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| Richmond Virginia. Only factory in the South capable of producing cannons. |
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| He was one of the best officers in the United States army. He was from Virginia and chose to resign from the army and offered his services to the Confederacy. |
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| February 1862. This act created a national currency and allowed the government to issue paper money. |
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| paper money issued by government. |
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| Faction of Democrats. Strongly supported the War and hoped to restore the Union to the way it was before the war. And, it opposed ending slavery. |
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| Peace Democrats. They opposed the war and called for reuniting the states thru negotiation rather than force. |
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| forcing people into military service. |
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| refers to a person's right to not be imprisoned unless charged with a crime and given a trial. |
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| Confederacy Vice President. Opposed Davis' decision to suspend writs of habeas corpus. |
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| representative from Virginia sent to Britain to gain support for Confederacy. |
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| Representative from Louisiana sent to France to gain support for the Confederacy. |
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| long knives attached to the front of guns. |
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| the wearing down of one side by the other through exhaustion of soldiers and resources. |
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| defensive war of attrition |
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| Davis wanted the Union to spend its resources until it became tired of the war and agreed to negotiate. |
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| general in chief of the United States. He proposed a strategy for defeating the South, that later became known as the Anaconda Plan. |
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| Proposed by Winfield Scott. The plan was to blockade Confederate ports and send gunboats down the Mississippi to divide Confederacy. The South, thus seperated, would gradually run out of resources and surrender. |
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| small, fast vessels the South used to smuggle goods past the blockade, usually at night. |
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| Veteran of War of 1812. He took Command of a Union force composed of 42 warships and 15,000 soldiers led by Genearl Benjamin Butler. On April 25, 1862, Farragut arrived at New Orleans. Six days later, General Butler's troops took control of the city. The Union now had control of the South's largest city and center of trade. |
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| Union general. Seized Fort Henry and Fort Donelson. |
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| Emancipation Proclamation |
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| a decree freeing all enslaved persons in states still in rebellion after January 1, 1863. It excluded the border states. |
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| One of the first African American regiments organized in the North. This regiment fought valiantly at Charleston Harvor in July 1863, losing nearly half of its soldiers in battle. |
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| a hard biscuit made of wheat flour. |
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| Famous British nurse who inspired American women to take on many of the nursing taskes in army hospitals. |
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| 1st female physician in the United States. She started the first training program for nurses. |
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| United States Sanitary Commission |
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| an organization that provided medical assistance and supplies to army camps and hospitals. Tens of thousands of women volunteered to work, rasing money to send bandages, medicine, clothing, and food to army camps. |
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| She decided to leave her job in a patent office to nurse soldiers on the battlefield. She fed the sick, bandaged the wounded, and even dug out bullets with her own small knife. |
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| southwest Georgia. Most infamous prison. It was an open camp with no shade or shelter for its huge population. Exposure, overcrowding, lack of food, and disease killed more than 100 men per day during the sweltering summer of 1864. 13,000 of the 45,000 prisoners sent ot Andersonville died in the camp. |
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| the commandant at Andersonville. He became the only person executed for war crimes during the Civil War. |
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| Lincoln appointed him. He led troops to intercept Lee at the Battle of Gettysburg. |
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| Lee's army headed into the town of Gettysburg hoping to seize a supply of shoes. They encountered Union cavalry. They fought and Lee quickly rallied his troops, withdrew from Gettysburg and retreated to Virginia. The Union suffered 23,000 casualties. The Confederacy lost an estimated 28,000. This was a turning point of the war. |
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| In Nov. 1863, Lincoln came to Gettysburg to dedicate a portion of the battlefield as a military cemetery. His speech-the Gettysburg Address-became one of the best-known orations in American history. |
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| Union. Staaged a cavalry raid north and west of Richmond. |
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| Sherman's troops destroyed the rail lines by heating the rails and twisting them into snarls of steel. |
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| clear sign from the voters. |
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| January 31, 1865. Banned Slavery in the United states. |
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| Lee's attempt to escape Grant's forces at Appomattox Courthouse failed. Lee surrenderred. Grant guaranteed that the United States would not prosecute Confederate soldiers for treason. Lee thanked him. The war was over. |
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| Lincoln went to Ford's Theater with his wife on the April 14, 1865. During the third act, Booth slipped quietly behind him and shot the president in the back of the head. |
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