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=    ﻿ ﻿ ﻿ ﻿ ﻿ =   __//** ﻿ The Union**//__ The union was the northern group of people who didn't like the idea of slaves, however this wasn't the reason the civil War was started. The Union was very industrialized, because the north was going through the industrial revolution. __//**﻿﻿**//__ = __//**People of the North**//__ = = **__//﻿//__** =

**__//Abraham Lincoln//__** Abraham Lincoln was the president of the United States at the the time and had a lot on his plate. He was born on February 12th,1809 in Illinois.He was born into a very poor family of farmers and eventually became a lawyer for he was very smart. He led the union to connect both northern and southern areas of the U.S. in the war in which brother was fighting brother.His party was Republican and he was president for four years, his vice presidents where Hannibal Hamlin and Andrew Johnson. Lincoln was, and still is, very famous for the Gettysburg Address. He married Mary Todd Lincoln, who was brought up into a very wealthy family.Mary’s parents disagreed with her marrying Abraham because he had a poor background. Marry and Abraham had four children: Robert Todd Lincoln, Edward Lincoln, Willie Lincoln, Tad Lincoln, and only Robert Todd Lincoln survived into adulthood. Abraham's birth mother died from milk sickness and he became very close with his widowed step-mother. He was assassinated April 15th 1865 at the age of 56, he was the first president to be assassinated.

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__//**Frederick Douglass**//__ Douglass was a former Maryland slave and he secretly tought himself the alphabet, how to read, and to write. (It was illegal for slaves at the time to have any education.) He escaped to the north in 1838, after this he met a abolitionist named William Lloyd Garrison. Garrison told Douglass to share his story many times, and eventually did by writing his autobiograpy, __//"Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass"//__ which he was most famous for at the time. He even founded a new abolitionist news paper, The North Star, and was well known for it as well. Douglass had five children, four of them lived to adulthood, his daughter Annie died at the age of 10. his other children where: Charles Remond Douglass, Frederick Douglass Jr., Lewis Henry Douglass, and Rosetta Douglass. The three of his sons served in the 54th Massachusetts. __//**﻿**//__ __//** Clara Barton **//__ Clara Barton was a former schoolmistress, was working as a patent clerk in Washington D.C. when the civil was began and she was egar to help so she volinteered at the City's infirmary. After the battle of Bull Run, she started up relief programs for union soldiers, traveling all over th U.S. (where a battle took place) to help the hurt and find the missing. When the war ended, she had help find thousands of missing soldiers, including identifying the dead at Andersonville prison in Georgia. Barton's war experiences inspired her to set up the American branch of the International Red Cross in 1881, she remained the president until 1904.

**__Ulysses S. Grant __** Educated at West Point, Grant was working in his family's leather goods store when war broke out in 1861. After hard-won victories at Vicksburg and Chattanooga, Lincoln made Grant general in chief of all Union armies in 1864.. He was given command of Union troops in southeast Missouri and led the capture of Forts Henry and Donelson in 1862. Lincoln said firmly to the critics "I can not spare this man, he fights." As he ran for president his relentless campaign against Petersburg and Richmond forced the surrender of Confederate General Robert E. Lee in April 1865, effectively ending the war and Grant won election as the 18th president of the United States 

**__William Tecumseh Sherman__**

**Willam Tecumseh Sherman made his reputation leading a division in Ulysses S. Grant's army during the Vicksburg and Chattanooga campaigns. ****Sherman led some 100,000 forces against Atlanta. ** ** His capture of the city by September boosted Union morale and ensured President Lincoln's reelection. ** ** On April 26, he accepted Confederate General Joseph Johnston's surrender at Durham. **



**//Army of Potomac//** Impresive (including at Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville) and won some of the most crucial victories in the war's eastern theater, twice turning back Confederate invasions of the North (at Antietam and Gettysburg). After a long and grueling campaign, the Army of the Potomac broke through against its chief opponent, Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia, at Petersburg in April 1865, forcing Lee's surrender to U.S. Grant days later.    ____54th Massachusetts__ __ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;"> <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; line-height: 115%; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">The Emancipation Proclamation officially authorized the use of African-American troops in combat. 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, organized in early 1863 by order of Gov. John Andrew. They played a strong role in the war for African-Americans and they where comanded by Rober Shaw. Fort Wagner was the fort of the south in South Carolina.( By the outter island of Charleston) When the flag holder got shot <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 115%; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;"> Willam Carney took the flag and held it the rest of the way. He was the first African American to be awarded the congresstional medial of honner. The 54th massachusetts lost half of their men, they were killed wounded or captured. After Willam Carney took the flag he told his men" Boys the ole flag never touch ground" he was an insperation to all African Americans of the world. After Fort Wagener These African Americans bring a new meaning to the war. media type="custom" key="9542018" align="right" <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #808080; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 115%; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;"><span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #ff0000; font-size: 16px; line-height: 115%; vertical-align: auto;">Copperheads <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #808080; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 115%; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;"><span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #ff0000; font-size: 16px; line-height: 115%; vertical-align: auto;">They were norther Republicans first used to use the term copperheads in 1861 to refer to the conserative antiwar faction of democratic party. They were also known as "Peace Democrats." The Copperheads did not like the draft of the Emancipatetion Proclomation along with financal measures to support the Union in war effort.Copperheads played a major role in the 1894 presidential covention in Chicago,declaring the war was a failer. They thought George B. Mc Clellan to run on a peace platform,but timely Union Victories at atlanta ensured Lincoln's reelection. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #808080; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 115%; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #808080; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 115%; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #808080; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 115%; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #808080; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 115%; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">__//**<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #808080; font-size: 16px; line-height: 115%; vertical-align: auto;">I nteresting Facts on The North **//__ *180,000 African Amaricans fought for the union. * 25% of union soldiers were immigrants or 2nd genoration Americans. * more than 200 women disgised as men served secretly. * more than 10,000 native amaricans served on both sides. * most of the union was made up of farmers. * 80% of people that served in the union were literate. * 6,759 union people who served were navy officers. * 51,300 union people who served were sailors. * 3,850 union people who served were marines