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| Fort Sumter | the first shots of the Civil War were fired here |
| Andconda Plan | Norhern plan to crush the Confederacy |
| Bull Run | also called Manassas, site of the forst major battle of the Civil War |
| Stonewall Jackson | southern general famous for his coolness under pressure |
| George McClellan | timid commander of the Army of the Potomac, fired by Lincoln for poor results |
| Ulysses S. Grant | Union general given overall command |
| Shiloh | also known as Pittsburg landing, Union general Ulysses S. Grant's big victory in the West |
| David G. Farragut | Union admiral who capture New Orleans and most of the Mississippi River Valley |
| Merrimack | the CSS Virgina, the south's ironclad |
| Monitor | Union ironclad that fought the Merrimack at Hampton Roads |
| Robert E. Lee | brilliant Confederate commader of the Army of Northern Virginia |
| Antietam | bloodiest day of the Civil War |
| Emancipation Proclamation | freed slaves in territories in rebellion in 1862 |
| habeas corpus | court proceeding that requires the government to explain in court why a person has been imprisoned |
| Copperhead | Northern Democrat who favored peace with the South |
| conscription | military draft |
| Fort Pillow | location of a massacre of African American prisoners by Confederates, located in Tennessee |
| income tax | tax that takes a specified percentage of one's income |
| Clara Barton | organizer of the Union's nurse corps and founder of the American Red Cross |
| Andersonville | Confederate prison camp in Georgia known for bad conditions and brutality |
| Gettysburg | site of a three day battle in Pennsylvania, July 1-3, 1863 (a turning point in the war) |
| Chancellorsville | Confederate victory in 1863 at which Stonewall Jackson was killed |
| Vicksburg | fortress on the Mississippi River that was captured by US Grant in 1863 |
| William Tecumseh Sherman | Union general who led a destructive march through Georgia and practiced total warfare |
| Appomattox Courthouse | place where Robert E. Lee surrendered the the Army of Northern Virginia to Ulysses S. Grant in April 1865 |
| Gettysburg Address | Lincoln's speech in 1863 dedicating Gettysburg cemetery and stating Lincoln's war aims |
| National Bank Act | set up a system of federally chartered national banks |
| Thirteenth Amendment | abolished slavery |
| Red Cross | organization set up to ease human suffering |
| John Wilkes Booth | assassin of Abraham Lincoln |
