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The person that killed Abraham Lincoln
Who is John Wilksbooth
Sherman’s campaign for this city took 3 months in 1864
Atlanta
Confederacy Vice President barely weighed 100 pounds
Alexander Stephens
The union held this River as far south as Memphis in June 1862
The Mississippi
Quaker guns were really logs that the south painted to look like these big mounted weapons
Cannons
The date that Abraham Lincoln was born
What is February 12th, 1809
The American flag was lowered in surrender at this fort on April 14th 1861
Leader of confederate guerrillas who were hard to find
Ghost
Lincoln said of it that speech won’t scour. It is a flat failure
The Gettysburg address
Early models of the Gatling gun were manually operated using one of these
A crank
Two half brothers of this First Lady died fighting for the confederacy
Mary Todd Lincoln
Lincoln issued the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation 5 days after this 1862 Union victory in Maryland
Antietam
In November 1861 this union man became general in chief of all armies
George McClellan
no major battles were fought until this one in Virginia
First manassas
6 barreled hand- cranked was used in war by Union troops in the battle of Petersburg
A Gatling gun
Lincoln made George Meade the leader of the Army of this river in 1863
The Potomac River
In Mid 1861 Montgomery Alabama was out and this city was in as capital of the confederacy
Richmond Virginia
A favorite of lee this general actually favored preservation of the union but went with Virginia after secession
Stonewall Jackson
He made a moving farewell speech in the senate pleading for peace
Jefferson Davis
This biscuit fittingly had hard in its name unions called it iron crackers
Hardtack
These mountains divided the war into 2 Main theaters: east to the Atlantic & west to the Mississippi River
The appalachians
The 1862 battle of sharpsburg was fought over a Maryland creek that gave the fight this other name
Antietam
He said I can make the March and show the world... that we have a power Which Davis cannot resist
Sherman
general known as little Phil made his ride to stop jugar early at cedar creek
Phillip Sheridan
Tired of eating mule jerky, vicksburge fell in July 1863 after a 6-week one of these military tactics
A siege