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Civil War
Battles and ppl
32
History
8th Grade
05/18/2010

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Jefferson Davis
Definition
  • President of Confed. States of America
  • Former Secretary of War
  • Sen. from Mississippi

 

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Sam Houston
Definition
  • Won Battle of San Jacinto
  • Gov. and Sen. from TX
  • Called Jeff Davis "Ambitious as Lucifer and cold as as lizard."
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Robert E. Lee
Definition
  • Officer in Mex. War
  • Lincoln offered him full commandof Union Troops
  • Wouldn't take part in invasion
  • Resigned from Union Army
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Robert Anderson
Definition
  • Instructor at West Point
  • Pro-slavery, from Kentucky, loyal to Union
  • Comm of union troops @ Ft. Sumter, surrendered
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PGT Beauregard
Definition
  • Robert Anderson's fav student
  • Vet of Mex War
  • Gave signal to open fire @ Ft. Sumter
  • Designed Confed flag
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Irvin McDowell
Definition
  • Commander of Union troops @ Bull Run
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Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson
Definition
  • Saved Confeds at Bull Run
  • "Stonewall"- stayed put like a wall in battle
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Ulysses S. Grant
Definition
  • Union leader @ Ft. Henry
  • Capt ft and opened TN riv. for Union movement
  • Pursued fleeing rebels to Ft. Donelson
  • Forced Confed to surrender w/ no terms
  • Won Shiloh and Pittsburg Landing
  • Led Battle of Vicksburg
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George McClellan
Definition
  • Good organizer, but too cautious
  • Didn't like Lincoln, complained
  • Ctiizens like him, but Lincoln had no better
  • Led Peninsula campaign, then Lincoln replaced him
  • Came back for Antietam
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Ambrose Burnside
Definition
  • Replace McClellan
  • General at Battle of Fredericksburg
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Joseph Hooker
Definition
  • Replaced Burnside
  • Led Union at Chancellorsville
  • Lincoln replaced him with Meade because he didnt want to attack Lee's army at Gettysburg
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George Meade
Definition
  • Led Union army at Gettysburg

 

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Ft. Sumter
Definition
  • Confederate Victory
  • Lincoln ordered for Ft. Sumter to be resupplied
  • After 30 hrs, Confeds capt. Ft. Sumter

 

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1st Bull Run/Manassas
Definition
  • Confed Victory
  • Both armies unprepared
  • Thomas Jackson saved day for Confeds
  • Union fled to Washington
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Monitor vs. Merrimack
Definition
  • No win
  • Two ironclads fought, no one won
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Ft. Henry and Ft. Donelson
Definition
  • Union Victory
  • Grant captured Ft. Henry and opened TN river
  • a/b 2500 Confeds fled before surrender
  • Grant herded fleeing rebels to Ft. Donelson
  • Made them surrender w/ no terms
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Shiloh/Pittsburg Landing
Definition
  • Union Victory
  • Buell's army arrived in riverboats
  • Union got new troops
  • Bloodiest battle in hist. till that point
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2nd Bull Run/Manassas
Definition
  • Confed Victory
  • EPIC FAIL. Pope FAILS.
  • Lincoln reinstated McClellan
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Antietam
Definition
  • Union Victory
  • Lee invaded Washington D.C.
  • McClellan found Lee's battle plans wrapped around cigars
  • Did nothing
  • Lee's troops fled, McClellan didn't follow
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Battle of Fredericksburg
Definition
  • Confed Victory
  • Union tried to capture Richmond. Failed.

 

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Chancellorsville
Definition
  • Confed Victory
  • Lee attacked Hooker
  • Hooker had just rebuilt his army, was unprepared
  • Lee lost many, including "Stonewall" Jackson
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Vicksburg
Definition
  • Union Victory
  • From May 19-July 4 1863
  • Grant led Union troops
  • Battle brought MS river to Union; Anaconda Plan
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Gettysburg: Day One
Definition
  • Gen Buford's Cavalry held off Confeds
  • Gen John F. Reynolds came later to help him, but he died
  • Union settled on Culp's Hill, Cemetery Hill, and Little Round Top
  • Confeds won this day
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Gettysburg: Day Two
Definition
  • Union made fish hook pattern from Culp's Hill to Cemetery Ridge to Little Round Top
  • 20th Maine, led by Joshua Chamberlain saved Union at Little Round Top
  • Confeds almost capt. Culp's Hill
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Gettysburg: Day 3
Definition
  • Pickett's men attacked the union on Cemetery Ridge
  • Confeds lost 10,000 men here
  • Union Victory in overall battle
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Border States
Definition
  • Confederate border states: AK, TN, NC, VA
  • Union Border States: KY, MO, WV, DL, MD
  • Border states=slave states
  • Confed border states: joined after Ft. Sumter, April 1861

 

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Emancipation Proclamation
Definition
  • Lincoln issued Proclamation
  • Abolished slavery in Confed. States of America
  • Cut off resources for South, b/c slaves provided most of it
  • Prevented Europe from aiding South
  • added more to Union army
  • Though Lincoln could not force slaveholders to give up slaves, he hoped slaves would run away
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Sates' Rights
Definition
  • Confederates argued that they volunatirly entered Union
  • thought Const. was contract for ind. states
  • They thought that since the Union had gone against the contract by not passing the Fug. Slave Act and by denying them equal rights in territories that them seceding was justified
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North Advantages/South Disadvantages
Definition
  • Union controlled Navy, so South had no Navy
  • Union had superior banking system (loans for war)
  • North had much larger pop. than South
  • Lincoln led a superior government, whereas the belief in states' rights prohibited a strong central gov for South
  • North had factories to produce war Materials, South had fewer factories
  • North had many railroads, South didn't
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South Advantages/North Disadvantages
Definition
  • South was fighting a defensive war, so they had hope that the North would give up
  • Superior leadership; officers trained @ West Point
  • South was fighting on Home turf, North had to invade large area w/ hostile ppl
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13th Amendment
Definition
  • 1864, Repub Congressional leders prepared amendment to abolish slavery
  • ratified in 1865
  • Truly freed enslaved African Americans

 

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Anaconda Plan
Definition
  • Naval Blockade against South
  • Gain control of MS riv and split CSA
  • Capt. Richmond, VA (CSA cap.)
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