Jefferson Davis

Abraham Lincoln
President of the United States
by Wayne

President of the Confederacy

by George

Jefferson Davis was the President of the

Confederate States of America. He was also
Abraham Lincoln was President of the United Commander - in - Chief of the Confederate
States during the Civil War from 1860-1865.
Army. He was a colonel in the United States
He was born in a log cabin near Hodgenville,
Army during the Mexican-American War. He
Kentucky, on February 12, 1809. When he was was Secretary of War and also a United
president he was also the Commander-in-Chief States Senator.
of the Union Army, which is the highestranking military officer. He appointed generals Jefferson Davis was born in the South and
to command his troops. In 1863 he issued the grew up on a cotton plantation. When he was
Emancipation Proclamation which declared that 16 years old he went to the Military Academy
all slaves in the Confederate States would be at West Point. The training he got at the
free. This helped end slavery in the United
military school helped him to become a great
States. The same year he gave a great speech military leader and is one of the reasons the
called the Gettysburg Address at a cemetery Confederates won so many battles at the
in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. He wanted to
beginning of the Civil War.
honor all the soldiers who had lost their lives
in the war. Many people thought he was a
great president, but some people did not like
his views on slavery. President Lincoln was
assassinated on April 14, 1865 by John Wilkes
Booth at a theater in Washington DC. This was
only five days after the South surrendered to
end the Civil War.

Ulysses S. Grant

Robert E. Lee

Union General

Confederate General

by Amanda

by Darrielle

Ulysses S. Grant was the leader of the Union

Army. He had all the qualities President
Lincoln wanted for the commander of his army.
Grant fought very hard and was very stubborn
in battles. He did not like to be defeated.

Robert E. Lee was the South's greatest

general during the Civil War. He graduated
from West Point Military Academy and
became a colonel in the army before the Civil
War began. He was from Virginia and decided
to fight on the side of the Confederates even
though President Lincoln asked him to be
commander of the entire Union Army. General
Lee wanted to fight for the South and remain
loyal to his home state.

Grant was trained at the Military Academy at

West Point, New York. During the MexicanAmerican War he was a second lieutenant in
the army. In 1854 he went home to his family.
When the Civil War began and the North
began losing so many battles, Grant joined the
Army for a second time. He was an excellent
military leader because of his training and
skill. General Robert E. Lee, The leader of the
Confederate Army had to surrender to
General Grant in 1865. Later General Grant
became president of the United States twice.
People remember him as a great war hero.
They felt he did more as a leader of the army
than what he did as president.

General Lee was a fierce fighter and helped

his soldiers win many battles at the beginning
of the Civil War. But the Union Army was
bigger and stronger. Lee felt he had to
surrender to the North to stop so many of his
soldiers from being killed.