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Civil War Flashcards

1
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1st Capital of the Confederacy

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Montgomery, AL (Cradle of the Confederacy)

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Capital After Montgomery

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Richmond, VA

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3
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President of the Confederate States of America

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Jefferson Davis

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4
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Vice President of the CSA

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Alexander Stephens

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5
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Number of States in the Confederacy

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Eleven

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Number of States in the Union

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Twenty-Three

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Lincoln’s First Choice to Head Union Army

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Robert. E. Lee

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8
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CSA General “Old Jube”

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Jubilee Anderson Early

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CSA General Who Captured Ft Sumter

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PGT Beauregard

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CSA General, Victor at Shenandoah Valley

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(Thomas) Stonewall Jackson

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11
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Union General: “Fighting Joe”

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Joseph Hooker (term “hooker” came from his camp followers)

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12
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Union General “uncle billy” Captured Savannah

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William Tecumseh Sherman

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13
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Union General “Little Phil”

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Philip Sheridan

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14
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Union General with “Mutton Chop” Sideburns

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Ambrose Burnside (Rhode Island Governor)

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15
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He Resigned as Head of the Union Army

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Winfield Scott

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16
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Union Army Chief Relieved in 1862

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George McClellan (“Little Mac”)

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17
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Union General who was Buchanan’s VP

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John, C. Brekinridge

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18
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Union Admiral who Captured Mobile Bay, 1864

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David Farragut

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19
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Union General who Captured Atlanta

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William T. Sherman

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20
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Superintendent of Union Army Nurses

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Dorothea Dix

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21
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Female Surgeon who received medal of honor

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Mary Walker

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22
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“Angel of the Battlefield”

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Clara Barton

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23
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Female “Spy of the Cumberland”

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Pauline Cushman

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24
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Confederate Female Spy

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Belle Boyd

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25
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Underground Railroad Conductor

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Harriet Tubman

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26
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Man Who Led Raid on Harper’s Ferry, 1859

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John Brown

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27
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Slaved Involved in a Supreme Court Decision

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Dred Scott

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28
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Civil War Detective Agency

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Pinkertons “We Never Sleep

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29
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Union Gorillas

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Jayhawkers

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30
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CSA Gorillas

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Bushwackers

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31
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Line Dividing Slave and Free States

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Mason-Dixon Line

32
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States Along the Mason Dixon Line

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Border States

33
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First State to Secede

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South Carolina

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Last State to Secede (By legislative vote)

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First State to Rejoin the Union

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Last State to Rejoin the Union

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Union Ironclad

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Confederate Ironclad

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Merrimack (aka Virginia)

39
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Ill=Fated CSA Submarine

40
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The Breadbasket of the Confederacy

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Shenandoah Valley

41
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Infamous Confederate POW Camp

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Andersonville (in GA)

42
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Confederate Train Hijacked by the North

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The General (in GA)

43
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Site of First Civil War Battle in April, 1861

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Fort Sumter

44
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First Major Battle, July 1861, Whore “Stonewall” Jackson Got his Nickname

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First Manassas (Bull Run)

45
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Tennessee Battle Site, April 1862

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Shiloh (Won by US Grant’s Army)

46
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“Road to Richmond” Battle, Feb-June, 1862

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Shenandoah Valley Campaign

47
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Virginia Battle Site, Aug 1862

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Second Manassas (Bull Run)

48
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Bloodiest Battle in American History, Sept 1862

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Antietam, MD

49
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Robert E. Lee’s Greatest Victory, APril-May 1863

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Chancellorsville, VA (Stonewall Jackson Died)

50
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Lawrence KS Raiders from Missouri

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Quantrill’s Raiders (Including Jesse James)

51
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Battle Where Stonewall Jackson Lost an Arm

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Fredericksburg

52
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Mississippi River Battle Site, March-July 1863

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Vicksburg, MS

53
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Pennsylvania Batte Site, July 1863

54
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Union Commander at Gettsburg

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George Meade

55
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Confederate Commander at Gettysburg

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Robert E Lee

56
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Gettsburg Ridge Defended by Union Armys

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Seminary Ridge

57
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Gettysburg “Charge”

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Pickett’s Charge

58
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Gettsburg Ridge Picket Charged Up

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Cemetery Ridge

59
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He Captured Savannah, GA, Sept 1864

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General Sherman

60
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Tennessee-Georgia Site, Sept 1863

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Chickamauga, GA

61
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Place where lee Surrended, April 1965

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Appomattox (Court House)

62
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Farm Where Lee met Grant to Sign the Surrender

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Wilmer McClean’s

63
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Rebuilding the South After the Civil War

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Reconstruction

64
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Confederate Inaugural Song

65
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Theater who Lincoln was shot

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Ford’s Theater

66
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Lincoln Was shot while watching

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Our American Cousin

67
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Man Who Shot Lincoln

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John Wilkes Booth

68
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Doctor who set Booth’s Broken leg

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Samuel Mudd

69
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Woman Hung for Lincoln Death

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Mary Surratt

70
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Only person executed for war crimes

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Henry Wirz, Andersonville POW Commandant

71
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Term for Southern Sympathizers in the North

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Copperheads

72
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Northern Opportunists in the South After the War

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Carpetbaggers

73
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Civil War Photographer

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Mathew Brady

74
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20th Century Civil War Historian

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Bruce Catton

75
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Group of Civil War Veterans

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Grand Army of the Republic

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