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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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President of the Confederate States of America

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Jefferson Davis

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Vice President of the CSA

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Alexander Stephens

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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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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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Union General: “Fighting Joe”

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

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Union General “uncle billy” Captured Savannah

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William Tecumseh Sherman

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Union General “Little Phil”

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Philip Sheridan

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Union General with “Mutton Chop” Sideburns

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Ambrose Burnside (Rhode Island Governor)

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He Resigned as Head of the Union Army

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Winfield Scott

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Union Army Chief Relieved in 1862

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George McClellan (“Little Mac”)

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Union General who was Buchanan’s VP

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John, C. Brekinridge

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Union Admiral who Captured Mobile Bay, 1864

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David Farragut

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Union General who Captured Atlanta

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William T. Sherman

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Superintendent of Union Army Nurses

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Dorothea Dix

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Female Surgeon who received medal of honor

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Mary Walker

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“Angel of the Battlefield”

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Clara Barton

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Female “Spy of the Cumberland”

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Pauline Cushman

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Confederate Female Spy

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Belle Boyd

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Underground Railroad Conductor
Harriet Tubman
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Man Who Led Raid on Harper's Ferry, 1859
John Brown
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Slaved Involved in a Supreme Court Decision
Dred Scott
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Civil War Detective Agency
Pinkertons "We Never Sleep
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Union Gorillas
Jayhawkers
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CSA Gorillas
Bushwackers
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Line Dividing Slave and Free States
Mason-Dixon Line
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States Along the Mason Dixon Line
Border States
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First State to Secede
South Carolina
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Last State to Secede (By legislative vote)
Tennesse
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First State to Rejoin the Union
Tennessee
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Last State to Rejoin the Union
Georgia
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Union Ironclad
Monitor
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Confederate Ironclad
Merrimack (aka Virginia)
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Ill=Fated CSA Submarine
Hunley
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The Breadbasket of the Confederacy
Shenandoah Valley
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Infamous Confederate POW Camp
Andersonville (in GA)
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Confederate Train Hijacked by the North
The General (in GA)
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Site of First Civil War Battle in April, 1861
Fort Sumter
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First Major Battle, July 1861, Whore "Stonewall" Jackson Got his Nickname
First Manassas (Bull Run)
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Tennessee Battle Site, April 1862
Shiloh (Won by US Grant's Army)
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"Road to Richmond" Battle, Feb-June, 1862
Shenandoah Valley Campaign
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Virginia Battle Site, Aug 1862
Second Manassas (Bull Run)
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Bloodiest Battle in American History, Sept 1862
Antietam, MD
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Robert E. Lee's Greatest Victory, APril-May 1863
Chancellorsville, VA (Stonewall Jackson Died)
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Lawrence KS Raiders from Missouri
Quantrill's Raiders (Including Jesse James)
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Battle Where Stonewall Jackson Lost an Arm
Fredericksburg
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Mississippi River Battle Site, March-July 1863
Vicksburg, MS
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Pennsylvania Batte Site, July 1863
Gettsburg
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Union Commander at Gettsburg
George Meade
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Confederate Commander at Gettysburg
Robert E Lee
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Gettsburg Ridge Defended by Union Armys
Seminary Ridge
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Gettysburg "Charge"
Pickett's Charge
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Gettsburg Ridge Picket Charged Up
Cemetery Ridge
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He Captured Savannah, GA, Sept 1864
General Sherman
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Tennessee-Georgia Site, Sept 1863
Chickamauga, GA
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Place where lee Surrended, April 1965
Appomattox (Court House)
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Farm Where Lee met Grant to Sign the Surrender
Wilmer McClean's
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Rebuilding the South After the Civil War
Reconstruction
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Confederate Inaugural Song
Dixie
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Theater who Lincoln was shot
Ford's Theater
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Lincoln Was shot while watching
Our American Cousin
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Man Who Shot Lincoln
John Wilkes Booth
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Doctor who set Booth's Broken leg
Samuel Mudd
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Woman Hung for Lincoln Death
Mary Surratt
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Only person executed for war crimes
Henry Wirz, Andersonville POW Commandant
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Term for Southern Sympathizers in the North
Copperheads
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Northern Opportunists in the South After the War
Carpetbaggers
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Civil War Photographer
Mathew Brady
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20th Century Civil War Historian
Bruce Catton
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Group of Civil War Veterans
Grand Army of the Republic

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