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
Union general; “Fighting Joe”
Joseph Hooker
Union general; “Uncle Billy”
William Tecumseh Sherman
Union general; “Little Phil”
Phillip Sheridan
Union general with “mutton chop” sideburns
Ambrose Burnside
Union general that had been Rhode Island governor
Ambrose Burnside
Union general who resigned ahead of the Union Army - 1861
Winfield Scott
Confederate ironclad
Merrimack
C.S.A. general; “Old Jube”
Jubilee Anderson Early
Man who shot Lincoln
John Wilkes Booth
Gettysburg “charge”
Pickett’s Charge
Gettysburg ridge Pickett charged up
Cemetary Ridge
Place where Lee surrended - April 1865
Appomattox (Court House)
Farm where Lee met Grant to sign the surrender
Wilmer McLean’s
Rebuilding the South after the US Civil War
Reconstruction
Confederate inaugral song
Dixie
Last state to rejoin the union
Georgia
Lincoln was shot while watching this play
Our American Cousin
Union commander at Gettysburg
George Meade
Doctor who set Booth’s broken leg
Samuel Mudd
Woman hung for Lincoln’s death
Mary Surratt
Only person executed for war crimes after US Civil War
Henry Wirz - Andersonville POW commandant
Term for southern sympathizers in the North
Copperhead
Northern opportunists in the South after Civil War
Carpetbaggers
Civil War photographer
Matthew Brady
20th century US Civil War historian
Bruce Catton
Theater where Lincoln was shot
Ford’s Theater
Virginia battle site - Aug 1862
Second Manassas (Bull Run) won by Jackson’s army
Merrimack’s other name
Virginia
Ill-fated C.S.A. submarine
Hunley
“The Breadbasket of the Confederacy”
Shanandoah Valley
Infamous Confederate POW camp
Andersonville (in GA)
Confederate train hijacked by the North
The General
Site of first Civil War battle in April 1861
Fort Sumter
First major battle of the US Civil War - July 1861
First Manassas (Bull Run) Virginia
Gettysburg ridge defended by Union Armies
Seminary Ridge
“Road to Richmond” battle - Feb-June 1862
Shenandoah Valley Campaign
Confederate commander at Gettysburg
Robert E. Lee
Bloodiest battle in American history - Sept 1862
Antietam MD
Lawrence KS raiders from Missouri - 1863
Quantrill’s Raiders (including Jesse James)
Battle where Stonewall Jackson lost an arm
Fredericksburg
Battle where Stonewall Jackson was killed - May 1863
Chancellorsville - TN
Mississippi River battle site - March-July 1863
Vicksburg MS
Pennsylvannia battle site - July 1863
Gettysburg
Group of Civil War veterans
Grand Army of the Republic
Tennessee battle site - April 1862
Shiloh (won by U.S. Grant)