A | B |
executive order | The Emancipation Proclamation was not law it was an |
Union Army | had the advantage of more railroads |
Battle of Gettysburg | more men fought and died here than in any other battle |
Picketts Charge | Lee's deadly mistake at Gettysburg |
Battle of Vicksburg | would split the Confederacy into two |
Mississippi River | Vicksburg was fought for control of |
Fifty fourth Massachusetts Regiment | an all-black Union army troop |
Robert Gould Shaw | leader of the 54th Massachusetts |
Jefferson Davis | Condederate President |
General Sherman | marched through the state of Georgia dealing devastating blows |
Christmas Gift | Sherman presented Lincoln Savannah as a |
Appomattox | Where Lee surrendered to Grant |
Sharpsburg | Confederate name for Antietam |
General McClellan | Lincoln fired him, said he had a "case of the slows" |
Emancipation Proclamation | order by Lincoln to free the slaves |
Civil War | a war aginst opposing groups of people from the same country |
Fort Wagner | first battle for 54th Massachusetts |
Abraham Lincoln | Union President |
strong state governments | what the south wanted |
strong central government | what the north wanted |
stong military leadership | North weakness, South strength |
Manassas | Confederate name for Bull Run |
Richmond | capital city of Confederacy |
Pittsburg Landing | Confederate name for Shiloh |
I can't spare this man he fights | what Lincoln said about Grant |
war of liberation | after the Proclamation was announced it became |
Robert E Lee | Confederate General that surrendered |
Ulysses S Grant | General that defeated Confederacy |
Confederate Army | had the advantage of fighting a defensive war |
Battle of Antietam | first battle on northern soil |