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  1. 3. of Shiloh , April 1862 Union victory in Tennessee noted for its large number of dead and wounded
  2. 8. G. Farragut , Union naval commander who took control of New Orleans in 1862
  3. 9. corpus , principle that a person cannot be held in prison without first being charged with a specific crime
  4. 10. , Union ironclad ship
  5. 12. Sumter , Union fort in the harbor of Charleston, South Carolina where the first shots of the Civil War were fired in April 1861
  6. 14. Pickett , Confederate general who led a failed charge against Union forces at Gettysburg
  7. 15. Proclamation , order issued by Abraham Lincoln declaring slaves in all rebelling states were free
  8. 20. Barton , nurse during the Civil War; founder of the American Red Cross
  9. 21. E. Lee , Commander of the Army of Northern Virginia (Confederate Army)
  10. 22. States of America , the name adopted by the 11 Southern states that seceded from the Union during the Civil War
  11. 23. C. Breckinridge , Southern Democrat candidate for President of the United States in the 1860 Election
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  1. 1. of Vicksburg , gave the Union control of the Mississippi River in July 1863 dividing the Confederate States in two
  2. 2. Cross , an international organization that cares for the sick or wounded or homeless in wartime
  3. 3. state , slave states that did not secede: Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky, Missouri
  4. 4. Massachusetts Regiment , a famous African American unit in the Union army; led an attack on Ft. Wagner near Charleston, SC
  5. 5. Act , 1862 law that allowed African American soldiers to serve in the Union military
  6. 6. Brady , Civil War photographer
  7. 7. McClellan , first commander of the Union army; fired by Lincoln after the Battle of Antietam for being too cautious
  8. 10. , Confederate ironclad ship
  9. 11. York City Draft Riots , July 1863 opposition to conscription; Irish Americans burnt buildings and killed blacks
  10. 13. , a military draft
  11. 16. tax , an 1861 3-5% tax on earnings to pay for the costs of the Civil War
  12. 17. Campaign , Spring 1862 failed Union attempt to capture Richmond led by McClellan stopped by Lee at the Seven Days Battle
  13. 18. Jackson , Confederate general during the Battle of Bull Run; later became Robert E. Lee's right-hand man
  14. 19. Davis , President of the Confederate States of America