Election of 1860
This Republican candidate won the 1860 election running on the idea of limiting slavery to where it is.
Abraham Lincoln
This was the first battle of the war.
This man won the 1860 election and was President all through the Civil War.
Abraham Lincoln
This state left the Union after the 1860 election.
This man broke the MLB color barrier in 1947.
A Democrat candidate that opposed Federal Slave Codes and supported popular sovereignty.
Stephen Douglas
This was the most common killer of soldiers during the Civil War.
Disease
This Union General was in charge at the Battle of Shiloh.
General Ulysses S. Grant
This state was where the majority of battles will be fought.
Virginia
This Union officer was in charge of Fort Sumter.
Major Robert Anderson
A Democrat candidate that supported both Federal Slave Codes and popular sovereignty.
John Breckinridge
This battle was called the first victory of the Union.
This Confederate General took part in Fort Sumter, First Battle of Bull Run and the Battle of Shiloh.
P.G.T. Beauregard
This state saw the most of the fighting of the Western Theater.
Tennessee
This Confederate General earned a famous nickname for standing tall in a firefight.
Stonewall Jackson
A Constitutional Unionist candidate who wanted to avoid slavery entirely.
John Bell
This was the real first win for the Union of the war but was ignored because it happened in the Western theater.
Battle of Shiloh
This Union General arrived with fresh troops to help Grant at Shiloh.
General Don Carlos Buell
This state is home to New Orleans and falls early in the war.
Louisiana
This General led the charge on the Confederate left flank at Antietam.
Joseph Hooker
This man was president during 1860 and saw the Southern States seceed.
James Buchanan
While not a battle this was the first shots of the war.
Fort Sumter
This Confederate General joined the Confederacy after the first battle and replace Beauregard as Commander of the Army of Northern Virginia.
Robert E. Lee
This is the state that Grant was marching into when he was stopped at Shiloh, it has a river named after.
Mississippi
This man was the overall command of the Union forces.
Major General George B. McClellan