Team of Rivals

Chapter 25

“Atlanta Is Ours”

Key Figures in the Chapter

President Lincoln

Mary Todd Lincoln

& Tad Lincoln

General Ulysses S. Grant

Salmon P. Chase

Served as U.S. senator from Ohio and the governor of Ohio; as U.S. Treasury Secretary under President Lincoln; and as Chief Justice of the U.S.

Kate Chase -SpragueSolman Chase’s daughter.

Wife of Rhode Island Governor William Sprague.

William P. Fessenden

Served in the United States House of Representatives and Senate before becoming Secretary of the Treasury under President Lincoln during the American Civil War.

President Lincoln appointed Fessenden United States Secretary of the Treasury upon Salmon Chase's resignation.

Montgomery Blair

A loyal member of the Cabinet of Abraham Lincoln during the American Civil War. Blair was hot-tempered, and in 1864 he launched an all-out attack against Republican liberals.

Elizabeth BlairShe was the younger sister of Montgomery Blair. She wrote hundreds of letters describing the events of the times.

Frederick Douglass

An American social reformer, orator, writer, and statesman.

William Henry Seward&

Edwin M. Stanton

John Charles Frémontthe first presidential candidate of a major party to run on a platform opposing slavery.

(Republican Party)

George B. McClellan

was a major general during the American Civil War.

Confederate Generals

Jubal Anderson Early

John C. Breckinridge