| A | B |
|---|
| John H. Reagan | Postmaster general of the Confederacy |
| Jefferson Davis | president of the Confederacy |
| Sam Houston | Texas governor who opposed secession |
| Abraham Lincoln | President of the United States during the Civil War |
| Milton Holland | African American Texas who received the Congressional Medal of Honor |
| Sabine Pass | important victory for the Confederacy |
| Fort Sumter | First battle of the Civil War |
| Palmito Ranch | Last battle of the Civil War |
| John Wilkes Both | actor who killed President Lincoln |
| Emancipation Proclamation | freed slaves in Confederate States |
| Pendleton Murrah | Texas governor who fled to Mexico at the end of the Civil War |
| conscription | forced enrollment into military service |
| Unionists | people who supported the Union cause |
| vigilante | unauthorized police force |
| preventative strike | action to prevent future attack |
| German American | settlers in Texas who did not want to fight the Union |
| States' Rights | belief that a state could leave the Union |
| Galveston | most import seaport in Texas during the Civil War |
| Denbigh | blockade runner |
| Davis Guards | defenders of Sabine Pass |
