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Alexander Stephens

vice president of the confederacy who said "Slavery is the chief cause of succession"; basically said war was bc of slavery

Edmund Ruffin

Confederate soldier who fired the first shot at Fort Sumter

Robert Anderson

Union General who moved troops to Fort Sumter

PGT Beauregard

Southern Commander at Fort Sumter

PGT Beauregard

gets lots of Credit for the First Battle of Bull Run

Doughfaces

Northerners who had sympathy for the south

Red Strings

Southerners who wanted peace and an end to the confederacy; wore red string on lapel

Copperheads

Peace democrats who opposed the Civil War; aka Doughfaces

Crittenden's Compromise

Made by John C. Crittenden; said to extend the Missouri Compromise and CA could be slave state and also slavery would be protected where it was

David Farragut

Union Admiral who captured New Orleans

Benjamin Butler

Union General under David Farragut with 18,000 ships and helped capture New Orleans

US Grant

became general of the Union Armies

US Grant

General of the Army of Tennessee

George McClellan

made the Peninsula Campaign Plan,Democratic nominee for the President in 1864,
known as "little Mac", great organizer, reluctant to use army

George McClellan

took control of the Army of the Potomac after the First Battle of Bull Run

Antietam

place of battle in which "Bloody Lane" is used; there was 12 hrs fighting and 19,000 casualties

Ambrose Burnside

becomes General of the Army of the Potomac and was in charge during the BAttle of Fredericksburg

Joseph Hooker

becomes General of the Army of the Potomac after Ambros Burnside; General at Chancellorville

Joseph Hooker

who loses confidence in Joe Hooker during the Battle of Spotslyvania Courthouse/Chancelorville

Robert E Lee

Leader of the Army of North Virginia,
head General of the Confederacy

Gettysburg

Pickett's Charge here was considered "the high tide of the Confederacy", it ended July 3, 1863

Vicksburg

Known as the "Gibraltar of the South", surrendered July 4, 1863

George Meade

became the General of the Potomac after Joe Hooker; General in Gettysburg

The Emancipation Proclamation

issued by President Lincoln that gave freedom to all slaves in any states of tghe Confdederacy that did not return to the union by Jamuray 1, 1863

James Longstreet

Known as "Lee's Old Horse"; said Little Round Top was the finest 3 hrs of fighting ever

George Pickett

commander of the only fresh confederate troops during Gettysburg;
lead a charge driving up a hill to the union hiding behind a stone wall. He lost ½ of his men

The Overland Campaign

a campaign of the Union with Sherman and Grant to win the war

William T Sherman

put as the head of the Western Union Army

William T Sherman

was also the first president of the Seminary of Learning and Service Academy/LSU

Petersburg

main railroad depot that supplied Richmond; US Grant tried to take it for 4 days but got stuck in a stalemate

Appomattox Courthouse

place where Robert E. Lee and Grand sent notes/letters back and forth "negotiating" a surrender

Wilmer McLean

owner of land at Manasses/Bull Run and the House which Lee and Grant met in

JEB Stuart

leader of the elite southern calvary; known as the "Eyes of General Lee"

Andersonville

largest Confederate Civil War prisoner camp for captured Union soldiers

Camp Douglas

union camp for Confederate prisoners; known as "80 acres of hell"

Henry Wirz

head of the camp at Andersonville, GA, only person to be executed for war crimes in civil war and had the first war crime trial in modern history

Election of 1864

Incumbent President Abraham Lincoln of the National Union Party easily defeated the Democratic nominee, former General George B. McClellan, by a wide margin of 212–21 in the electoral college, with 55% of the popular vote.

Jefferson Davis

president of the confederates