Graduated from West Point. Fought in Mexican war. |
| Robert E. Lee | Commanding officer of the confederate army; led troops at Antietam and Gettysburg. |
| Stonewall Jackson | Great confederate office in the early part of the war. |
| James Longstreet | confederate general. fought at Fredricksburg and Gettysburg argued with Leeover strategy during Gettysburg. |
| George McClellan | commander of the Union Army ; argued wit hlincoln and was dismissed |
| Ulysses S. Grant | Union officer, who captured Vicksburg; named commander of the Union army. |
| William Tecumseh Sherman | Union officer who burned Atlanta and "marched to the sea" through Georgia, destroying everything. |
| Rose O'neal Greenhow | served as confederate spy; expert from getting info from gov't and union officers. |
| Elizabeth Van Lew | served as union agent managed to plant a spy inside confederate white house. |
| Clara Barton | Nurse during the Civil War; started the American Red Cross |
| John Wilks Booth | actor, shoot Lincoln in fords theatre. |
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