Category
page 1People of the Reconstruction era
Ulysses S. Grant
Ulysses S. Grant was the 18th president of the United States, serving from 1869 to 1877. He previously led the Union Army to victory in the American Civil War in 1865 as commanding general.
Andrew Johnson
President of the United States from 1865 to 1869
Robert E. Lee
Confederate States general (1807–1870)
William Tecumseh Sherman
United States Army general (1820–1891)
Philip Sheridan
United States Army general (1831-1888)

Charles Sumner
American abolitionist and statesman (1811–1874)
Thaddeus Stevens
American statesman (1792–1868)
Rebecca Lee Crumpler
American physician (1831 - 1895)
George Henry Williams
American Lawyer, judge and politician, Oregon (1823-1910)
Benjamin Tillman
American politician (1847–1918)
Benjamin Wade
American lawyer and politician (1800–1878)
Jordan Anderson
Freed slave (1825-1907)
Robert Dale Owen
United States politician (1801–1877)
George W. McCrary
American politician (1835–1890)
Henry Laurens Dawes
American politician (1816–1903)
Joseph Rainey
politician (1832-1887)
Henry Winter Davis
American politician (1817–1865)
Lyman Trumbull
American politician (1813–1896)
William D. Kelley
American politician (1814-1890)
Alexander Hugh Holmes Stuart
American politician (1807-1891)

Thomas A. Scott
American railroad executive and businessperson
Jonathan Jasper Wright
American judge (1840–1885)
Jonathan Clarkson Gibbs
American state official (1821-1874)