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Horace Greeley

Horace Greeley (1811–1872) was the influential editor of the New York Daily Tribune. Greeley founded the Tribune in 1841 and edited the paper for more than thirty years. Greeley used the paper as a platform for reform causes. He opposed slavery, tobacco and alcohol use, gambling, and prostitution. Greeley also supported westward expansion. In 1854, after the disintegration of the Whig Party, Greeley became involved in the newly formed Republican Party and used the Tribune to promote its anti-slavery platform....

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Ambrose Burnside

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Andrew Johnson

Andrew Johnson of Tennessee was the only southern senator not to embrace secession and the Confederacy. In 1864, Johnson, a Democrat, became President Abraham Lincoln’s vice president; Lincoln hoped that Johnson’s vice presidency would appeal to both Unionists and Democrats in the border states. Upon Lincoln’s assassination in 1865, Johnson became president. As president, he instituted some of the first actions of Reconstruction, including his proclamation of...

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Benjamin Butler

Benjamin Butler (1818–1893) was an American politician and a Union general during the Civil War. During the 1850s, Burnside served as a Democrat in the Massachusetts state legislature. Butler worked to compromise with Southerners to prevent disunion, but he steadfasty supported the Union when war broke out. He received a political appointment as a Union officer, and as brigadier general in the Massachusetts militia he commanded troops in putting down the Baltimore Riots of 1861. He was promoted to major general and stationed in command at...

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George B. McClellan

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Jefferson Davis

Jefferson Davis graduated from West Point in 1828 and served in Iowa under Colonel Zachary Taylor. He left the Army in June 1835 to marry Taylor’s daughter Sarah (against her father’s wishes) and begin a career as a planter in Mississippi, though Sarah soon died of malaria. Davis entered the US House of Representatives in 1845 but resigned the following year to join a Mississippi volunteer regiment (of which he was elected colonel) in the Mexican-American War. In Mexico, Davis once again served under Taylor. He was wounded in the heel while...

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Ulysses S. Grant

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William Seward

William Henry Seward (1801–1872) was a US senator from New York and later secretary of state in the Cabinet of President Abraham Lincoln. Seward was an abolitionist, and he helped Lincoln revise the Emancipation Proclamation before it was issued. Seward was also attacked on the night of Lincoln’s assassination but survived to serve as secretary of state to Andrew Johnson. In that office he negotiated the 1867 purchase of Alaska.

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Winfield Scott

Winfield Scott (1786–1866), “Old Fuss and Feathers,” was the associate of every president from Jefferson to Lincoln. Scott entered the military in 1809 and distinguished himself during the War of 1812 at the battles of Chippewa and Lundy’s Lane. He went on to serve in the Black Hawk War and the campaign against the Seminole and Creole Indians. After mediating an Anglo-American dispute over the Canadian border in 1838, Scott was appointed general-in-chief of the US Army in 1841. Due to his successes in the Mexican-American War (1846–1848),...

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Mary Edwards Walker

Mary Edwards Walker (1832–1919) was a female Civil War physician who received the Medal of Honor for her service. Walker received her medical degree from Syracuse Medical College in 1855. At the start of the Civil War, she offered to work as a surgeon for the Army. The Army initially refused her services, but she was able to practice after she agreed to work unpaid. Walker tended to Union wounded on site and at a hospital in Washington, DC. She earned the respect and admiration of her male colleagues and eventually received a paid contract...