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Civil War (US) Flashcards

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Lawrence KS raiders from Missouri - 1863

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Quantrill’s Raiders (including Jesse James)

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C.S.A. general; victor at Shenandoah Valley

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Stonewall Jackson

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Rebuilding the South after the US Civil War

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Reconstruction

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Gettysburg ridge Pickett charged up

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Cemetary Ridge

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5
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Number of states in the union

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twenty-three

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Union general; “Little Phil”

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Phillip Sheridan

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Slave involved in Supreme Court decision

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Dred Scott

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Farm where Lee met Grant to sign the surrender

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Wilmer McLean’s

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Tennessee battle site - April 1862

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Shiloh (won by U.S. Grant)

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Woman hung for Lincoln’s death

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Mary Surratt

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Northern opportunists in the South after Civil War

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Carpetbaggers

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Confederate female spy

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Belle Boyd

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13
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Lincoln was shot while watching this play

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Our American Cousin

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14
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Battle where Stonewall Jackson was killed - May 1863

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Chancellorsville - TN

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15
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Gettysburg ridge defended by Union Armies

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Seminary Ridge

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16
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Term for southern sympathizers in the North

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Copperhead

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17
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Doctor who set Booth’s broken leg

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Samuel Mudd

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18
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C.S.A. general; “Old Jube”

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Jubilee Anderson Early

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19
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Man who shot Lincoln

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John Wilkes Booth

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20
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First major battle of the US Civil War - July 1861

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First Manassas (Bull Run) Virginia

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21
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20th century US Civil War historian

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Bruce Catton

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22
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Female Civil War surgeon who received Congressional Medal of Honor

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Mary Walker

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23
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Site of first Civil War battle in April 1861

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Fort Sumter

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24
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The “Cradle of the Confederacy”

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Montgomery AL

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25
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Union general; “Uncle Billy”

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William Tecumseh Sherman

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26
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Civil War detective agency

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Pinkerton’s

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27
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Confederate commander at Gettysburg

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Robert E. Lee

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28
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Merrimack’s other name

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Virginia

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29
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First state to rejoin the union

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Tennessee

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30
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Superintendent of Union Army nurses

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Dorothea Dix

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Confederate ironclad

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“Road to Richmond” battle - Feb-June 1862

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Shenandoah Valley Campaign

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Bloodiest battle in American history - Sept 1862

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Antietam MD

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Last state to secede from the unioin

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Union army chief relieved in 1862

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George McClellan

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Lincoln’s first choice to head union army

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Robert E. Lee

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Union general with “mutton chop” sideburns

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Ambrose Burnside

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Number of states in the confederacy

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Confederate train hijacked by the North

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The General

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Confederate capital after Montgomery

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Richmond VA

41
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Place where Lee surrended - April 1865

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Appomattox (Court House)

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Mississippi River battle site - March-July 1863

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Vicksburg MS

43
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Man who led raid on Harper’s Ferry - 1859

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John Brown

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Ill-fated C.S.A. submarine

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Union admiral who captured Mobile Bay - 1864

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David Farragut

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Civil War photographer

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Matthew Brady

47
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Confederate inaugral song

48
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Union general that had been Rhode Island governor

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Ambrose Burnside

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Pinkerton’s Detective agency motto

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“We never sleep”

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Union commander at Gettysburg

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George Meade

51
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Battle where Stonewall Jackson lost an arm

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Fredericksburg

52
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Union general who resigned ahead of the Union Army - 1861

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Winfield Scott

53
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Pennsylvannia battle site - July 1863

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Gettysburg

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Union general; “Fighting Joe”

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Joseph Hooker

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President of Confederate States of America

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Jefferson Davis

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“The Breadbasket of the Confederacy”

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Shanandoah Valley

57
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First capital of the confederacy

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Montgomery AL

58
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States along the Mason-Dixon line

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Border States

59
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Infamous Confederate POW camp

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Andersonville (in GA)

60
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C.S.A. general who captured Fort Sumter

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P.G.T. Beauregard

61
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First state to secede from the union

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South Carolina

62
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Group of Civil War veterans

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Grand Army of the Republic

63
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Last state to rejoin the union

64
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Vice president of C.S.A.

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Alexander Stephens

65
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Union general who captured Atlanta

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William T. Sherman

66
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Underground railroad conductor; “Moses” of her people

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Harriet Tubman

67
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Gettysburg “charge”

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Pickett’s Charge

68
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Union general who was Buchanan’s VP

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John C. Breckenridge

69
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Theater where Lincoln was shot

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Ford’s Theater

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Virginia battle site - Aug 1862

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Second Manassas (Bull Run) won by Jackson’s army

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Female “Spy of the Cumberland”

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Pauline Cushman

72
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Union ironclad

73
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Civil War “Angel of the Battlefield”

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Clara Barton

74
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Only person executed for war crimes after US Civil War

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Henry Wirz - Andersonville POW commandant

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