Abraham Lincoln was president of the North.
Jefferson Davis was President of the South.
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Ulysses Grant became famous from the Civil War and was later elected President for two terms.
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Lincoln. He was the 16th President and was elected in 1860.
they were two generals during the civil war
Hannibal Hamlin was Lincoln's first term Vice President replaced in 1864 by Andrew Johnson. So in fact he had two VP's during the Civil War.
He was president during that time and couldn't bare to see his country in two parts
Arkansas had two capitals during the Civil War. The capital was Little Rock, but during the Civil War, the Confederate government made Hot Springs the capital also.
He was President of the Confederacy. He had hoped to be General-in-Chief instead, and tried to combine the two roles. He was out of his depth in both, not able to control either his cabinet or his Generals.
Rutherford B. Hayes during the Civil War. (I thought it was Washington, but he had only two.)
President Woodrow Wilson was the president during World War 1. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt was the president during World War 2 until he died near the end of the war. President Harry S. Truman was president through the end of the war and during the Korean War.
They saw it as a war between two sovereign nations.