Important People of the Civil War: Scavenger Hunt

Write your answers to the scavenger hunt below.

1. Name: Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard
   Side they supported: Confederate
   Job/role: General
   Famous for: Ordered the firing on Fort Sumter
   Additional Facts: _________________________________________
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2. Name: Jefferson Davis
   Side they supported: Confederacy
   Job/role: President of the Confederate States
   Famous for: Being the leader of the south during the Civil War
   Additional Facts: _________________________________________
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3. Name: Frederick Douglass
   Side they supported: Union
   Job/role: Former slave. Educated. Abolisionist
   Famous for: Speeches, fighting slavery, educated and published North Star
   Additional Facts: _________________________________________
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4. Name: John Brown Gordon
   Side they supported: Confederacy
   Job/role: Colonel in the army
   Famous for: Good leader, tough fighter, from Georgia
   Additional Facts: _________________________________________
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5. Name: Ulysses Simpson Grant
   Side they supported: Union
   Job/role: commander in chief of the Union army in the Civil War,
    18th President of the United States
   Famous for: Strategies won the Civil War for the North, great general
   Additional Facts: _________________________________________
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6. Name: Stonewall Jackson
   Side they supported: Confederacy
   Job/role: Confederate General
   Famous for: being like a "stonewall". Hard fighter, good leader
   Additional Facts: _________________________________________
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7. Name: Robert Edward Lee
   Side they supported: Confederacy
   Job/role: General in chief of the Confederate armies
   Famous for: Leading the South, military genius, great leader
   Additional Facts: _________________________________________
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8. Name: Abraham Lincoln
   Side they supported: Union
   Job/role: 16th President of the United States
   Famous for: President during the Civil War, freeing the slaves
   Additional Facts: _________________________________________
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9. Name: Mary Todd Lincoln
   Side they supported: Union
   Job/role: wife of President Abraham Lincoln
   Famous for: Loving the president, hateful outbursts, overspending
   Additional Facts: _________________________________________
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10. Name: Harriet Beecher Stowe
   Side they supported: Union
   Job/role: Writer
   Famous for: Wrote Uncle Tom's cabin describing the terribleness of slavery
   Additional Facts: _________________________________________
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11. Name: William Tecumseh Sherman
   Side they supported: Union
   Job/role: Union General
   Famous for: burning and defeating the South
   Additional Facts: _________________________________________
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12. Name: Jeb Stuart
   Side they supported: Confederacy
   Job/role: Confederate cavalry officer
   Famous for: reports of enemy troop movements were of particular value to the Southern comman
   Additional Facts: _________________________________________
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13. Name: Harriet Tubman
   Job/role: Escaped Slave: organized underground railroad
   Famous for: helping slaves escape on the underground railroad
   Additional Facts: _________________________________________
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14. Name: George Brinton McClellan
   Side they supported: Union
   Job/role: Union General
   Famous for: Not a very good leader.
   Additional Facts: _________________________________________
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15. Name: George Gordon Meade
   Side they supported: Union
   Job/role: Union General
   Famous for: Excellent leader of union army
   Additional Facts: _________________________________________
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16. Name: Clara Barton
   Side they supported: Both__________
   Job/role: Battlefield nurse
   Famous for: Helping wounded during the war; established American Red Cross
   Additional Facts: _________________________________________
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17. Name: Rose O'Neal Greenhow
   Side they supported: Confederacy
   Job/role: Spy
   Famous for: Helped get information to the Confederates. Credited with helping
    win the battle of Manassas
   Additional Facts: _________________________________________
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18. Name: Mathew B. Brady
   Side they supported: not stated
   Job/role: Photographer
   Famous for: recording the history of the Civil War through his photos.
   Additional Facts: _________________________________________
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