William McKinley was the last US President who was also a Civil War veteran. Except for Benjamin Harrison, all of the Presidents after Johnson and up to McKinley were veterans of that war. Harrison was able to hire someone else to take his place.
Abraham Lincoln was President of the United States (North) Jefferson Davis was President of the Confederate States (South)
Ulysses S. Grant was a famous Northern general during the Civil War who went on to become President of the United States.
Jefferson Davis served as President of the Confederate States throughout the Civil War.
Horace Greeley a post Civil War journalist who opposed having Grant run for President of the United States.
The election of Abraham Lincoln as a President of the United States in 1860 Indeed that happened before the outbreak of the Civil War.
Abraham Lincoln was President of the United States of America during the Civil War. Jefferson Davis wa President of the Confederate States of America during the Civil War.
Rutherford B. Hayes followed Grant as President of the United States.
Abraham Lincoln was president during the United States civil war
Abraham Lincoln was the 16th president of the United States. He was the president during the Civil War and also freed the slaves within the United States.
Abraham Lincoln was president during the US Civil War.
Abraham Lincoln
Lincoln
He was the 16th President of the United States.
Abraham Lincoln
The president of the United States is the commander of the military.
Abraham Lincoln was the President of the United States, or Union, during the US Civil War.
NOT Andrew Johnson