Civil War
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nwngeek212 on May 20, 2010
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Jefferson Davis | President of the Confederacy |
| Anaconda Plan | Blockade ports; Control Mississippi & split the South; Capture Richmond |
| Rifles | Accurate; long ranging; could inflict heavy casualties |
| Matthew Brady | Civil War Photographer |
| Clara Barton | volunteer who brought food, bandages, supplies to the woundedout on the battlefield; founder of American Red Cross |
| Merrimac & Monitor | an iron-clad vessel built by the Confederate forces in the hope of breaking the blockade imposed by the North; North tried to stop this vessel with their own |
| George McClellan | West Point Graduate & Mexican war veteran; leader of Eastern Union Army; very cautious & indecisive |
| Robert E. Lee | The leading general for the Confederacy; West Point Graduate; a genius strategist |
| First Bull Run | first battle; confederate victory |
| Second Bull Run | John Pope is attacked by Lee and Stonewall Jackson; confederate victory |
| Fort Henry | Union Victory; need to control rivers |
| Ford Donelson | Union Victory by Grant |
| Ulysses Grant | Union general during the Civil War who commanded generally in the West; later became General of Union Army |
| Shiloh | Grant vs. Albert Johnston; Union Victory with heavy losses |
| New Orleans | Captured by David Farragut; cut confederate supply routes |
| David Farragut | Naval commander at the battle of New Orleans |
| Fort Sumter | Start of Civil war; Confederacy begins to take southern union forts starting with this one |
| Richmond | Capital of Confederacy; capturing it was third part of anaconda plan; Jefferson Davis fled from here to run the government on a train |
| Fredericksburg | Burnsides attacks Lee; confederate victory |
| Chancellorsville | Robert E. Lee defeats "Fighting Joe" Hooker; Stonewall Jackson dies from friendly fire |
| Gettysburg | 3 day battle; Huge victory for the Union; bloodiest battle of Civil War |
| Pickett's Charge | George Pickett lead his 15,000 men against the union; 6000 were dead in 15 minutes |
| Gettysburg Address | Main speaker was Edward Everett, spoke for 2 hrs; Lincoln's speech was 2 minutes, showed Lincoln's view of the Union |
| Antietam Creek | defensive war; Lee wants to bring war to north; bloodiest single day of war; draw |
| Special Order #191 | Lee's Battle plan is leaked into hands of McClellan; McClellan hesitates, and is later fired for this |
| William Tecumseh Sherman | Union General; Father of Total War; captured atlanta |
| Sherman's March | Atlanta to Savannah; destroyed everything in the army's path |
| Vicksburg | Last confederate outpost on Mississippi River; Grant succeeded after 2 years of being repelled |
| Appomattox | Lee surrenders; Grant provides generous terms |
| Petersburg | Grant & Sherman put this place under siege for ten months |
| Thomas Jackson | Robert E. Lee's right hand man; also known as Stonewall |
| Abraham Lincoln | Leader of the Union; Issues Emancipation Proclamation |
| Emancipation Proclamation | Freed all slaves (but Lincoln had no control over south); changed the goal of war to slavery; ended confederate chance for foreign aid |
| Habeas Corpus | Lincoln suspends this, creates precedent for doing so in a war to take northern Confederacy supporters into jail |
| Conscription | a draft issued by the south, and later the north |
| NYC Draft Riot | Mostly Irish who opposed the draft; largest incident in draft violence |
| Copperheads | Northern democrats who advocated peace in response to the Emancipation Proclamation |
| Presidential Election of 1864 | McClellan vs. Lincoln; Lincoln had a dream that he wouldn't win, but due to many military victories, Lincoln won |
| Radical Republicans | Harsher Reconstruction Plan (John Frémont was candidate) |
| Andrew Johnson | Lincoln's running mate; he was chosen to show how much Lincoln cared for Union |
| Trent Affair | Union captured ship with two Confederate diplomats; British are angry, as it was their ship; Confederacy was trying to form an alliance with Great Britain |
| 54th Massachusetts Regiment | one of the first African American Regiment organized in the North; sent to fight at Ft. Wagner |
| John Pope | replaces McClellan before the second battle of bull run |
| Irwin McDowell | led 30,000 troops to capture Richmond |
| Winfield Scott | advocated the Anaconda plan and disagreed with Irwin McDowell |
| Anand Dyavanapalli | the creator of this study guide |
| A. H. Foote | flag officer who aided gunboats at Fort Donelson; was shot in the foot |
| Albert Johnston | Confederate general at the battle of Shiloh |
| Ambrose Burnsides | Northern Commander who was known for his foolish attack on Marye's Heights at Fredericksburg; allows Lee to dig in for ten days |
| Joseph Hooker | United States general in the Union Army who was defeated at Chancellorsville by Robert E. Lee; known for his acceptance of certain "services" by lonely women |
| George Meade | Commanded the Union Army of the Potomac at Gettysburg |
| A.P. Hill | fought against Buford on the first day of Gettysburg |
| John Buford | commander of the Union Calvary at Gettysburg, slowed down confederates; held high ground at cemetery ridge |
| James Longstreet | Lee's second man in command after the death of Stonewall Jackson; fought at the the battle for Little Round Top |
| Edward Everett | made a two-hour speech; was the principal spokesman at the Gettysburg Address |
| Port Hudson | Confederate fort on the Mississippi River that was the site of the longest siege of the Civil War; fell to Union forces in July 1863 |
| Bounty Jumping | Capturing deserters to bring them back to their draft sites |
| John Mason | confederate diplomat aboard the Trent |
| John Slidell | A diplomat sent by Polk to buy California, New Mexico, and Texas from the Mexicans; was a confederate diplomat aboard the Trent |
| Robert Gould Shaw | Union commander of the first African American volunteer regiment in 1863 |
| John Rawlins | African-American gravedigger who was promoted to the rank of Sergeant Major (Glory) |
| Cabot Forbes | Robert Shaw's second in command (Glory) |
| Thomas Searles | Free, educated African-American; Robert Shaw's childhood friend; first to volunteer for the 54th Massachusetts Regiment (Glory) |
| Silas Trip | escaped African-American slave; joined the volunteer 54th Massachusetts Regiment (Glory) |
| Jupiter Sharts | An eccentric, stuttering young African-American man who volunteers for the 54th Massachusetts Regiment (Glory) |
| Mulcahy | The Irish Baron Von Steuben of the 54th Massachusetts Regiment (Glory) |
| James Montgomery | commander under whom Shaw and his black regiment to plunder and destroy civilian property (Glory) |
| Fort Wagner | site of two American Civil War battles; the first major American military unit made up of black soldiers (Glory) |
| Joshua Chamberlain | Union officer that ordered a bayonet charge and held Little Round Top (Gettysburg) |
| Buster Kilrain | Sergeant in the Battle of Gettysburg (Gettysburg) |
| Lewis Armistead | Confederate general that was mortally wounded at Pickett's Charge; friend of Hancock (Gettysburg) |
| James Kemper | Confederate General at the Battle of Gettysburg (Gettysburg) |
| Winfield Scott Hancock | Fought in the campaigns of the Army of the Potomac, Battle of Gettysburg, he contributed greatly to the Union effort, and was seriously wounded; Frend of Armistead (Gettysburg) |
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