Major Battles
Attack started by General Grant's troops in mid-May 1863, cutting off the city and shelling it repeatedly.
What is the Siege of Vicksburg
General that took advantage of the Union's Strengths and developed a two-part strategy
Who is Winfield Scott
"all persons held as slaves within any State or designated part of a State the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free."
What is the Emancipation Proclamation of 1862
freeing of slaves
What is a Proclamation
1809
What is Year Lincoln was Born
Asked by President Lincoln to lead the Union army. He declined and resigned from the U.S. Army to become a general in the Confederate Army
Who is Robert E. Lee
"Mississippians don't know, and refuse to learn, how to surrender... If Commodore Farragut... can teach them, let[him] come and try."
What is Statement from Colonel James L. Autry, military commander of Vicksburg
Infantry that consisted mostly of free African Americans.
What is the 54th Massachusetts Infantry
1865
What is Year Lincoln Died
16th U.S. President
Who is Abraham Lincoln
"The army is now ripe for mutiny [rebellion], unless it can be fed. If you can't feed us, you'd better surrender us, horrible as the idea is."
Escaped slaves
what is Contraband
Kentucky and Illinois
What is Places Where Lincoln Grew Up
Led key attacks on the southern ports of Vicksburg and New Orleans
Who is David Farragut
What is David R.P. Shoemaker, 1862
Constitutional protection against unlawful imprisonment
What is Habeas Corpus
1842
What is Lincoln gets Married
Founder of the American Red Cross
"I did not know that one could live in such days of excitement... Everybody tells you half of something, and then rushes off...tohear the last news."
What is Mary Boykin Chesnut, quoted in Mary Chesnut's Civil War, edited by C. Vann Woodward
midwesterners that sympathized with the South and opposed abolition
What were Copperheads
April 14, 1865
What is Day Lincoln was Shot