Harriet Beecher Stowe was born on June 14, 1811 in Litchfield, Connecticut. Harriet was one 13 children born to a religious leader Lyman Beecher and his wife Roxanna Foote Beecher. Harriet Beecher Stowe was an author and an abolitionist. In 1852 she was the author of, one of americas most famous literary novel , Uncle tom's cabin, . Which she captivated the lives of american slave to capture the vivid emotional cruel realities of the treatment of american slaves in her time. Her novel was inspirational tool in americas actions towards the abolishing of slavery in america.president Lincoln is alleged to have said, "you're the little lady who stated this grate war."The novel also fueled abolitionist groups from then north, and continued to be a opposed in the south which lead to the grate american civil war. Quote: “So long as the law considers all these human beings, with beating hearts and living affections, only as so many things belonging to the master -- so long as the failure, or misfortune, or imprudence, or death of the kindest owner, may cause them any day to exchange a life of kind protection and indulgence for one of hopeless misery and toil -- so long it is impossible to make anything beautiful or desirable in the best-regulated administration of slavery.”
Charles Summer was born on January 6, 1811. born in Boston summer's grew up to become a politician and a senator in 1852 in his home town of Massachusetts. As a active member of the senate summer was an anti-slavery activist. summer's was also a leader of the Radical Republicans during the civil war and the reconstruction after. Summer was also the leader of an anti-slavery force group whose focus was to guarantee the freedom and equal rights for freedman (former slaves). Sumner fought hard to provide equal civil and voting rights for the freedmen and devoted his enormous energy to the destruction of “Slave Power” and all attempts and efforts of slave owners to take control of the federal government to ensure the survival and expansion of slavery. . He also fought hard to control ex-confederate and believed that the south should be punished after the war was won by the Union. Summer is most notably know for being the author of the nation's first civil right Legislation. Sumner died while still in office at 63 years of age. Quote: “From the beginning of our history the country has been afflicted with compromise. It is by compromise that human rights have been abandoned.”
John Brown was born may 9, 1800 in Connecticut. Brown was a man of action. He fought to keep his mission to abolish slavery in america. Brown used militant action to free slaves in the south. Despite his contribution to anti-slavery brown didn't as a major figure until 1855 where and his five son fought a proslavery attack on a anti-slavery town of Lawrence in the Kansas territory. In retribution brown attack a proslavery town and brutally killed five of its settlers. Brown returned to the east to plan for a in Virginia against slavery. Brown lead a army of 21 man to raid a federal arsenal at Harper's Ferry in Virginia in 1859. His plan was to arm slaves so they could their way to freedom. But his plan was put to a stop farmers and the marines led by Robert E. lee. All of Brown man were killed or captured. Brown was wounded and quickly captured and tried and convicted of treason and was sentenced to death. Brown was hanged on december 2,1859. quote: "I believe to have interfered as I have done, . . . in behalf of His despised poor, was not wrong, but right. Now, if it be deemed necessary that I should forfeit my life for the furtherance of the ends of justice, and mingle my blood further with the blood of my children, and with the blood of millions in this slave country whose rights are disregarded by wicked, cruel, and unjust enactments, I submit: so let it be done."
Stephen Douglas was born april 23,1813 in Brandon , Vermont. Douglas nicknamed the "Little Giant" for his short stature, larger head, and broad shoulders. Douglas was a forceful and dominate figure in american politics in his time. A democrat Douglas was nominated for presidency by democrats of the north in 1861. In a election that he lost to Abraham lincoln. Douglas as a chairman of the senate was largely responsible for the Compromise of 1850 but four later he reopened slavey dispute with Kansas- Nebraska act. Douglas believed in the principle of popular sovereignty that the government is crated and subjected to the will of the people. Douglas was stricken with typhoid in 1861 and died in Chicago 2 mouths after the fort Sumter incident. Douglas was nether for proslavery or anti-slavery he believed in the union. Quote: There are only two sides to this question. Every man must be for the United States or against it. There can be no neutrals in this war; only patriots and traitors.
Abraham lincoln was born in february 12,1809 in Hardin county Kentucky. Lincoln was the 16th elected president of the united states. Lincoln helped lead the country through one of its most constitutional, military, and morel crises in United states history- The American Civil war. Shortly after Lincoln election and his idea for emancipation proclamation seven southern states declared their secession from the Union to form the confederacy so they could keep slavery. This act of separation and the south wanting to keep slavery was the driving factor for lincoln to take military action against the south. Lincoln proved to be a shrewd military strategist and a savvy leader in order to bring back the country together and impose his emancipation proclamation to free all the slave from slavery in the south. . .Lincoln was president from 1861 to his assassination in 1865 by john Wilkes Both. quote: Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
Jefferson Davis was born on june 3,1809. Jefferson was proslavery, U.S. senator from Mississippi, and secretary of war. Davis argued against secession during the duration of the civil war, but resigned from the U.S. senate when Mississippi seceded from the Union to join the confederates states. was elected president of the confederate states of america. He faced difficulties throughout the war as he struggled to manage the south war efforts, control the Confederates economy, and keep a new nation United. In may 1865 , several weeks after the confederate surrender, Davis was captured, imprisoned and charged with treason, Never tried. Quote: "If slavery be a sin, it is not yours. It does not rest on your action for its origin, on your consent for its existence. It is a common law right to property in the service of man; its origin was Divine decree."
Ulysses S. Grant was born on april 27,1822. Grant was the 18th president of the united states. Grant was given command of all the U.S. armies. As a aggressive and determined leader he lead the Union to victory over the south, and became a national hero. Grant was given the republican nomination for president and was elected president of the U.S. in 1869. His administration focus was reconstruction, he worked to bring back together the north and the south and protect the civil rights of the newly freed black slaves. Grant administration do to some of his associates who corrupt was tarnished by various scandals. Quote:“In every battle there comes a time when both sides consider themselves beaten then he who continues the attack wins.”
Robert E Lee was born on january 19,1807. Lee commitment to the army was superseded by his commitment to Virginia. Lee turned down the president offer to command the Union force to join and command the northern Virginia army after Virginia secession from the Union. Lee lead his forces in the battle of Gettysburg which nearly destroyed his army, and ended his invasion of the north and was the turning point of the civil war for the Union. Lee was forced to abandon richmond after it was decimated by Grant and a week later was captured by Grant. Saved from being hanged as a traitor by a forgiving Lincoln and returned to Virginia where he became the president of a small college western Virginia, and later died after suffering a massive stroke in october 1870. Lee considered heroic figure in the South.Quote:"The education of a man is never completed until he dies."
William Tecumseh Sherman was born on february 8, 1820. Sherman commanded the west Union army and lead his army to the first major battle in the war at bull run in Virginia. Sherman also lead his man to perhaps the boldest act in the war the " marge to the sea" where they destroyed the roads, houses, and people to cripple their military resources delivering death blows to what was left of the confederacy will and ability to fight. His name is still cursed in some parts of the south. Sherman after the war succeeded Grant as commander in chief in 1869 and remained in that post until 1883. His also remembered most famously his Rejection of the republicans nomination for president. " I will not accept if nominated and will not serve if elected". Sherman died in 1891 in new york. Quote: war is cruelty, and you cannot refine it" " war is hell"