VIP's of the Civil War

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VIP's of the Civil War

Robert E. Lee

He died on October 12, 1870.

Lee owned slaves and had white supremacist views throughout his life.

He surrendered to the Unions as the whole Confederate.

Robert E. Lee was the General of the Confederate Army.

He was born on January 19, 1807.

Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln wanted to unionize the nation and the North had an economic advantage so he sided with whatever the North wanted which was to abolish slavery.

Abraham Lincoln was assassinated on April 15, 1865.

He wrote the Emancipation Proclamation.

Lincoln created the Secret Service hours before his assassination.

Lincoln was elected as the U.S' 16th President.

Abraham Lincoln was born on February 12, 1809.

John Reagan

John Reagan died on March 6, 1905.

Reagan and his group of people would raid U.S. postal service to take documents from them.

Before joining the confederacy Reagan was part of the U.S. congress and senate.

Reagan served as a cabinet member of Confederate President Jefferson Davis as Postmaster General.

John Reagan was born on October 8, 1818.

John Bell Hood

John Bell Hood died on August 30, 1879.

In Killeen TX Fort Hood is named after him.

He also fought in the Seven Day's campaign and the battle of Gettysburg.

Hood was the leader of the Confederacy’s Hood’s Texas Brigade.

John Bell hood was born on June 29, 1831.

Jefferson Davis

He died on December 6, 1889.

He was the president of the Confederate States.

He also served in House of Representatives.

He served in the Senate.

Davis was a former United States Secretary of War.

He was born on June 3, 1808.

Ulysses S. Grant

He died on July 23, 1885.

He was a radical Republican.

Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered on April 9, 1865 to Ulysses S. Grant.

He was the 18th president.

He was born on April 27, 1822.

Francis Lubbock

Francis Lubbock died on June 22, 1905.

Francis Lubbock has a whole county and city named after him in Texas.

He raised 32 companies of volunteer to help fight for the Confederacy.

Lubbock was elected as Texas’ first Confederate governor

Francis Lubbock was born on October 16, 1815.

Thomas Green

Thomas Green died on April 12, 1864.

Green led the troops that were on the steamboats converted to gunboats.

He made gunboats attack Union ships in Galveston Bay and took back control of Galveston for the confederate forces.

Green was a captain of the Confederate Army.

Thomas Green was born on June 8, 1814.

John Magruder

John Magruder died on February 19, 1871.

He also recaptured Galveston by attacking Union ships using steamboats converted to gunboats by lining the sides with cotton bales to protect the riflemen

He won the Battle of Big Bethel, which fortified the Virginia Peninsula.

Magruder commanded the Confederate forces in Texas.

John Magruder was born on May 1, 1807.