Civil War (US) Flashcards
Slave involved in Supreme Court decision
Dred Scott
Union general who captured Atlanta
William T. Sherman
Superintendent of Union Army nurses
Dorothea Dix
Female Civil War surgeon who received Congressional Medal of Honor
Mary Walker
Civil War “Angel of the Battlefield”
Clara Barton
Female “Spy of the Cumberland”
Pauline Cushman
Confederate female spy
Belle Boyd
Union ironclad
Monitor
Man who led raid on Harper’s Ferry - 1859
John Brown
Union army chief relieved in 1862
George McClellan
Civil War detective agency
Pinkerton’s
Pinkerton’s Detective agency motto
“We never sleep”
States along the Mason-Dixon line
Border States
First state to secede from the union
South Carolina
Last state to secede from the unioin
Virginia
First state to rejoin the union
Tennessee
First capital of the confederacy
Montgomery AL
Underground railroad conductor; “Moses” of her people
Harriet Tubman
C.S.A. general; victor at Shenandoah Valley
Stonewall Jackson
The “Cradle of the Confederacy”
Montgomery AL
Confederate capital after Montgomery
Richmond VA
President of Confederate States of America
Jefferson Davis
Vice president of C.S.A.
Alexander Stephens
Number of states in the confederacy
Eleven
Number of states in the union
twenty-three
Lincoln’s first choice to head union army
Robert E. Lee
Union admiral who captured Mobile Bay - 1864
David Farragut
C.S.A. general who captured Fort Sumter
P.G.T. Beauregard
Union general who was Buchanan’s VP
John C. Breckenridge