Baberaham Lincoln
Lincoln agreed with Frederick Douglas and created the opportunity for African American soldiers. This was the first regiment to organize.
Who were the 54th Massachusetts?
This practice became common during the Civil War as a way to preserve the dead.
What is embalming?
This Battle caused the reassignment of General John Pope.
What is Second Bull Run?
This battle occurred because the South needed shoes.
What is the Battle of Gettysburg?
This Union cavalry commander successfully defended the army at Gettysburg and would eventually become one of the most famous, and tragic, name in the US Army.
Who is General George Custer?
This man was an actor and southern sympathizer that shot Abraham Lincoln.
John Wilkes Booth
This allowed the military to stay in contact with Washington when it was hundreds of miles away in the field.
What is the Telegraph?
This battle was fought ont he same ground as the Battle of Chancellorsville.
What is the Wilderness?
The first major battle between the Union and the Confederates.
What is The First Battle of Bull Run (Manassas)?
The United States offered this General full command of the Union army but he refused.
Who is Robert E. Lee?
Lincoln waited until this "win" to release the Emancipation Proclamation.
What is Antietam?
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This allowed every citizen to witness the horrors of war.
This Battle is considered Lee's masterpiece because he split his army multiple times and caught the Union by surprise.
What is Chancellorsville?
This battle is considered the bloodiest day in American Military history.
What is The Battle of Antietam?
This General turned the tide at the Battle of Bull Run.
Who is Stonewall Jackson?
This act shifted the focus of the war to slavery, kept border states in the union, and kept the British out of the war.
What is The Emancipation Proclamation?
This invention allowed troops to be moved all around the country a lot quicker than marching.
What are Trains?
What are Steamboats?
This creek acted as the final barrier between the Union and the Confederates.
What is Appomattox?
The first shots of the Civil War were fired at this fort in this state.
Fort Sumter, South Carolina
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Some say that if Lee had listened to this Confederate General he could have won at Gettysburg.
In his first inaugural address Lincoln promised not to interfere with this.
What is the Institution of Slavery?
This military invention is the reason behind so many amputations.
What is the Minie Ball?
This siege lasted from 1864 all the way to the end of the war.
What is Petersburg?
This battle saw wave after wave of Union soldiers fall while trying to take a large hill.
What is Fredericksburg?
This General led the Union forces around the Shenandoah Valley tearing up railroad tracks and destroying farms.
Who is General Sheridan?