Jefferson Davis stressed states rights to secede from the Union. He was also the president of the Confederate during the Civil War.-AmericanHistoryabout.com "Jefferson Finis Davis he was born on June 3, 1808 – December 6, 1889) was a United States soldier and statesman, and was the President of the Confederate States of America during the entire Civil War which was fought from 1861 to 1865. He took personal charge of the Confederate war plans but was unable to find a strategy to defeat the larger, more powerful and better organized Union. His diplomatic efforts failed to gain recognition from any foreign country. At home he paid little attention to the collapsing Confederate economy; the government printed more and more paper money to cover the war's expenses, leading to runaway inflation."-Wikipedia
Robert E. Lee was a general in the confederate army during the Civil War. He was considered one of the most appointed generals of the confederate at the time -America Historyabout.com "Lee also was involved in the Mexican -American War he acted as one of Winfield Scott's chiefs. Lee was born at Stratford Hall Plantation in Westmoreland County, Virginia, the son of Major General Henry Lee III (Light Horse Harry) (1756–1818), Governor of Virginia, and his second wife, Anne Hill Carter (1773–1829). His birth date has traditionally been recorded as January 19, 1807, but according to the historian Elizabeth Brown Pryor, "Lee's writings indicate he may have been born the previous year. Lee rarely talked about his youth as an adult, so you can't find many facts on his youthful times."-Wikipedia
Ulysses was a general for the Union. He eventually defeated the confederate army. He was considered to be the most influential general in the Union. -AmericanHistoryabout.com
"Ulysses S. Grant (born Hiram Ulysses Grant; was born on April 27, 1822 and died on July 23, 1885)Grant was the 18th president of the United States (1869–1877) following his success as military commander in the American Civil War. Under the command of Grant, the Union Army defeated the Confederate military; the war, and secession, ended with the surrender of Robert E. Lee's army at Appomattox Court House. As president, Grant led the Radical Republicans in their effort to eliminate vestiges of Confederate nationalism and slavery, protect African American citizenship, and defeat the Ku Klux Klan.When Grant was 17, Congressman Thomas L. Hamer nominated him for a position at the United States Military Academy (USMA) at West Point, New York. Hamer mistakenly wrote down the name as "Ulysses S. Grant of Ohio." At West Point, he adopted this name with a middle initial only. His nickname became "Sam" among army colleagues at the academy, since the initials "U.S." also stood for "Uncle Sam."-Wikipedia
"Ulysses S. Grant (born Hiram Ulysses Grant; was born on April 27, 1822 and died on July 23, 1885)Grant was the 18th president of the United States (1869–1877) following his success as military commander in the American Civil War. Under the command of Grant, the Union Army defeated the Confederate military; the war, and secession, ended with the surrender of Robert E. Lee's army at Appomattox Court House. As president, Grant led the Radical Republicans in their effort to eliminate vestiges of Confederate nationalism and slavery, protect African American citizenship, and defeat the Ku Klux Klan.When Grant was 17, Congressman Thomas L. Hamer nominated him for a position at the United States Military Academy (USMA) at West Point, New York. Hamer mistakenly wrote down the name as "Ulysses S. Grant of Ohio." At West Point, he adopted this name with a middle initial only. His nickname became "Sam" among army colleagues at the academy, since the initials "U.S." also stood for "Uncle Sam."-Wikipedia
"Abraham Lincoln was born February 12, 1809, the second child of Thomas Lincoln and Nancy Lincoln (née Hanks), in a one-room log cabin on the Sinking Spring Farm in Hardin County, Kentucky.On October 16, 1854, in his "Peoria Speech", Lincoln declared his opposition to slavery, which he repeated en route to the presidency.Speaking in his Kentucky accent, with a very powerful voice, he said the Kansas Act had a "declared indifference, but as I must think, a covert real zeal for the spread of slavery. I cannot but hate it. I hate it because of the monstrous injustice of slavery itself. I hate it because it deprives our republican example of its just influence in the world. On November 6, 1860, Lincoln was elected the 16th president of the United States, beating Democrat Stephen A. Douglas, John C. Breckinridge of the Southern Democrats, and John Bell of the new Constitutional Union Party. He was the first president from the Republican Party. His victory was entirely due to the strength of his support in the North and West; no ballots were cast for him in 10 of the 15 Southern slave states, and he won only two of 996 counties in all the Southern states."-Wikipedia Abraham Lincoln was the president of the Union during the Civil War.(Lincoln was the 16th president of the United States.) He was an abolitionist himself and believed in abolition. -AmericanHistoryabout.com "He also enforced many rights to have more power in the south than the north. In so doing he preserved the Union, abolished slavery, strengthened the national government and modernized the economy."-Wikipedia