US CIVIL WAR - BY: RAMIRO G

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  1. 4. President of the Confederate States of America.
  2. 5. Speech given by Abraham Lincoln at a memorial for Union soldiers that died at the Battle of Gettysburg.
  3. 8. Union Plan by Winfield Scott, strategy to blockade the Mississippi River and Atlantic Ocean.
  4. 10. The battle in September of 1862 ended in a draw, but 23,000 men were dead or wounded-making it the single bloodiest day of the war.
  5. 11. The first major battle of the war.
  6. 12. United States fort in Charleston harbor that was fired on by the Confederates.
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  1. 1. Issued by President Lincoln in 1863 after Union victory at Antietam.
  2. 2. Grant captures it, Mississippi river was under union control.
  3. 3. name of the new nation formed by the seceding southern states.
  4. 6. This woman was know as the "Angel of the Battlefield" during the war and founded the American Red Cross after the war.
  5. 7. President of the United States who took office in 1861.
  6. 9. The commanding general of the Confederate forces.