Civil War Test People Flashcards
Robert E Lee
Was offered to be the commander of the north and he turned it down
Irwin McDowell
The General for the North in battle of bull run
Ulysses S. Grant
Union commander captured both of these forts
Fort Henry and fort doneison
Called him the butcher in the norther newspaper
David Farragut
Port of New Orleans captured and he cut off the mouth of the Mississippi River
Albert Sidney Johnson
Souths general of battle of Shiloh
General George McClellan
” Young napoleon “
New commander of the union army of the Potomac
President election
Democratic: make peace
Dorothea Dix
1 st nursing corps
Clara Barton
“Angle of the battlefield”
Sally Thompkins
Southern nursing corps
Elizabeth Blackwell
1st women doctor in USA
Harriet Tubman
Norths spy
Rose O Neil Greenhow
Souths spy
Mary chestnut
South writer (diary)
Juliet Ward
North wrote the “battle hymn of the republic “
Loretta Velazquez
Women disguised has a man
Don Emmett
Wrote Dixie
Robert E Lee quote
It is well that war is so terrible we should grow to fond of it
General George Pickett
Battle of Gettysburg
Along with Virginians attacked “high tide of the confederacy” - lost 7,500 men
Edward Everitt
Gave Major address
William Techumseh Sherman
Became 2nd in command of the union
“ March to sea “
John Wilkes Booth
Assassinated Abraham Lincoln
Matthew Brady
Main photographer
Mary Surat
1st women executed in US history
Edwin stenton
Great emancipator was dead now he belongs to the ages
Wilmer McClean
” The war began in my front yard and ended in my back parlor “
