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Famous People - The Civil War

Ulysses S. Grant
 * Born 1822
 * Fought for the union

Ulysses S Grant was a Major General of Volunteers for the union. He stay general until the confederate surrendered in 1865.

John Adams
 * Born 1825
 * Fought for the Confederate

John Adams was a Brigadier Gerneral for the south after the former general had died. he had enlisted into theconfederate army in 1861 and died in 1864 at the battle of Franklin.

Willam F. Perry
 * Born 1823
 * Fought for Confederate

William Perry was a Brigadier Gerneral in the Civil war. He had fought in the battles of Gettysberg and the Second Bull run. He left the millitary after the civil war and lived until 1901.

Rufus Saxton
 * Born 1824
 * Fought for the Union

Rufus Saxton was a Brigadier Gerneral for the Union. He graduated from the Millitary Acadamy in 1849. He fought in the the battle of Port Royal and in the defence of Shenandoah Valley. After the war he stay in the millitary untill 1888 when he retired and he died in 1908.

Samuel P. Heintzelman
 * Born 1805
 * Fought for the Union

Samuel P. Heintzelman was a Major General for the Civil War. Before the Civil war he spent 20 years on garrison duty. In the Civil war He fought in the First and second bull run, and Yorktown.

Famous Battles

Gettysburg Location: Pensilvania Date: July 1–3, 1863 Winner: Union Generals: Robert Lee (Confederate), George Meade (Union)

Chancellorville Location: Spotsylvania County, Virginia Date: April 30--May 6,1863 Winner: Confederates Generals: Joe Hooker (Union), Robert Lee (Confederate)

Ft. Sumpter Location: Charleston, South Carolina Date:April 12–13, 1861 Winner: Confederate Generals:Robert Anderson(Union), Pierre T. Beauregard(Confederate)

First Bull Run Location: Fairfax County, Virginia Date: July 21, 1861 Winner: Confederate Generals:Irvin McDowell(Union), Pierre T. Beauregard(Confederate)

Pea Ridge Location: North West Arkansas Date: March 7-8,1862 Winner: Union Generals: Sterling Price(Union), Earl Van Dorn (Confederate)

Slave Laws

Fugitive slave act the fugitive slave act was a law passed by congress for any police, federal state of local, to arrest any suspected runaway slave or be charged a fine

Emancipation Proclamation The Emancipation Proclamation is an order by Abraham Lincoln. this was to free any slave in the confederate untied states.

Slave trade act The slave trade act was pass my congress to slow down the shipping of human cargo. the shipping of slaves had stopped in 1865.

Act to protect the commerce of the united states This law was passed to any one trading slave to be punished by death, as a form of piracy.

13th amendment the 13th amendment was passed after the Civil War ends. this amendment stop the act of slavery in the us and most slaves are set free. 