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1
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Confederate General from Virginia, received offer from Winfield Scott to command Unions troops, but stayed true to his region

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Robert E. Lee

2
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Nickname for peace democrats because they opposed war and called for reunited the states through negotiation.

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Copperheads

3
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man from Virginia, sent to Great Britain for the confederacy to negotiate

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James Mason

4
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man from Lousianna, sent to France for the confederacy to negotiate

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John Slidell

5
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British ship carrying Mason and Slidell being intercepted by the Union

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Trent Affair

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Winfield Scotts plan to win war, Union blockades conferderate ports and send gunboats down the Mississippi to split Confederacy in half

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Anaconda Plan

7
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Confederate reinforcement leader, went on to become one of the most effective commanders in the Confederate Army

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“Stonewall” Jackson

8
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leader of Union Navy, after capturing New Orleans he was named hero.

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David G. Farragut

9
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Union General,seized Fort Henry and Fort Donelson, led Battle of Shiloh

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Ulysses S. Grant

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Union general, cautious and unwilling to attack,Battle of Antietam crucial victory for the Union

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George B. McClellan

11
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issued by Abraham Lincoln after Battle of Antietam, freeing all enslaved person in states still in rebellion

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Emancipation Proclamation

12
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One of the first African American regiments organized in the North, fought valiantly at Fort Wagner near Charleston Harbor

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54th Massachusetts

13
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First female physician of the United States

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Elizabeth Blackwell

14
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Elizabeth Blackwell’s work led to this, an organization that proved medical assistance and supplies to army camps and hospitals.

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United States Sanitary Commission

15
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Nursed soldiers on the battlefield

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Clara Barton

16
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Union general that replaced McClellan, led battle of Fredericksburg

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Ambrose Burnsides

17
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Union general that replaced Burnsides, was attacked by Lee in dense woods known as the Wilderness, near Chancellorsville, Virginia

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Joseph Hooker

18
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Union general that replaced Hooker, fought at Battle of Gettysburg

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George Meade

19
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under command of general George E. Pickett, confederacy, where 7,000 casulaties happened in less than half an hour of fighting

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Pickett’s Charge

20
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General that Grant ordered to attack Confederate positions on the north end of the ridge, Missionary Ridge

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William Tecumseh Sherman

21
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Union general of attempted distraction, calvary raid north and west of Richmond

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Philip Sheridan

22
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nickname for when shermans troops destroyed the rail lines and twisted them into snarls of steel

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Sherman neckties

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November 15, 1864, Shermans troops cute a path through Georgia, while ransacking houses, burning crops and killing cattle, at the end they had reached the coast and seized the city of Savannah

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March to the Sea

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amendment thatbanned slavery in the United States

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Thirteenth Amendment

25
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where Lee surrendered to Grant on April 9th, 1865

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Appomattox Courthouse