| Term | Definition |
|---|
| taxes in kind | 1/10 of products (hogs, corn, etc.) sent to the confederacy |
| Monitor | a Union ironclad |
| Merrimac | a Confederate ironclad |
| Matthew Brady | photographer of Civil War |
| Irvin McDowell | Union General |
| Thomas Jackson | nicknamed "Stonewall Jackson"; confederate leader |
| Battle of Bull Run | called Manassas; north realized they weren't ready to fight; south became overconfident |
| George B. McClellan | placed in charge of all federal troops by Lincoln during battle of Bull Run |
| Second Battle of Bull Run | Manassas Junction; 2 day fight;high tide of Confederacy |
| blockade runners | ships with low profiles, painted dull gray to blend into sea |
| Ulysses S. Grant | General of Union army; gained control of the Mississippi River |
| David Glasgow Farragut | Union naval officer; defeated New Orleans |
| Vicksburg | last Confederate stronghold on the Miss. River;Grant trapped the soldiers in Vicksburg by cutting off their supply lines |
| Antietam | stalemate; results: Britain stayed out of the war; Emancipation Proclamation |
| Chancellorsville | battle where a Confederate guard wounded Stonewall Jackson who later died |
| Gettysburg | General Lee led the confederacy; 3 day battle;south was defeated |
| William T. Sherman | took charge of the Union forces after Grant |
| Emancipation Proclamation | issued by Lincoln to free slaves |
| Philip Sheridan | sent by Grant to close down Shenandoah Valley; destroyed Lee's army |
| bummers | Confederate and Union deserters |
| March to the Sea | Sherman's march to Savannah which cut off confederate supplies received by the sea |
| Andrew Johnson | Lincoln's running mate |
| Appomattox | where Lee and his men layed down their weapons (surrendered) |
| John Wilkes Booth | shot and killed Lincolnon April 14, 1865 at Ford's Theater |
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