Zachary Taylor - Nominated by the Whigs as Presidential candidate
John C. Calhoun - A pale, gray-headed figure who shivered and coughed with tuberculosis
Daniel Webster - Remembered for his Seventh of March Speech
Franklin Pierce - Defeated Whigs candidate General Winfield Scott
Harriet Tubman - An escaped slave from Maryland
James Buchanan - Bought a healthy respect for the Constitution
Stephen Douglas - Introduced the Kansas-Nebraska Act; promoter of the Kansas-Nebraska Bill
General Robert E. Lee - Confederate General who led the charge at Cemetery Ridge, captured John Brown before the raid occurred; commander of the Confederate forces
Jefferson Davis - President of the Confederate States; Senator from Mississippi who became the first and only president of the Confederate States of America
General Ulysses S. Grant - Union commanding general at the end of the Civil War; after the Confederates surrendered, he allowed them to keep their animals and rifles. Great general of the Union Army; later served as Republican President from 1869 to 1877
General William Tecumseh Sherman - Union General who led the March to the Sea from Atlanta; burned Atlanta, Savannah, and Columbia
Clara Barton - Helped organize the American Red Cross; was known as the "Angel of the Battlefield"
John Wilkes Booth - Shot President Abraham Lincoln
Rutherford B. Hayes - President when Reconstruction ended in the South
Booker T. Washington - The great American educator; founded Tuskegee Institute