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Ulysses S. Grant |
Commanding General- led the Union Army to victory over the Confederacy in the American Civil War |
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Andersonville |
Infamous Civil War prisoner-of-war camp in Macon County, GA. Over 13,000 Union soldiers died in the camp. |
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Emancipation Proclamation |
Speech given by President Lincoln freeing the slaves in the South. |
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Civil War |
fighting between people in the same country |
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Confederacy |
It consisted of the government of 11 Southern states that seceded from the Union in 1860-1861. |
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Anaconda Plan |
Union strategy during the Civil War which incorporated a plan to blockade Southern ports and capture the Mississippi River. It resembled an anaconda squeezing its prey to death. |
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Fort Sumter |
Located in Charleston Harbor, South Carolina. Shots were fired here that started the American Civil War on April 12, 1861. |
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Antietam |
September 17, 1862, Union victory in Maryland, site of the bloodiest 1 day battle in the war. |
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Blockade |
Obstruct; prevent the South from selling cotton abroad and importing supplies |
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Robert E. Lee |
General of the Confederate Army |
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Chickamauga |
September 18-20, Confederate victory; largest battle fought in GA; led to the Battle of Chattanooga; Confederate soldiers did not follow up on the Union retreat & the Union took the city back. |
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Union |
Term used to refer to the United States of America during the Civil War who were against slavery. |
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Jefferson Davis |
The first and only President of the Confederate States of America. |
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General William Sherman |
U.S. Civil War Army leader known for "Sherman's March," in which he and his troops laid waste to the South. |
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Gettysburg |
July 1-36, 1864, Pennsylvania, Union victory; turning point of the Civil War that ended General Lee's second invasion of the North. |