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Civil War

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Jefferson Davis
President of the Confederate States of America prior to and during the Civil War.
Robert E. Lee
Confederate general who had opposed secession but did not believe the Union should be held together by force
George B. McClellan
A general for northern command of the Army of the Potomac in 1861; nicknamed "Tardy George" because of his failure to move troops to Richmond; lost battle vs. General Lee near the Chesapeake Bay; Lincoln fired him twice.
Ulysses S. Grant
an American general and the eighteenth President of the United States (1869-1877). He achieved international fame as the leading Union general in the American Civil War.
William Tecumseh Sherman
Union General who destroyed South during "march to the sea" from Atlanta to Savannah, example of total war
Clara Barton
Nurse during the Civil War; founder of the American Red Cross
Lincoln's main goal
Started as a desire To preserve the Union (keep or rejoin the seceding states), and then it shifted to Emancipation. form preservation to moral crusade.
Anaconda Plan
Union war plan by Winfield Scott, called for blockade of southern coast, capture of Richmond, capture Mississippi R, and to take an army through heart of south
Richmond
Capital of the Confederacy
Border States
in the civil war the states between the north and the south: delaware, mayland, kentucky, and missouri
Lee's Invasion of Maryland
• Wants to incite rebellion in already divided state
• Feels that if he can win a battle on northern soil, they can win the war
The Emancipation Proclamation
Issued by Abraham Lincoln on September 22, 1862 it declared that all slaves in the confederate states would be free
Monitor vs. Merrimack
monitor was a union ironclad and Merrimack was confederate, and it was significant because it signaled a new age of warfare with iron plated ships
War of Attrition
A war based on wearing the other side down by constant attacks and heavy losses (north to south)
The First Battle of Bull Run
First "real" battle of the Civil War, it was expected by Union officials to be short but ended up a Confederate victory. Made people realize it was going to be long and costly
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