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- 2. one of the advantages of the north.
- 3. final major military action in the vicksburg campaign.
- 4. another advantage of the north.
- 8. july 1st-3rd 1863 union leaders defended general lee. a turning point battle during the civil war.
- 11. a writ requiring a person under arrest to be brought before a judge or into court, especially to secure the person's release unless lawful grounds are shown for their detention.
- 14. president during the civil war.
- 16. during the civil war, the union came to mean the government and armies of the north.
- 18. a special order by president lincoln on January 1st, 1863 declaring slaves in confederate sates to be free
- 20. Maryland, September 16-18, 1862 bloodiest single day in American military history, 23,000 died.
- 21. general for the confederacy.
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- 1. South Carolina, April 12-14, 1861,start of the civil war.
- 5. the savannah campaign.
- 6. a change to the Constitution (1865) that abolished slavery in US (made it illegal)
- 7. general for the union later became 18th president.
- 9. was an American stage actor who assassinated President Abraham Lincoln at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C. on April 14, 1865.
- 10. president of the confederacy.
- 12. founded by clara barton in 1881.
- 13. separate from union.
- 14. one of the last battles of the civil war, April 9, 1865.
- 15. another name for the confederate states of america, made up of the 11 states that seceded from the union
- 17. the war that divides america in the 1860s.
- 19. Union strategy to conquer south.
