Honest Abe was the tallest president at 6 feet 4 inches tall.
He set up a national banking system while he was president. He also established the Department of Agriculture.
He was known as a gifted storyteller and liked to tell jokes.
On the day he was shot, Lincoln told his bodyguard that he had dreamt he would be assassinated.
He was the first president who had a full beard.
He often stored things like letters and documents in his tall stove-piped hat
Jefferson Davis
He was named Jefferson after the 3rd president Thomas Jefferson. His family called him Jeff while growing up.
His middle name was Finis, which means "final" in Latin. His parents named him this because they expected him to be their final child.
Abraham Lincoln was also born in a log cabin in Kentucky about eight months later and 100 miles from where Davis was born.
The people of Mississippi asked Davis to represent them in the US Senate a third time after the Civil War, but he was not allowed to serve as he refused to take an oath to the Union and was not legally a citizen of the United States.
Ulysses S. Grant
Grant's real name was Hiram Ulysses Grant, but it was entered incorrectly as Ulysses S. Grant when he went to West Point. Since he was embarrassed by his real initials (H.U.G), he didn't tell anyone and ended up going by Ulysses S. Grant for the rest of his life.
According to Grant, the "S" was just an initial and didn't stand for anything. Some said it stood for Simpson, his mother's maiden name.
When he was at West Point, his fellow Cadets called him Sam because U.S. could have stood for Uncle Sam.
When word got out that he was smoking a cigar during his famous attack on Fort Donelson, people sent him thousands of cigars to celebrate his victory.
Grant was invited to attend the play at the Ford's Theatre the night. President Lincoln was assassinated He turned down the invite and later regretted that he wasn't there to help protect Lincoln.
It was the famous author Mark Twain who suggested that Grant write an autobiography.
Robert E. Lee
The "E" stands for Edward.
Lee's ancestors were some of the first Europeans to settle in Virginia. He also had two relatives who signed the Declaration of Independence.
Robert and his wife Mary lived on her estate Arlington House up until the Civil War. Their land would later become the Arlington National Cemetery.
At the start of the war, Lee's nickname was "Granny Lee" because people thought he commanded like an old woman. Soon, however, he would be known for his leadership and military brilliance.
His horse, Traveller, became famous and is shown in many pictures and paintings of Robert E. Lee.
After the war Lee was no longer a United States citizen. President Gerald Ford restored his citizenship in 1975 after documents were found that showed Lee had taken an oath to remain loyal to the United States.
William Sherman
Williams original name was just Tecumseh Sherman.
Became head general of the US army once Ulysses Grant became president.
His memoirs have some of the greatest details of the Cival War and have the most details.
He was born on Febuary 8th, and when he died it was six days after his birthday. Not the greatest birthday celebration.
No one knows why, but his soldiers called him "uncle billy".
Known as the first true modern general.
On November 15, in perhaps the boldest act of the war, he led an army of sixty-two thousand men in two wings, with thirty-five thousand horses and twenty-five hundred wagons, on an overland march to Savannah--cutting himself off from his line of supply and sustaining his army on the land.