Chud test

Admiral David Farragut

led 18 Union ships into Mobile Bay, never took Mobile but sealed off Mobile bay

March to the Sea

marched to Savannah,GA then to South Carolina, burned Columbia,SC(the capitol) demorilized, destroyed south

George Meade

replaced Hooker,

Joseph Hooker

replaced burnside, Led Union Battle of Chancelorsville, lost

Battle of Gettysburg (1863)

turning point in the war, Union victory, Bloodiest battle, Union controlled high ground,(Little round top)

Grant

union general, defeated lee, East

Battle of Chickamauga

union surrounded at chattanooga, Lincoln put Grant in overall command

Battle of Spotsylvania

11 days, hand to hand combat, turning into war of attrtion

Pickett's Charge

15000 men attacked cemetary ridge, 30 min lost 7000 men

McClellan

Antietem Victory, Union, Too cautious

Battle of the Wilderness

Civil War battle in 1864 in Virginia, won by the Confederacy

Braxton Bragg

Confederate general who won the Battle of Chickamauga

Battle of Cold Harbor

Confederate victory

Battle of Fredricksburg

Confederate victory, Union lost over 12,000

Battle of Chancellorsville

Confederates were outnumbered, Both sides split their troops, Confederate Victory, Stonewall is killed

Pettersburg

Grant put it under siege, bc it was heavily defended, cut off railroad to richmond

July 4, 1863

Lee and his men retreated to VA, Vicksburg also surrendered

April 1865

Lee surrenders to grant, in Appomattox Courtouse

April 14, 1865

Lincoln assassinated

McClellon Vs Lincoln-1864

McClellon promised to end the war Lincoln said he would finish it lincoln won with 55% after Union captured Atlanta

Burnside

Replaced McClellan, Too aggressive, lost battle at fredricksburg

Atlanta/Sherman

Sherman burned Atlanta n& ordered civilians to leave

william tecumseh sherman

Union General in the west, led March to the Sea

John Wilkes Booth

assassinated Lincoln, at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C.

13th Amendment (1865)

banned slavery in the USA

George Pickett

confederate, led Picketts charge

Henry Wirz

executed for war crimes, Commandant of Andersonville, GA