Generals
Union general credited with training and leading the Army of the Potomac, removed twice by Abraham Lincoln
George McClellan
President of the United States
Abraham Lincoln
South Carolina fired upon this federal fort, which began the Civil War
Fort Sumter
Nurse, who later started the Red Cross
Clara Barton
Plan Union proposed to defeat the Confederacy
Anaconda Plan
Wounded at Battle of Chancellorsville, died 8 days later of pneumonia
Thomas J. (Stonewall) Jackson
President of the Confederacy
Jefferson Davis
Bloodiest single day in American history
The Battle of Antietam (Sharpsburg)
Famous Photographer
Matthew Brady
Name of the states between the north and south, still maintained slavery after Emancipation Proclamation
Border States
Captured John Brown; Overall commander of the Confederacy (Army of Northern Virginia)
Robert E. Lee
Ran against Abraham Lincoln in the 1864 Presidential election and lost
George B. McClellan
Considered the turning point of the Civil War
The Battle of Gettysburg
Assassinated Abraham Lincoln
John Wilkes Booth
Proclamation issued on January 1, 1863, freeing the slaves in states in rebellion against the United States
Emancipation Proclamation
Union general who captured Savannah, Atlanta, Columbia, and went into North Carolina
William Tecumseh Sherman
Andrew Johnson
Famous charge at the Battle of Gettysburg
Pickett's Charge
Became President upon Lincoln's death
Andrew Johnson
Famous prison camp during the Civil War
Andersonville Prison
Killed at the Battle of Shiloh
Albert Sidney Johnston
Female African-American abolitionist, famous for using the Underground Railroad
Harriet Tubman
Battle where Thomas Jackson received the nickname, Stonewall
The First Battle of Bull Run/The First Battle of Manassas
Invented the Gatling Gun
Dr. Richard Gatling
Virginia town where Robert E. Lee surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant
Appomattox Court House