5 Union People

ulysses GRANT

• Grant was born on April 27th, 1822
• July 1861, Ulysses was promoted a Brigadier General of the Civil war
•  Ulysses was given command of the district of  South East Missouri 
• Ulysses had triumphs at Fort Henry and at Fort Donelson in 1862
• Ulysses Grant died July 23rd, 1885

winfield s. hancock

• Hancock was born February 14, 1824
• He was promoted a Brigadier General on September 23, 1861
• His most famous service was in the Battle of Gettysburg 
• He alslo took part in the Battle of Williamsburg and the Battle of Antietam
• Hancock died on February 9th 1886

abraham lincoln

• Lincoln was born on February 12th, 1809 
• Lincoln was the president of the Union during the civil war
• His goal was to reunite the nation
• He pushed the Congress to pass the 13th Amendment, abolishing slavery 
• Lincoln died on April 14th, 1865

George Thomas

• Thomas was born on July 31st, 1816
• Thomas was appointed instructor of cavalry and artillery
• He was offered a job by the confederacy, but turned it down
• Later on, he commanded the department of the Cumberland in Kentucky
• Thomas died March 28th 1870

Josh L. chamberlain

• Chamberlain was born on September 8, 1828
• He was part of a group called the 20th Maine Regiment 
• He was voted the lieutenant colonel of the 20th Maine Regiment
• He fought in the Battle of Fredericksburg and the Battle of Gettysburg
• Chamberlain died on February 24, 1914

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