Henry Alexander Wise (December 3, 1806 - September 12, 1876) was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Virginia's 8th congressional district, the 6th U.S. Minister to Brazil, and the 33rd Governor of Virginia directly preceeding the American Civil War. During the war, he was comissioned as a Brigadier General in the Confederate Army. Andrew Jackson (March 15, 1767 - June 8, 1845) was the 7th President of the United States of America. Though he would die more than a decade before the start of the Civil War, Jackson's Nullification Proclamation of December 10, 1832, which made it illegal for states or municipalities to nullify federal laws, is attributed to having contributed to the tension between democrats and republicans, leading further to the secession of numerous southern states from the original Union. Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard (May 28, 1818 - February 20, 1893) was a General in the Confederate Army. He took an active role in the Western Theater of the war. Jefferson Davis (June 3, 1808 - December 6, 1889) was the first and only President of the Confederate States of America. Louis Trezevant Wigfall (April 21, 1816 - February 18, 1874) was a Democrat U.S. Senator from Texas. He seceeded to the Confederacy, served as a Brigadier General in the Confederate Army, and later served as a Confederate States Senator from Texas. John Buchanan Floyd (June 1, 1806 - August 26, 1863) was the 31st Governor of Virginia, and later the United States Secretary of War. He seceeded from the Union and became a Brigadier General in the Confederate Army.
