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  1. 5. declared "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states "are, and henceforward shall be free."
  2. 8. also called the Battle of Sharpsburg, particularly in the Southern United States, took place during the American Civil War on September 17, 1862, between Confederate General
  3. 10. fought December 11–15, 1862, in and around Fredericksburg, Virginia, in the Eastern Theater of the American Civil War.
  4. 11. is a sea fort built on an artificial island near Charleston, South Carolina to defend the region from a naval invasion. It was built after British forces captured and occupied Washington during the War of 1812 via a naval attack.
  5. 12. Second Battle of Savannah was an encounter of the American Revolutionary War in 1779. The year before, the city of Savannah, Georgia, had been captured by a British expeditionary corps under Lieutenant-Colonel Archibald Campbel
  6. 13. was a three-day battle in the American Civil War fought between Union and Confederate forces between July 1 and July 3, 1863, in and around Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.
  7. 15. Plunderers and militant abolitionists
  8. 17. military strategy proposed by Union General Winfield Scott early in the American Civil War.
  9. 18. term commonly used in the US military during the American Civil War to describe a new status for certain people who escaped slavery or those who affiliated
  10. 19. was the final major military action in the Vicksburg campaign of the American Civil War.
  11. 21. the historic period in which the United States grappled with the question of how to integrate millions of newly freed African Americans into social, political, and labor systems,
  12. 22. laws passed at different periods in the southern United States to enforce racial segregation and curtail the power of Black voters
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  1. 1. A forgotten history of the largest slave auction ever on American soil.
  2. 2. On April 9, 1865, the surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia in the McLean House in the village of Appomattox Court House, Virginia signaled the effective end of the nation's largest war.
  3. 3. a servant in a royal or noble household, ranking between a sergeant and a groom or a squire and a page.
  4. 4. The Battle of Atlanta took place during the Atlanta Campaign of the American Civil War on July 22, 1864, just southeast of Atlanta, Georgia
  5. 6. the resistance to enslavement through escape and flight, through the end of the Civil War
  6. 7. a military campaign of the American Civil War conducted through Georgia from November 15 until December 21, 1864
  7. 9. The First Battle of Bull Run, called the Battle of First Manassas by Confederate forces, was the first major battle of the American Civil War.
  8. 14. was fought on June 27, 1864, during the Atlanta Campaign of the American Civil War.
  9. 16. the policy of protecting the interests of native-born or established inhabitants against those of immigrants
  10. 20. also known as the Battle of Pittsburg Landing, allowed Union troops to penetrate the Confederate interior