The Civil War
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Important People
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Charles Summer
John Brown
Stephen Douglas
Abraham Lincoln
Jefferson Davis
Ulysses S. Grant
Robert E. Lee
William Tecumseh Sherman
Special Events and Places
Lincoln-Douglas Debates-Fort Sumter
Bull Run- Gettysburg & Gettysburg Address
Andersonville Prison- Reconstruction
Long Term Causes of The War and Triggering Events
Soldier Letter
Art Work
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Jefferson Davis
J
efferson Davis was the first and only president of the Confederate States of America. A slave owner himself he was a strong believer in the importance of the institution of slavery for the South.