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| first major battle of the Civil War fought in Virginia in 1861 |
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| During the Civil War, the government and armies of the South |
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| the bloodiest battle of the Civil War battle fought in Maryland in 1862 |
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| Emancipation Proclamation |
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| – Lincoln’s 1861 declaration freeing slaves in the Confederacy |
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| a system for requiring citizens to joined their country’s armed forces |
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| the right not to be held in prison without first being charged with a specific crime |
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| an 1863 Civil War battle in PA that ended a Confederate invasion of the North |
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| speech made by President Lincoln in 1863 after the battle of Gettysburg |
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| 54th Massachusetts Regiment |
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| African American unit in the Union army famous for attack on Fort Wagner near Charleston, South Carolina |
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| all-out war on the enemy’s ability to fight that affects civilians at home as well as soldiers in combat |
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| Virginia town that was the site of Confederate surrender in 1865 |
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