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?
The Army of Tennessee
What is South?
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?
The Army of the Tennessee
What is North?
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?
This allowed every citizen to witness the horrors of war.
What is the photographic camera?
The Army of Northern Virginia
What is South?
This battle is considered the bloodiest day in American Military history.
What is The Battle of Antietam?
This general became known as "The Butcher" after the Battle of Shiloh.
Who is Ulysses Grant?
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?
The Army of the West?
What is the South?
The first shots of the Civil War were fired at this fort in this state.
Fort Sumter, South Carolina
Some say that if Lee had listened to this Confederate General he could have won at Gettysburg.
Who is James Longstreet?
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?
The Army of the Mississippi
What is North?
This battle saw wave after wave of Union soldiers fall while trying to take a large hill.
What is Fredericksburg?
This General headed all Union armies at the very beginning of the war.
Who is Winfield Scott?