| A | B |
| Jefferson Davis | President of the CSA |
| Robert E. Lee | Commander of the Army of Northern Virginia |
| Stonewall Jackson | "Old Jack" Confederate general |
| George McClellan | US general with "the slows" |
| US Grant | Union general who won the war |
| William Sherman | Union general who marched through Georgia |
| Gettysburg | Battle in Penn, July, 1863 |
| Vicksburg | Confederate fort on the Mississippii River |
| Wade-Davis Bill | first reconstruction measure |
| Emancipation Proclamation | declared the slaves free |
| The Seven Days | 1862 battles near Richmond |
| JEB Suart | CSA general killed at Yellow Tavern |
| "With malice toward none..." | Lincoln's second inaugural address |
| Five Forks | Battle 4/1/65 that crushed the Confederacy |
| George Pickett | CSA general who led a charge at Gettysburg |
| Phil Sheridan | US general who improved the cavalry |
| Mary Chesnut | Southern woman who kept a diary |
| Frederick Douglass | abolitionist |
| "Copperheads" | northerners who opposed the war |
| Nathan Bedford Forrest | CSA general "Git there fustest with the mostest." |
| "The better angels of our nature." | Lincoln's first inaugural adress |
| Chancellorsville | Lee's greatest victory |
| Draft riots | 1863 in New York City |
| Shiloh | Tennessee battle, 1862 |