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)