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| Fort Sumter | federal fort located in the harbor of Charleston, South Carolina; the Southern attack on Fort Sumter marked the beginning of the Civil War |
| Robert E. Lee | talented military leader who became the commanding general of the Army of Northern Virginia |
| border state | a slave state that bordered states in which slavery was illegal.Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky and Missouri |
| King Cotton | cotton was called king because cotton was important to the world market and the South grew most of the cotton for Europe's mills |
| Anaconda Plan | a strategy by which the Union proposed to defeat the Confederacy in the Civil War |
| blockade | when armed forces prevent the transportation of goods or people into or out of an area |
| First Battle of Bull Run | an 1861 battle of the Civil War in which the SOuth shocked the North with a victory |
| hygiene | conditions and practices that promote health |
| rifle | a gun with a grooved barrel that causes a bullet to spin through the air |
| minie ball | a bullet with a hollow base |
| ironclad | a warship covered with iron |
| Ulysses S. Grant | victorious Civil War Union general in the West |
| Battle of Shiloh | an 1862 battle in which the Union forced the Confederacy to retreat in some of the fiercest fighting in the Civil War |
| cavalry | soldiers on horseback |
| Seven Days' Battles | an 1862 Civil War battle in which the Confederacy forced the Union to retreat before it could capture the Southern capital of Richmond |
| Battle Antietam | a Civil War battle in 1862 in which 25,000 men were killed or wounded |
