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- 2. A Confederate major general best known for leading the disastrous "_______ Charge" on the third day of the Battle of Gettysburg in July 1863.
- 6. There were two of these wars, this was a war that started in farmer McLeans front yard crashing into his kitchen, which prompted him to move to the Appomattox where the war later ended.
- 7. President of the Confederate states of America during the civil war.
- 11. Union Major General, renowned for his aggressive command style, and helped with Robert E. lees surrender.
- 12. A U.S. Senator from Oregon, a close friend of President Abraham Lincoln, and a Union Army colonel.
- 13. A decisive Union victory during the American Civil War, widely considered the conflict's turning point. Fought in Pennsylvania, Major General George Meade’s Army of the Potomac defeated General Robert E. Lee’s Confederate Army, ending his invasion of the North and causing over 50,000 casualties.
- 15. Led the "March to the Sea" through Georgia and the Carolinas.
- 16. A prominent Cherokee leader. He commanded the First Indian Brigade in the Trans-Mississippi Theater and was notable as the last Confederate general to surrender.
- 21. Declared that all enslaved people in Confederate states currently in rebellion "are, and henceforward shall be free".
- 22. 16th president of the United States.
- 24. A prominent Confederate general who commanded the Army of Northern Virginia.
- 25. Served as the "eyes and ears" of Robert E. lee.
- 27. A 1861 Union strategy designed by General Winfield Scott to suppress the Confederacy by strangling its economy through a naval blockade of southern ports and seizing control of the Mississippi River to split the South.
- 28. Confederate forces bombarded and captured the Federal fort in Charleston Harbor, South Carolina.
- 30. The Union Navy's first ironclad warship.
- 31. Union naval commander and the first U.S. Navy Admiral.
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- 1. Earned his nickname "Lion of Little Round Top" for his pivotal defense of the Union flank at the Battle of Gettysburg.
- 3. Nicknamed sideburns, and remembered for his controversial leadership.
- 4. The war where Ulysses S. Grant besieged the Confederate fortress city in Mississippi. Its surrender on July 4th gave the Union full control of the Mississippi River, splitting the Confederacy in two.
- 5. This Major union general had a very dysfunctional relation ship with the president once one asked "if you aren't using the army can I borrow it?", Jackson fired him twice and this person confidentially called president Jackson a "gorilla".
- 8. A series of Civil War battles in Northwest Georgia, where Union Major General William T. Sherman’s forces maneuvered and fought against Confederate, destroying a vital Confederate supply hub, boosting Northern morale, and ensuring President Lincoln's re-election.
- 9. The deadliest single-day battle in American history, with over 23,000 casualties.
- 10. Revolutionized naval warfare as the first duel between ironclad warships.
- 14. A battle in Tennessee where Union forces under General Ulysses S. Grant defeated a Confederate surprise attack, this battle had over 23000 casualties.
- 17. Acquiring the nickname "stonewall" in the first battle of bull run.
- 18. A historic town in central Virginia, renowned as the site where Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered to Union General Ulysses S. Grant on April 9, 1865, effectively ending the Civil War.
- 19. A union general who pushed the final campaigns that resulted in Robert E. Lees surrender.
- 20. A Confederate prisoner-of-war camp in Georgia, held over 45,000 Union soldiers. Known for extreme overcrowding, lack of food, and horrific conditions, nearly 13,000 prisoners died. It was the deadliest prison of the war, serving as a powerful symbol of suffering and, eventually, a testament to the prisoners' resilience.
- 23. A key Confederate Lieutenant General and Robert E. Lee’s trusted second-in-command, famously nicknamed "my old war horse". As leader of the Corps in the Army of Northern Virginia.
- 26. Had two major nickname's in the civil war, one of which was "Rock of chickamauga" because of his stubborn defense.
- 29. A West Point graduate and Mexican-American War veteran, he was nicknamed "Fighting Joe".