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| Anaconda Plan | Union military strategy to surround the Confederacy and take their capital city of Richmond |
| US Military Academy | An engineering college which trained the majority of the military commanders for both armies |
| Fort Sumter | Opening shots of Civil War near Charleston, SC |
| Bull Run/Manassas | First major battle of the war, Confederate victory |
| Antietam | Fought in Maryland, the bloodiest battle of the Civil War |
| Chancellorsville | Confederate offensive where they broke through to the North, Stonewall Jackson killed |
| Gettysburg | Furthest north the confederate army reaches, fought July 1864 |
| Vicksburg | Union takes full control of Mississippi River in July 1864 |
| March to the Sea | Sherman's total war on through the state of Georgia |
| Appomattox | The final scene of the Civil War where the leaders of both sides coordially negotiate the confederate surrender |
| George McClellan | Union commander who failed to defeat the confederacy early |
| Ulysses S. Grant | Final commander of Union Army, known best for victory at Vicksburg |
| William Tecumseh Sherman | Led the "March to the Sea" which demoralized the Confederacy |
| Robert E. Lee | Leader of the Confederate Army, offered Union leadership but could not turn against his home state |
| Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson | Second in command of Confederate Army, engineered battle of Chancellorsville before his death |
| Jefferson Davis | President of the Confederacy, West Point graduate |
| Abraham Lincoln | President of US, his election of 1860 sparked the Civil War |
| Gettysburg Address | Lincoln's dedication to the Gettysburg Cemetary, known as a turning point in America's view of federalism |
| Emancipation Proclamation | Military strategy to release slaves in confederate territories, but preserves slavery on Union lands |
| John Wilkes Booth | Lincoln's assasin |
| O Captain! My Captain! | Walt Whitman's poem about Lincoln's Assasination |
| Robert Gould Shaw | Commander of the 54th Massachusetts |
| 54th Massachusetts | All black regiment of the union army |
| Joshua Lawrence Chamberlin | Officer of the 20th Maine, played a key role in the battle of Gettysburg |
