Ch. 17 Terms

2. about 40,000 troops headed south toward Corinth, Mississippi ; a major railroad junction. Confederate leaders decided to strike before more troops arrived to reinforce the Union. The Union won the victory, yet they lost over 12,000 troops.
3. stream or smaller river that feeds into a larger river. (Mississippi River)
5. UlyssesSGrant Leader of the Union and led its army’s
7. the first major battle of the civil war. It turned out to be a Confederate victory.
11. decree issued by President Lincoln freeing slaves in those parts of the confederacy still in rebellion on January, 1 1863.
12. President during the Civil War (1861-1865)
13. People (known as Rebels) that supported the South’s cause to keep slavery.

1. a warship equipped with iron plating for protection.
2. state on the border between the North and South: Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky, and Missouri.
4. the first and only president on the Confederacy.
6. the bloodiest single - day battle in American history. Union forces halted General Lee’s advance into Maryland, until that time, the South had won most victories in the Civil War.
8. People (known as Yankees) that supported the North’s cause to end slavery.
9. the first and only president on the Confederacy.
10. on April 9, 1865, General Ulysses S. Grant and General Robert E. Lee met at Appomattox Court House, Virginia to discuss terms of the surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia to end the war.