| A | B |
| emancipate | to free |
| strategy | a long-range plan |
| Andrew Johnson | military govenor of Tennessee during war |
| anaconda | Union war strategy |
| retreat | falling back of troops in a battle |
| Battle of Bull Run | first major battle of the war |
| Battle of Shiloh | put most of central and western Tennessee under Union control |
| Pittsburgh Landing | location of the Battle of Shiloh |
| casualty | person who has been killed or wounded in battle |
| Robert E. Lee | Confederate general who led troops at Antietam |
| Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson | hero of Battle of Bull Run |
| Ulysses S. Grant | Union general who led troops at Shiloh |
| Manassas Junction | location of the Battle of Bull Run |
| Antietam Creek | Union victory here led to emancipation |
| blockade | laying seige to an area or harbor to prevent trade |
| Emancipation Proclamation | freed slaves in the Confederacy |
| 54th Massachusetts | Black regiment who led assault at Fort Wagner |
| immigrant | a person who comes into a country to make a new life |
| Robert Smalls | took over a Confederate steamer |
| prejudice | an unfair feeling of dislike of a group because of race or religion |
| Clara Barton | the "Angel of the Battlefield" |
| Dorothea Dix | supervised Union nurses |
| Sally Thompkins | ran a Confederate hospital |
| Belle Boyd | spied for the Confederacy |
| blockade | strategy to restrict trade to an area or harbor |