A | B |
Confederacy | the 11 Southern states that separated from the United States and called itself the Confederate States of America |
secede | to withdraw formally from membership in an organization, association, or alliance |
Union | the 22 Northern States during the Civil War |
Robert E. Lee | General of the Confederacy |
Jefferson Davis | President of the Confederate States of America |
Stonewall Jackson | General of the Confederacy |
West Point | Army Academy |
Bull Run | 1st Battle of Civil War |
Abraham Lincoln | President of the United States |
George B. McClellan | Union General |
Ulysses S. Grant | Union General |
Tecumseh Sherman | Union General |
Harriet Tubman | Underground Railroad |
Frederick Douglass | abolitionist and orator |
Merrimac | Conferderate ironclad battleship |
Monitor | Union ironclad battleship |
moderate | an individual opposed to extreme views or measures in politics or religion |
emancipation | a condition of being freed from oppression, bondage or restraint |
civil rights | rights belonging to a person because of his or her status as a citizen or as a member of society |
draft | a call to military service |
Mary Livermore | aided sick Union soldiers;established U.S. Sanitary Commission |
Mary | ran Union hospitals |
Phoebe Yates Pember | ran hospital for Confederacy |
Ellen Goodridge | Union soldier |
Amy Clark | Congederate soldier |
Mathew Brady | Civil War photographer |
Phillip Henry Sheridan | Union General |
George G. Meade | Union General |
Appomattox | place where Confederacy surrendered |