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- Abraham Lincolon was elected president in 1861. He issued the Emancipation Proclamation to free the slaves.
- Jefferson Davis was elected president of the Confederacy. Davis had poor relations with the leaders an it caused them to put their states welfare above the Confederacy's.
- Ulysses S. Grant was appointed hero of the battle at Vicksburg an commander of all Union armies.
- Robert E. Lee was a aristocratic he believed slavery was evil but he still fought for the Confederacy because he was loyal to his home state of Virginia. He was the leader of the Confederates during the Civil War.
- Fredrick Douglass was a slave owner that believed that colored men had no rights.