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The Civil War

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Deep South cotton states
first seven states to secede by February 1861
Jefferson Davis
President of the Confederate States of America
Abraham Lincoln
16th president of the U.S. ; elected 1860, inaugurated 1861
Fort Sumter
S Carolina fort, bombarded by Confederates: beginning of Civil War
The Confederacy
group of 11 Southern states that seceded from US, beginning in 1860.
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Bull Run
creek in Virginia: two important battles of the Civil War fought there
George B. Mcclellan
Union general in the American Civil War; appointed by Lincoln in 1861
General War Order No. 1
1862; all US naval and land forces to begin general advance on Confederacy
Fort Henry
Confederate fort in northwest Tennessee, captured by Union 1862
Fort Donelson
Confederate fort in northwest Tennessee captured by Union forces; 1862
Unconditional Surrender
surrender in which no guarantees are given to the surrendering party
Ulysses S. Grant
18th US President (1869–1877) prominent union military commander
Merrimac
warship Confederates converted into an ironclad
Shiloh
battle killed more men than in all previous American wars combined
Seven Pines
locality in Virginia, near Richmond: battle 1862
Joseph E. Johnston
Confederate general in the U.S. Civil War, replaced by Robert E. Lee
Robert E. Lee
US soldier and educator: Confederate general in the American Civil War
Antietam
1862 battle; single bloodiest day: 26,000 men dead, wounded, or missing
Emancipation Proclamation
proclamation issued by President Lincoln freeing the slaves
Ambrose E. Burnside
Union general in the American Civil War
Fredericksburg
city in Virginia: scene of a Confederate victory 1862
Joseph Hooker
known as "Fighting Joe"; Union general in the U.S. Civil War
Vicksburg
Mississippi city: important Civil War siege and Confederate surrender 1863
draft
selection from the general body of the people for military service
Chancellorsville
village in Virginia: site of a Confederate victory 1863
Gettysburg
Pennsylvania: Confederate forces defeated; crucial battle fought: July 1
Chickamauga
creek in Georgia: scene of a Confederate victory 1863
Chattanooga
city in Tennessee, on the Tennessee River: Civil War battle 1863; 169,565
William T. Sherman
Union general in the Civil War
Savannah
E Georgia; endpoint of 300 mile path of destruction by general Sherman
Petersburg
A city in Virginia: besieged by Union forces 1864.
Richmond
capital of the Confederacy 1861; burned by Union army in 1865
Appomattox
central Virginia town: Lee surrendered to Grant April 9, 1865, ending war
assassination
murder premeditatedly; Lincoln assassinated by John Wilkes Booth

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