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| AKA Manassas Junction; Union forces attack Confed ones here, but Confeds send reinforcements which confuse the Unionists & they run away; Confeds get a "military picnic" out of the Unionists' lunches & their egos get hella inflated which screw them over later | ||
| Other name for Bull Run | ||
| @ Manassas Junction this fool gets his nickname because he led the Confed forces so well they stood like a stone wall | ||
| General who took over the Army of the Potomac in 1861; grad of West Point who took every milit. Conquest cautiously, thought Confeds outnumbered him | ||
| Intelligence agency that was reporting to McClellan falsely that the Confeds outnumbered him | ||
| Military conquest taken on by McClellan @ the base of a narrow peninsula formed by the convergence of the James & York rivers; Union advanced on Confed capital | ||
| Confederate captain who led forces against McClellan's while Mac was chasing after Stonewall -- completely encircled McClellan's stalled forces near Richmond | ||
| Confed counterattack led by Lee in June/July 1862; the Confeds pushed McClellan back to the sea & the Peninsula Campaign became a failure, leading to the dismissal of McClellan | ||
| Risky business of smuggling past the blockade put on the Confederacy by the Union; yielded 700% profits, but was wayyyy risky | ||
| West Indian port that became the leading rendezvous point for blockade runners | ||
| Former wooden US warship that got in the hands of the Confeds; they plated that **** w/ iron railroad rails & renamed it | ||
| What above ship became renamed to; destroyed 2 Union ships in the Chesapeake Bay; was eventually destroyed to keep it from getting in the hands of Unionists | ||
| Tiny Union ironclad built in 100 days to help fend off the Merrimack in Chesapeake Bay; proves wooden ships=obsolete | ||
| General who assumed command of the Union army after McClellan, led 2nd battle of bull run | ||
| Lee moved northward & in August 1862 issued a beating to Pope & his Union army, & then thrust his way into MD | ||
| after McClellan resumed control of Union army, "Little Mac"'s army men found Lee's plans on the floor & halted Lee in Sept 1862. Most decisive engagement in world history, EU nations who were teetering on whether or not to recognize Confeds finally saw Union pwr & sided w/ them; it was the non-loss that Lincoln needed to launch the Emancipation Proc | ||
| Crazy abolitionist from a chapter or two ago that condemned Lincoln as a "first-rate second-rate man" for not issuing the Emancipation sooner | ||
| On Jan 1 1863, Lincoln declared that the slaves in the Confed were forever free (doesn't pertain to slaves in Border States or conquered So. Areas...) | ||
| Amendment passed 8mos after the end of the Civil War officially putting a ban on slavery | ||
| Editor of the NY Tribune who was staunchly antislavery & loved Lincoln's proclamation | ||
| Ex-prez who felt that emancipation shouldn't be "inflicted" on slavery | ||
| Ex-slave who was responsible for raising 2 MA regiments composed entirely of black men | ||
| Fort in MI where a bunch of blacks were slaughtered after their surrender | ||
| Highest military award; blacks in the Civil War attained about 22 of these; Chamberlain got this for his bravery at Gettysburg | ||
| General who took over the Army of the Potomac after McClellan's victory @ Antietam (his ornate side-whiskers became known as sideburns) | ||
| City in VA where Burnside attacked Lee's forces, 10,000 No. forces were slaughtered here in a crushing defeat | ||
| Man who took over Burnside & fought Jackson's Confed forces @ Chancellorsville, VA where he was badly beaten but not crushed | ||
| Burnside gave ctrl to Hooker, and confeds. routed Union troops, more Union bloodbath. Stonewall Jackson killed by friendly fire, tho | ||
| Lee decides to go invade PA in the north to invade DC from north - decisive blow. Both sides inadvertently meet here | ||
| Union General who was to take over for Hooker; led forces @ Gettysburg, PA against Lee who was trying to cut thru PA; he had 92,000 vs. Lee's 76,000 | ||
| General of Confed army whose futile charge broke the back of the Confed attack/cause | ||
| What Pickett's charge was called, marked the highest point of Confed movement, they were to never get past PA | ||
| sth's assault @ Gettysburg , failed, turned battle + war | ||
| The 2h speech Lincoln gave while dedicating the cemetery @ Gettysburg, PA | ||
| Confed fort on the TN River, taken by Grant | ||
| Confed fort on the Cumberland River, taken by Grant | ||
| General who gained his start by capturing Forts Henry & Donelson; given command of Union forces attacking Vicksburg, the Confed's lifeline to We. Supplies | ||
| Location of a gory battle between Confed & Union forces [led by Grant] where the Union was prevented from getting Corinth, MI | ||
| Flotilla commanded by this guy helped capture the Confed's New Orleans | ||
| Last Southern bastion on the Mississippi that fell 5 days after Vicksburg | ||
| Grant won here in TN, so state was now clear and GA could be invaded | ||
| Union general entrusted w/ GA's conquest; he captured & burned Atlanta in 1864; was a pioneer practitioner of "total war" | ||
| chimneys were all that was left standing in ravaged south | ||
| Nth troops looted, destroyed RRs, took supplies, waged war on morale at ppl's homes | ||
| Overambitious Secretary of the Treasury who had a faction vying for his succession of Lincoln | ||
| A committee in Congress created in late 1861 that was comprised mainly of radical Republicans who pressed Lincoln for emancipation | ||
| Gifted leader of Northern Democrats who died seven weeks after the war began of typhoid | ||
| Northern Democratic faction who supported Lincoln's administration | ||
| Northern Democratic faction who did NOT support Lincoln | ||
| Radical Democrats who openly attacked the draft, hated that Lincoln was fighting a "Nigger War" & had political strength in OH, IN, and IL | ||
| Copperhead Congressman from OH who publicly demanded an end to the wicked war; convicted by a military tribunal for being treasonous & banished to the Confederacy where he escaped to CN & ran for governor of OH from foreign lines | ||
| The above guy's plight inspired this man to create a character known as "Nolan" in his The Man Without a Country | ||
| The Republicans cleverly united w/ War Democrats to create this party, temporarily passing the Repub. Party out of existence | ||
| Lincoln's 1864 running mate who was a War Democrat from TN who ran w/ Lincoln to bolster the War Democrat votes from Borders | ||
| 1864 candidate for presidency from the Copperhead/Peace Democrat faction; he ended up getting 45% of the pop vote but got creamed in the electoral | ||
| Union officer, decimated VA's Shenandoah Valley | ||
| Voting bloc of returned Union soldiers and veterans that helped propel Lincoln to his reelection | ||
| Fighting campaign fought by Grant against Lee in the wilderness of VA in May/Jun 1864 | ||
| Impregnable Confed position that Grant issued a risky assault n in June of 1864; in a few minutes, about 7000 men were killed/wounded | ||
| Location in VA where, after Union forces captured Richmond, Grant & Lee met to end the war; Lee granted generous surrender | ||
| Tattered Southern veterans who wept as their commander (Lee) surrendered & their cause was shattered | ||
| On April 14, 1865 (Good Friday) this crazed, pro-southern actor, shot Lincoln in the head & assassinated his ass in the Ford's Theatre | ||
| Where Lincoln was assassinated | ||
| GB became a true political democracy after it passed this bill, just 2 years after the Civil War in the US ended | ||
| Union's war plans to defeat the Confed. rebels; want to blockade the Confed posts, cut Confed in half by taking control of MI R. to stop supplies, want to capture Richmond, want to liberate slaves to undermine their economy, & Grant's addn: engage Confeds strength and grind it into submission | ||
| Union troops moved to Richmond along narrow peninsula by water w/ 100K men;i. McClellan captured Yorktown, neared Richmond, had to wait b/c Lincoln diverted reinforcements to protect DC; dealt crushing counterattack w/ Seven Days' Battle | ||
| 3-day battle in 1863 that marked a turning point of the Civil War; Lee & his army have to retreat | ||
| July 4, 1863 Grant wins decisive victory in MI bringing Grant to Lincoln's attn as a possible General; was a back-to-back victory w/ Gettysburg; 6wk siege that captured MI R. | ||
| The type of warfare Grant took on, using his numbers against Lee; thought Confeds would run out of bullets before he would run out of men | ||
| where educated, wealthy people were trained to be officers | ||
| Regiment composed entirely of black soldiers about 1500-3000 men led by Colonel Shaw; sent to assault Fort Wagner | ||
| Led 54th Massachusetts Regiment; regiment composed entirely of black soldiers about 1500-3000 | ||
| Shaw's family builds a memorial about the thousand+ men that died | ||
| commanded by Chamberlain; Last regiment on union line, told not to retreat or surrender; They push confeds back but run out of ammo, so they do a bayonet charge | ||
| commanded 20th Regiment of Maine | ||
| Doctor who treated Booth's broknen leg, charged as a conspirator & convicted; his grandson Richard tried to get his name cleared | ||
| Sec of State who was stabbed on the same day that Lincoln was assassinated; he was the 3rd in line for succession | ||
| VP of the country who was supposed to attend the play w/ Lincoln but fell ill | ||
| Frontal assault where Union soldiers rode into battle w/ names pinned on their back, within minutes thousands die | ||
| One of two significant forts that was still Northern controlled in the So. Post-secession; was in Charleston Harbor | ||
| Commander of the Union army who opposed keeping the So. In the Union if they were vehemently against it | ||
| The four states that seceded after the battle of Fort Sumter | ||
| Only states left that didn't secede: MO, KY, MD, DE, and WV | ||
| Border States - Only states left that didn't secede | ||
| Region where an antislavery war was extremely unpopular; consisted of So. OH, IN, and IL. | ||
| Name of the most populous Indian tribes in the Indian Territory: Cherokee, Creeks, Choctaws, Chickasaws, and Seminoles; they sided w/ confederacy | ||
| Five Civilized Tribes; they sided w/ confederacy; Name of the most populous Indian tribes in the Indian Territory | ||
| Indians who with union | ||
| Senator of KY who had 2 sons who became generals in the opposing armies of the Civil War | ||
| A first-rate general from VA who was offered command of the No. armies but when VA seceded he fought w/ them | ||
| Lee's chief lieutenant who was a gifted tactical theorist and master of speed/deception | ||
| The North's famous high-general who kicked a lot of ass | ||
| About a year and a half after the Civil War began, GB stores of cotton became depleted leading to a lot of layoffs | ||
| Two northern exports that became "king," because they were blessed w/ ideal agri conditions | ||
| GB mail steamer that was stopped by a Union warship north of Cuba | ||
| When the above steamer was stopped, the Union soldiers took out 2 confederate diplomats, pissing the **** out of GB | ||
| Unneutral building in GB of Confederate commerce-raiders like this vessel: the vessel escaped in 1862 to Portuguese Azores & took weapons from 2 Eng. Ships that followed it; eventually GB paid $15.5 million to US over arbitration | ||
| Destroyed the Alabama | ||
| American minister to GB, convinced them to buy the laird rams @ threat of going to war; Son and grandson of two former presidents, ambassador to GB & convinced GB to not recognize the Confed.; was considered for prez in 1872 | ||
| Two Confederate warships being constructed in GB that were designed to destroy Union wood ships that were blockading the So. | ||
| Commonwealth of GB that was est. in 1867 as a result of the US Civil War; | ||
| Emp of FR who sent armies to MX City in 1863 while US was busy w/ Civil War (violated Monroe Doctrine) | ||
| AU archduke that Napoleon III put in charge of MX; was eventually killed by firing squad in 1867 after US threatened to march So. | ||
| Gov of GA who was a belligerent states' rights advocate who wanted to secede from the secession and fight both sides | ||
| Pres. Of Confederacy who didn't enjoy personal popularity & there was talk of impeachment amongst displeased Confeds | ||
| Nickname given to Lincoln because he liked bending the rules to keep the union together | ||
| The right to know why you're being convicted was taken away by Lincoln to prosecute anti-Unionists, thereby ignoring this document | ||
| Required military duty; passed by Congress for the first time in 1863 | ||
| Tariff passed in 1861 that increased existing duties from 5 to 10% | ||
| Money that the Treasury of US issued totaling near $450 million @ face value; worth only $0.39 on the gold dollar @ one point | ||
| Private banking house that the Treasury was forced to market its bonds thru; they got 3/8 of 1% on all sales | ||
| Financial landmark of the Civ War; authorized by Congress in 1863 to stimulate bonds sales as well as est. a standard bank note currency | ||
| Term applied to dishonest agents that put profits above patriotism and gave the Union army cardboard shoes and **** | ||
| Discovery of petroleum gushers in PA led to ppl called this trying to get a cut of the profit | ||
| Act that gave free gold nuggets & land to try to prevent recession | ||
| US first female physician who helped organize the Sanitary Commission to provide medical supplies/assistance to armies in the field | ||
| Founded by Dr. Blackwell to provide medical supplies/assistance to armies in the field | ||
| Woman who helped transform nursing into a respected profession, creating another category of employment for women in the postwar era | ||
| 75,000 volunteers raised by Lincoln to put down the "rebellion" in the Confederacy; army trained in Washington, D.C. | ||
| Because the capitol of Confed. is Richmond & Lincoln's Potomac army is training in DC, VA needs to amass a counter-army; was a state militia led by Lee | ||
| Lee's mansion in VA that's a nat'l landmark | ||
| State holiday in the So. Commemorating Lee's bday | ||
| Lincoln's running mate in 1864 who was used to get the War Democrat vote of the Border States | ||
| Derisive term for draftees who paid $300 to escape the draft | ||
| Men who volunteer to go in someone's stead for a cash reward and ten jump to another town and draft-dodge; pocket $1000 and move on | ||
| Those who enticed people to enlist by giving them a bonus sum of money | ||
| War profiteers that provide inferior quality goods in order to make a quick buck off of the gov't/people's dollar; made cardboard soles, selling old/blind horses, re-spun wool, etc. | ||
| Florence Nightingale of the Civil War; est. clean war-hospital practices; disinfects instruments and raises the quality of nursing care | ||
| Standard issued weapon given to soldiers | ||
| War weaponry evolves and this standard issue can kill more people faster | ||
| colored ballots and troops in border states ensured Lincoln's ppl won | ||
| 1863 - Irish workers revolted against draft - they didn't want to fight for blacks who would take their jobs | ||
| Issue nth and sth fighting over (not slavery) | ||
| Lincoln's SecWar | ||
| South craved this as key to their victory; they didn't get it |
