Confederate Cavalry General Jeb Stuart is one of those individuals who does not survive the Civil War, having been killed at the Battle of Yellow Tavern, Virginia

 

Confederate Cavalry General Nathan Bedford Forrest goes on to help found the Klu Klux Klan

Union General Ulysses S. Grant Goes on to be elected President of the United States

Union General Rutherford B. Hayes is elected President after Grant

After Hayes, ex-Union General James A. Garfield is elected President, but becomes the second President to be assassinated

Abraham Lincoln’s eldest son, Robert Todd Lincoln, goes on to become Secretary of War, Ambassador to Great Britain, and head of the Pullman railroad car company. He was present at the assassination of his father as well as the assassination of Presidents James A. Garfield and William McKinley.

Despite the Thirteenth Amendment freeing the former black slaves and the promises of Reconstruction, a back-lash from the South, Jim Crowe laws, and continued segregation continue to deprive African-Americans of their civil rights for a hundred more years

Abolitionist Frederick Douglass continues to be one of the leading spokesmen for the rights of African-Americans

Julia Ward Howe, author of the song Battle Hymn of the Republic, continues to advocate for women’s suffrage

The 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, one of the Reconstruction Amendments adopted on July 9, 1868, guarantees “all citizens” no whatever what their race due process and equal protection under the law. As such, one of the positive results of the Civil War was the establishment of the basic of all the civil rights laws we have today prohibiting discrimination on the basis of race, color, creed, sex, or disability.