| A | B |
|---|
| "go secesh" | decide in favor of secession |
| "a peculiar institution" & "festering hurt | slavery |
| Sumter | a fort in Charleston Bay |
| Copernicus | scientist who proved the earth went around the sun |
| Major Anderson | the commander who held out for 30+ hours against the Confederates |
| Unionist | one who favored the United States as a union (meaning one country) |
| abolitionist | one who believed in and worked toward the ending of slavery |
| crocodile tears | false show of sympathy |
| William Lloyd Garrison | founded the American Anti-Slavery Society |
| General P.G.T. Beauregard | Southerner who open fired on Sumter |
| Newton | the town where Shad goes to get news of the war |
| Walnut Hill | the cemetery where the Creighton children are buried |
| Mason-Dixon line | boundary between Northern free states and Southern slave states |
| mouth organ | a harmonica |
| Wilse Graham | Ellen's nephew from Kentucky; a slaveholder |
| Robert E. Lee | Confederate general- Army of Northern Virginia |
| The Battle of Manassas | The Battle of Bull Run |
| Johnny Reb | One who fights for the South |
| Billy Yank | One who fights for the North |
| Abraham Lincoln | The 16th president of the United States |
