Hardin county,Kentucky

Lincoln is famous for giving the Gettysburg database.

he was a lawyer first and never went to college.

Raleigh, north Carolina , Greeneville Tenn

He was military governor of Tennessee and vice president of the United States.

Point Pleasant Ohio, Wilton, New York

was working as a clerk at his father's store.

Grant was a general in the Union Army, his wife and her family enslaved people before and during the war.

Delaware, Ohio, Sandusky, Ohio

start of the Rutherford B. Hayes presidency

Hayes's presidency signaled the end of a key and controversial era in American history

Fayetteville, North Carolina, Aberdeen, Mississippi

He later graduated from Knox College in Galesburg, IL.

Like some of his contemporaries

He served in the U.S. Senate from Feb. 25, 1870 to March 3, 1871

Georgetown, South Carolina,Georgetown, South Carolina,

Rainey was drafted to work on Confederate fortifications in Charleston harbor and serve passengers on a Confederate ship.

Rainey dramatized the latter issue by refusing to leave the dining room of a hotel in Suffolk, Virginia.

Beaufort, South Carolina,United states

Robert Smalls, and his crew sailed the vessel from its dock in Charleston Harbor, discreetly slipped past Confederate cannons at Fort Sumter, and surrendered the ship to the Union blockading squadron.

Robert Smalls and the Planter became a national phenomenon.

Talbot County, Maryland,Washington, District of Columbia

He held several prominent positions in government in his later life.

He died of a heart attack in February 1895.

Danville, Vermont,Washington

Thaddeus Stevens was one of the more remarkable men in American politics in the first half of the 19th century, the era between the passing of the Founding Fathers and the coming of the Civil War.

For several years, Stevens pursued the career of a lawyer with only moderate success but upon successfully defending a murderer on the grounds of insanity

Yonkers, New York,New Lebanon, New York

During the 1840s Tilden associated with the reformist, antislavery wing of the New York Democrats.

As a lawyer and businessman, Tilden was an unqualified success.

in Boston, Massachusetts,isle of Wight, Georgia

As contraband, Taylor and her family were expected to work for the Union army in some capacity, usually as field laborers.

Susie King Taylor was one of many African American Southern women who served the Union army as a laundress, nurse, and teacher.

Dorchester, Maryland,Auburn, New York

Truth was born into slavery but managed to escape before slavery was outlawed by the federal government in the late 1800s.

She spent the remainder of her life fighting for equal rights for African Americans and women

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