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2. A common food for soldiers was called what? It was a stew of small cubes of beef and crumbled corn bread mixed with bacon grease.
5. Who said,"It does not seem to me if I were living in the country in which I was born?"
7. Which state voted against secession by a vote 53 to 13.
8. In March 1864, President Lincoln appointed who the hero of the Battle of Vicksburg?
9. Where Grant earned the name "Unconditional surrender."
10. By 1863 there was so shortage of fodd that women and children would storm stores for what?
12. Clusters of white buildings and tents marked the presence of who?
13. The largest Civil War Battle in North Carolina.
14. What was the worst Confederate prison?
15. Hygeine and nursing did not reach this place very often.
17. What is aother word for "conscription?"
19. This Texas harbor city fell to the Confederates in January 1863.
23. a draft that would force certain members of the population to serve in the army.
26. Final defeat for Hood in 1864
27. On one occassion, what went through Clara Barton's sleeve, killing the soldier she was helping?
28. He was the commanding general who attcked Washington D.C.
29. The Civil War had a profound impact on the nation's what?
30. When the Confederate fired on Fort Sumter, the shot was probably fired feom this island.
32. The Emancipation Proclamation aimed for states in what?
33. Who became the first woman nurse?
35. What woman nurse cared for sick and wounded soldiers on the front lines?
37. This man owned the "surrender house" at appornattury.
39. What helped to show considerable improvement in the decline of the death rate among union wounded?
41. Wester general brougyht to D.C by Lincoln to oversee all Army operations.
44. The first few days in May of 1863, the south was beating the north in what Virginia town?
48. He led the Union attack against Jackson at Fredericksburg.
50. Who said,"If slaves will make good soldiers our whole theory of slavery is wrong."
51. Lincoln was loaded onto a funeral train that carried him back to where?
54. general pemberton's greatest defeat.
56. African Americans were offen assigned here. Where they caught many dieases.
57. The Battle of Shilon was faught in this southern state.
60. For decades the North and South had been at odds concernng states' rights and slavery. After President Lincoln's election, this number of states seceded from the Union?
63. On November 24th. General Hooker's men stormed this stronghold near Chattanooga, TN.
65. Cleevrne and six others were killed here.
66. Soldiers were sent off from there communities with the bands playing this song.
67. In 1863 congress enacted the tax law that authorized the nations first what?
68. Who was the future Court Justice that was wounded during the Battle at Antietam?
69. While the Union was pushing deeper into confederate territory, southern plantions owners fled while many slaves to welcome who?
70. Battlefield includes missionary Ridge. Lootout Mountain.
71. Lee and Grant met to arrange a Confederate surrender of April 6, 1865 at which courthouse?
72. A court oder that requires authorities to bring a person held in jail before the court to determine why he or she is being jailed.

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1. The second great battle of the Civil War.
3. The blame for the conditions at Andersonville prison was put on whaat commander?
4. Supposedly when Lincoln died, this man said," Now he belongs to the ages,"
6. Union secretary of war.
11. Confederate commander at Chickamauge and Chattanaoga.
14. They were the most edger to go out and serve, but they were always sent home
16. In 1859, Robert E. Lee was sent to stop abolitionist John Brown, who tried to start an uprising of Virginia slaves near where?
18. Picacho Peak occured in which present state?
20. At Petersburg, this general was killed on April 2nd while trying to reach his troops.
21. This state was admitted to the union on June 20th
22. Stonewell captures 20,000 union soldiers here in 1862.
24. Battle also know as the Battle of Fleetwood Hill
25. The battles of Mansfield and Pleastant Hill happened in this state?
31. Union Gerneral killed by a sniper at Spotsylvania court house.
34. Lincoln's fist task as president to get control of his own what?
36. Confederate for that protected the port of Wilminaton, NC.
38. Famous commander of the Wolverines.
40. In what community did women orangize a counrtywide system to send clothing, blankets, bandages, and other supplies to local soldiers
42. When as the turning point in the war?
43. In march of 1862, Grant gathered his troops near a small church named what?
44. Who wrote."the Passing of the Armies?"
45. While the white men were doing what the owners would hire free blacks, immigrants, women, and boys to replace them.
46. On January 1, 1863 Lincoln issued what Proclamation?
47. What is the capital of Confederacy?
49. On April 14th, Lincoln and his wife saw this play at Ford's Theater.
52. The first Battle of Bull Run, the Civil War's first major land battle, took place in this southern state.
53. The union would only accepted what color of soldiers?
55. Who was the featured speaker at the dedication of the National cemetery at gettysburg, November 1863?
58. Shiloh is Hebrew for place of what?
59. This Act set up a system of federal chartered banks, loans, and provided banks to be inspected?
61. Where was President Lincoln assassinated
62. Slave resistance gradually weakened what system?
64. Wealthy citizens of Washington D.C traveled to the battlefield at Bull Run to pinic and watch what was supposed to be a Union victory. But it ended up being a what retreat?