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Abraham Lincoln
100

Attack started by General Grant's troops in mid-May 1863, cutting off the city and shelling it repeatedly.

What is the Siege of Vicksburg

100

General that took advantage of the Union's Strengths and developed a two-part strategy

Who is Winfield Scott

100

"all persons held as slaves within any State or designated part of a State the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free."

What is the Emancipation Proclamation of 1862

100

freeing of slaves

What is a Proclamation

100

1809

What is Year Lincoln was Born

200

Asked by President Lincoln to lead the Union army. He declined and resigned from the U.S. Army to become a general in the Confederate Army

Who is Robert E. Lee

200

"Mississippians don't know, and refuse to learn, how to surrender... If Commodore Farragut... can teach them, let[him] come and try."

What is Statement from Colonel James L. Autry, military commander of Vicksburg

200

Infantry that consisted mostly of free African Americans.

What is the 54th Massachusetts Infantry

200

1865

What is Year Lincoln Died

300

16th U.S. President

Who is Abraham Lincoln

300

"The army is now ripe for mutiny [rebellion], unless it can be fed. If you can't feed us, you'd better surrender us, horrible as the idea is."

What is Confederate soldiers at Vicksburg to General John C. Pemberton, 1863
300

Escaped slaves

what is Contraband

300

Kentucky and Illinois

What is Places Where Lincoln Grew Up

400

Led key attacks on the southern ports of Vicksburg and New Orleans

Who is David Farragut

400
"We have been wading through mud knee deep all winter... For the last two weeks we have been drilled almost to death. Squad drill from 6 to 7 A.M. Company drill from 9 to 11 A.M. Battalion Drill from 2 to 4 1/2 P.M. Dress Parade from 5 to 5 1/2 P.M. and non-commissioned officers' school from 7 to 8 in the evening. If we don't soon become a well drilled Regiment, we ought to."

What is David R.P. Shoemaker, 1862

400

Constitutional protection against unlawful imprisonment

What is Habeas Corpus

400

1842

What is Lincoln gets Married

500

Founder of the American Red Cross

Who is Clara Barton
500

"I did not know that one could live in such days of excitement... Everybody tells you half of something, and then rushes off...tohear the last news."

What is Mary Boykin Chesnut, quoted in Mary Chesnut's Civil War, edited by C. Vann Woodward

500

midwesterners that sympathized with the South and opposed abolition

What were Copperheads

500

April 14, 1865

What is Day Lincoln was Shot