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- 3. - ________ was a general officer in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. He played a prominent role in nearly all military engagements in the Eastern theater of the war until his death.
- 5. Run - ___ ____ was the first major battle of the American Civil War. It was also called the Battle of First Manassas by Confederate forces. The battle was fought in Prince William County, Virginia, just north of the city of Manassas and about thirty miles west-southwest of Washington, D.C
- 10. - _______ was a major strategic city for the Confederacy that served as a railroad terminus, supply depot, and manufacturing hub.
- 12. - ______ was an American general in the Union Army during the American Civil War and one of the principal commanders in the Western Theater.
- 14. - _______ was a career United States Army officer who became a major general in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. He was also known for leading one of the worst war decisions in the Battle of Gettysburg.
- 15. - ___________ was the largest and most famous of 150 military prisons of the Civil War, Camp Sumter, commonly known as Andersonville, was the deadliest landscape of the Civil War. Of the 45,000 Union soldiers imprisoned here, nearly 13,000 died.
- 17. - _______ was an American Civil War general for the Union, chiefly remembered for his decisive defeat by Confederate General Robert E. Lee at the Battle of Chancellorsville in 1863.
- 19. - ______ was an American military officer, politician, and the 18th president of the United States, who served from 1869 to 1877. He led the Union Army to victory in the American Civil War in 1865 and briefly served as U.S. Secretary of War
- 20. - ________ was an American college professor from Maine who volunteered during the American Civil War to join the Union Army. He became a highly respected and decorated Union officer, reaching the rank of brigadier general.
- 22. - __________ was one of the Confederate generals of the American Civil War and the principal subordinate to General Robert E. Lee, who called him his "Old War Horse".
- 24. - _______ was a flag officer of the United States Navy during the American Civil War. He was the first rear admiral, vice admiral, and admiral in the United States Navy.
- 25. Proclamation - The ________ _________ was issued by Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863, as the nation approached its third year of bloody civil war. The proclamation declared "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states "are, and henceforward shall be free."
- 26. - _______ was an American army officer and politician who became a senior Union general in the Civil War and three-time Governor of Rhode Island, as well as being a successful inventor and industrialist.
- 29. - _______ or the Battle of Sharpsburg, took place during the American Civil War on September 17, 1862, between Confederate General Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia and Union Major General George B. McClellan's Army of the Potomac near Sharpsburg, Maryland, and Antietam Creek.
- 30. - _______ was the final major military action in the Vicksburg campaign of the American Civil War.
- 31. - _____ was a Cherokee chief who signed the treaty forcing tribal removal of the Cherokees from Georgia and who later served as brigadier general in the Confederate Army during the U.S. Civil War.
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- 1. - ________ graduated from West Point and served in the Mexican War. He also led the Peninsular campaign during the Civil War. He served as govenor of New Jersery from 1878 to 1881
- 2. Sumter - ____ ______ was bombarded near Charleston, South Carolina by the South Carolina militia. It ended with its surrender by the United States Army, beginning the American Civil War.
- 4. - _____, also known as the Battle of Pittsburg Landing, was a major battle in the American Civil War. The fighting took place in southwestern Tennessee, which was part of the war's Western Theater
- 6. - ________ was a three-day battle in the American Civil War fought between Union and Confederate forces, in and around Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.
- 7. - _____ was an American politician, lawyer, and US Army officer. In his political career, he served in the U.S. House of Representatives from Illinois and later as a U.S. Senator from Oregon.
- 8. - _________was one of the last battles of the American Civil War. It was the final engagement of Confederate General in Chief Robert E. Lee and his Army of Northern Virginia before they surrendered to the Union Army of the Potomac under the Commanding General Ulysses S. Grant.
- 9. - ______ was a Confederate States Army general during the American Civil War. He was a cavalry commander known for his mastery of reconnaissance.
- 11. - _________ was an American lawyer, politician, and statesman, who served as the 16th president of the United States, from 1861 until his assassination in 1865
- 13. - _______ was an American soldier, businessman, educator, and author. He served as a general in the Union Army during the American Civil War, achieving recognition for his command of military strategy as well as criticism for the harshness against his troops.
- 16. - ____ was a Confederate general during the American Civil War, toward the end of which he was appointed the overall commander of the Confederate States Army
- 18. Plan - The ______ ____ was a military strategy proposed by Union General Winfield Scott early in the American Civil War. The plan was to cut off supplies to Confederate forces and divide and conquer their fighting force. Lastly, the end goal was to ambush and surround the Confederacy, leading to a Union victory.
- 21. - The ________ was an ironclad warship built for the United States Navy during the American Civil War and completed in early 1862, the first such ship commissioned by the Navy.
- 23. - ______ was the president of the Confederated States of America. He represented Mississippi in the United States Senate and the House of Representatives as a member of the Democratic Party before the American Civil War.
- 27. - _______ was a career United States Army officer and a Union general in the American Civil War. He also has a poem written about him.
- 28. - The _________ was a steam frigate, best known as the hull upon which the ironclad warship CSS Virginia was constructed during the American Civil War. The CSS Virginia then took part in the Battle of Hampton Roads in the first engagement between ironclad warships.