Chapter 16

Bounties

(AL) , payments to encourage volunteers (North not South)

Battle Antietam

Civil War battle in which the North suceedeed in halting Lee's Confederate forces in Maryland. Was the bloodiest battle of the war resulting in 25,000 casualties

George Meade

Commanded the Union Army of the Potomac at Gettysburg

P.G.Beauregard

Commander of Confederate forces at Charleston was ordered to take the fort. When Anderson refused to give it up, the Confederates bombarded it for two days. On April 14, Anderson surrendered. The Civil War had begun.

Robert E. Lee

Confederate general who had opposed secession but did not believe the Union should be held together by force

J.E.B. Stuart

Confederate soldier known for his BOLD raids of seeking out information about enemy positions. Fought at the Battle of Bull Run or Manassas, Fredericksburg, and commanded the army at Chancellorsville

Richmond, Virginia

Capital of the Confederate States of America

Sally Tompkins

Established an infirmary for wounded Confederate soldiers in Richmond, Virginia. When Confederate hospitals were brought under military control, Jefferson Davis commissioned her as an officer with the rank of captain, making her the first female military officer in American history.

Casualties

People who are killed, wounded, captured, or missing in a war

Emancipation Proclamation

Issued by abraham lincoln on september 22, 1862 it declared that all slaves in the confederate states would be free

Army of the Potomac

It was the major Union army in the eastern front. It fought many battles and ultimately won the war.

Peninular Campaign

March 1862 - July 1862

Greenbacks

Name for Union paper money not backed by gold or silver. Value would fluctuate depending on status of the war (plural)

Clara Barton

Nurse during the Civil War; started the American Red Cross

Border States

States bordering the North: Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky and Missouri. They were slave states, but did not secede.

Georg McClellan

Union General

Yankees

Union Soldiers

David Farragut

Union naval admiral whose fleet captured New Orleans and Baton Rouge

William Tecumseh Sherman

United States general who was commander of all Union troops in the West

Gettysburg Address

a 3-minute address by Abraham Lincoln during the American Civil War (November 19, 1963) at the dedication of a national cemetery on the site of the Battle of Gettysburg

Battle of Gettysburg

a battle of the American Civil War (1863)

Inflation

a general and progressive increase in prices

Thirteenth Amendment

abolished slavery

"Ulysses S. Surrender"

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Monitor

any of various large tropical carnivorous lizards of Africa and Asia and Australia

Blockade

render unsuitable for passage

Draft

the act of moving a load by drawing or pulling

Offensive

the action of attacking an enemy

Total War

the channeling of a nation's entire resources into a war effort

Habeas Corpus

the civil right to obtain a writ of habeas corpus as protection against illegal imprisonment

Rebels

people who oppose or defy the government that exists

Blockade Runners

people who sneaked goods through the Civil War blockade

Entrenched

established firmly and securely

Appomattox Court House

famous as the site of the surrender of the Confederate Army under Robert E. Lee to Union commander Ulysses S. Grant

54th Massachusetts

first African American unit to fight a battle, to show the other soldiers that they could fight

"Stonewall" Jackson

general in the Confederate Army during the Civil War whose troops at the first Battle of Bull Run stood like a stone wall (1824-1863)

Loretta Janeta Velazquez

this woman fought for the Confederacy at the First Battle of Bull Run

Ironclad

without flaws or loopholes

First Battle of Bull Run

First "real" battle of the Civil War, it was expected by Union officials to be short but ended up a Confederate victory

Ambrose Burnside

General who replaced McClellan. He resigned his command voluntarily after his failure at the battle of Fredericksburg

Merrimak

The Union Monitor and the Confederate Merrimack, renamed the Virginia, traded blows in Hampton Roads for several hours but neither was able to disable the other. Eventually both ships retreated to their bases, the Virginia more the worse for wear, and never met again.

Battle of Shiloh

the second great battle of the American Civil War (1862)