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| commander of Fort Sumter when Lincoln "forced" South to fire first shot of war at Fort Sumter on April 12, 1861 |
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| slave-holding states still in the Union, on border of the Confederacy (Delaware, Kentucky, Maryland, and Missouri) |
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| military in control; citizens rights/freedoms suspended |
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| North strategy to control everywhere around the South so they "suffocate" |
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| use of cotton to receive foreign aid and recognition of independence |
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| General Thomas Jackson's nickname; Southern general during Civil War at the First Battle of Bull Run |
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| battle at the bottom of the river Bull Run; North thought it would be an easy win, but South won; beginning of a LONG war |
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| those killed, wounded, or MIA |
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| replaces McDowell as Northern general; tentative Union general |
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| Union general at the Battle of Shiloh |
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| battle at Pittsburg Landing, Tennessee in which the Union won when Buell's troops showed up on the next morning; April 6, 1862 |
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| September 17, 1862; bloodiest single-day battle of the Civil War; McClellan had the chance to destroy Confederate army, but did not. |
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| Emancipation Proclamation |
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| document to free the slaves (even though no slaves were actually freed); given on January 1, 1863 |
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| act of freeing someone from slavery |
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| forced service in the military |
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| some members of the Democratic Party who opposed the war; compares them to the poisonous snake |
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| right to a trial charged with a crime if arrested |
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| cared for wounded on the battlefield; founded the American Red Cross |
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| with the threat of war with Britain, Lincoln released Mason and Slidell to continue on their journey to Europe after Wilkes intercepted their ship and took them captive |
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| March 28, 1862; Confederates win, though they have to retreat because their supplies were destroyed |
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| March 1862 in Arkansas; biggest battle west of Mississippi; Union won |
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| leader of Native American army in the Battle of Pea Ridge; fought for Confederacy; promoted to general |
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| Battle of Chancellorsville |
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| May 2, 1863; Stonewall Jackson attacked Union troops, who were nearly destroyed; fighting went for 3 days |
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| replaced Hooker as Union general for the Battle of Gettysburg |
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| 3-day battle at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania in July 1863 |
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| most trusted general of the Confederacy after death of Jackson |
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| march of 15,000 soldiers toward Union troops; less than half returned to Confederate lines |
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| Confederate win in northwest Georgia in September 1863 |
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| replaced Ulysses S. Grant as general when Grant was put in charge of all of the armies |
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| a 2-day fight b/w Lee and Grant so intense that the forest caught on fire from shooting; May of 1863 in VA |
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| an 11-day fight b/w Lee and Grant where [32,000 casualties of Union and 18,00 of Confederacy from May 5-May 12, 1864] |
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| fight in early June b/w Lee and Grant; after the first 30 minutes, 7,000 casualties; "it was murder"; first to get railroad, then attack against city (Petersburg) |
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| Confederate general Hood attacked Union forces on July 22 against Union general Sherman |
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| amendment to finally end slavery passed on January 31, 1865; part of Constitution in December 1865 |
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