The Civil War Vocabulary

2. speech in which Lincoln praised the bravery of Union soldiers and renewed his commitment to winning the war
4. Union general whose troops won several important battles on southern soil and in the western campaign
8. Confederate general during many battles of the Civil War
9. ships that were heavily armored with iron
10. federal post in Charleston, SC that surrendered to the Confederacy, marking the beginning of the Civil War
11. Confederate plan to enlist England's aid in return for continued cotton shipments
12. order to free Confederate slaves
15. battle in Maryland that resulted in Lee's retreat to Virginia
16. Constitutional protection against unlawful imprisonment
19. the 54th Infantry, a unit of mostly free African American solders was from this state
22. strategy in which both civilian and military resources are destroyed
23. battle near Manassas Junction, VA, in 1861
24. the act of setting free
25. four slave states that bordered the North and did not join the Confederacy

1. key three-day battle that was a loss for the Confederates
3. ironclad ship and the Union's counter to the CSS Virginia
5. six-week blockade of Vicksburg that starved the city into surrender
6. the place where Robert E. Lee surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant
7. Confederate attack that helped push Union forces out of Virginia
13. series of battles in which Grant tried to take Richmond
14. series of battles that forced McClellan to retreat from near Richmond
17. battle in which Union troops gained greater control of the Mississippi River valley
18. formerly the abandoned Union warship USS Merrimack, it became the first ironclad ship
20. escaped slaves
21. nickname for the Peace Democrats, a group who spoke out against the war