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 * Abraham Lincoln**- Abraham Lincoln won the presidential election of 1860 when he defeated Stephen Douglas. He spoke out against the insitution of slavery and wanted to end its practice in the United States. Due to these views, when he was elected, the southern states promptly seceded from the United States to form the Confederate States of America. In an attempt to stop this secession, the Civil War began in 1861.
 * Jefferson Davis**- Jefferson Davis was the first and only president of the Confederate States of America. He had not been an advocate for the secession when it occurred, but accepted the position of being its leader when he was called to it. This call came in 1861.
 * Robert E. Lee**- Robert E. Lee was the commander of the Army of Northern Virginia and eventually became the commander of all the Confederate Armies. Also, before the Civil War, he also helped lead the men who put down the raid on Harper's Ferry, VA, led by John Brown, in 1859. Lee, like Davis, did not support the idea of secession, but when his home state of Virginia seceded, he felt the need to take the side of the confederacy. Lee surrendered his sword to Grant, in April of 1865.
 * Ulysses S. Grant-** Ulysses S. Grant was an important Union general in the Civil War, who would later become the 18th president of the United States.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/grant/

http://www.sonofthesouth.net/leefoundation/About%20the%20General.htm

http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/al16.html

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