| A | B |
| Ambrose Burnside | replaced General McClellan as commander of Union forces but lost at Battle of Fredericksburg |
| Battle of Fredericksburg | Lee defeated Union army causing 13,000 casulties to the south's 5,000 |
| Joseph Hooker | replaced General Burnside as Union commander |
| Battle of Chancellorsville | resulted in a southern victory but Confederate General Stonewall Jackson was killed |
| Battle of Gettysburg | Union victory in Pennsylvania. Confederate causalties were more than 28,000 and North's were 23,000 |
| George Meade | Union commander at Gettysburg |
| Pickett's Charge | infamous southern charge over open ground during Gettysburg that resulted in about 7500 southern casualties |
| Vicksburg | one of the last cities on the Mississippi River fell to General Grant in 1863 |
| Gettysburg Address | speech given by Lincoln to honor the Union soldiers who died in the battle |
| Ulysses S. Grant | named commander of all Union troops in 1864 |
| William Tecumseh Sherman | used total war to destroy the south from Atlanta to the Atlantic Ocean |
| Abraham Lincoln | "With malice toward none; with charity for all; ... let us strive together ... to bind up the nation's wounds." |
| Appomattox | location of Lee's surrender to Grant in April of 1865 |