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| 7850328207 | John Wilkes Booth | A Southern actor and assassin who shot Abraham Lincoln to death in Ford's Theater in April of 1865. | 0 | |
| 7850328208 | Robert E. Lee | He was the General of the Confederate troops. He had early successes in the Civil War but eventually surrendered to the Union at Appomattox Court House on April 9, 1865. | 1 | |
| 7850589001 | Thomas Jackson | He was Lee's chief lieutenant, killed by own men at Chancellorsville. Nicknamed "Stonewall". | 2 | |
| 7850328209 | Clement Vallandingham | Was a Copperhead Democrat and Ohio ex congressmen. He was a Southern partisan who publicly demanded an end to the "wicked and cruel" war. He was convicted by a military tribunal in 1863 for treasonable utterance and was sentenced to prison. Lincoln decided to banish him to the Confederate lines. He ran for governorship of Ohio on foreign soil and polled a substantial but insufficient vote. He returned to his own state before the war ended and was not further prosecuted. His story was the inspiration for the novel "The Man without a Country "(1863). | 3 | |
| 7850328211 | Ulysses S. Grant | He was a Northern general who helped gain victory for the Union. His first successful victories came at Fort Henry and Fort Donelson where he earned the nickname "Unconditional Surrender" Eventually he was made General-in-Chief after several more impressive victories. His final victory came when he defeated the Confederates at Richmond and forced them to surrender at Appomattox Court House on April 1865. | 4 | |
| 7850328212 | George McClellan | He was a general for northern command of the Army of the Potomac in 1861; nicknamed "Tardy George" because of his failure to move troops to Richmond. Lincoln fired him twice. He later ran for president in 1864 against Lincoln and lost. | 5 | |
| 7850328213 | William Sherman | He was a Union general whose troops captured Atlanta, Georgia. He then headed to take Savannah. This was his famous/infamous "March to the Sea." His troops burnt barns and houses, and destroyed the countryside. His march showed a shift in the belief that only military targets should be destroyed. Civilian centers could also be targets. He is famous for his quote, "War is hell." | 6 | |
| 7850328214 | George Meade | Union General who replaced Hooker and defeated Lee at Gettysburg. | 7 | |
| 7850328215 | Salmon Chase | Overambitious Secretary of the Treasury who had a faction vying for his succession of Lincoln. Was appointed to the Supreme Court by Lincoln in 1864. | 8 | |
| 7850328216 | David Farragut | Union naval admiral whose fleet captured New Orleans and Baton Rouge. | 9 | |
| 7850328217 | George Pickett | U.S. Army officer who became a general in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. He is best remembered for his participation in the futile and bloody assault at the Battle of Gettysburg that bears his name. | 10 | |
| 7850328218 | Edward Everett Hale | Wrote "The Man Without a Country." | 11 |
