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conscription

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compulsory enlistment for state service, typically into the armed forces

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Strengths of the Confederacy

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Knew the land very well, fighting defensively, strong military generals

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William Tecumseh Sherman

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Union General who destroyed South's will to fight during "March to the Sea" from Atlanta to Savannah and then through South Carolina

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Stonewall Jackson

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Lee's right hand man; killed by friendly fire at the Battle of Chancellorsville

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Vicksburg

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Grant besieged the city from May 18 to July 4, 1863, until it surrendered, yielding command of the Mississippi River to the Union.

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total war

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a strategy of bringing war to the entire society, not just the military

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Emancipation Proclamation

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presidential proclamation and executive order declaring "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states "are, and henceforward shall be free"

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Battle of Chancellorsville

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A major battle in the American Civil War, the Confederates under Robert E. Lee defeated the Union forces under Joseph Hooker.However, General Jackson died after being shot by friendly fire.

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Robert E. Lee

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A former U.S. general that headed the Confederate army after Virginia seceded.

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Antietam

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A battle near a sluggish little creek, it proved to be the bloodiest single day battle in American History with over 26,000 lives lost in that single day.

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Gettysburg Address

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- dedicated to the proposition that "all men are created equal" - "these honored dead...gave the last full measure of devotion" - "the nation, shall have a new birth of freedom"

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Fort Sumter

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Federal fort in the harbor of Charleston, South Carolina; the confederate attack on the fort marked the start of the Civil War

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Anaconda Plan

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- military strategy proposed by Union General Winfield Scott early in the American Civil War - called for a naval blockade of the Confederate littoral, a thrust down the Mississippi, and the strangulation of the South by Union land and naval forces

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Strengths of the Union

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Twice as many railroads as the South, larger population, rise of industry

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Copperheads

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a group of northern Democrats who opposed abolition and sympathized with the South during the Civil War

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Battle of Gettysburg

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July 1-3, 1863; turning point of the Civil War

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Ulysses S. Grant

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- He achieved international fame as the leading Union general in the American Civil War. - eighteenth President of the United States (1869-1877)

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Andersonville

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- Confederate prison camp for Union soldiers in Georgia - food shortages, overcrowding, and disease killed about 100 men a day during the summer months

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Bull Run

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1st real battle, Confederate victory, Washingtonian spectators gather to watch battle, Gen. Jackson stands as Stonewall and turns tide of battle in favor of Confederates, realization that war is not going to be quick and easy for either side

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George McClellan

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American army general put in charge of Union troops and later removed by Lincoln for failure to press Lee's Confederate troops in Richmond

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Civil War

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A war between people of the same country; occurred in the U.S. from 1861 to 1865

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Monitor v. Merrimack

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- First engagement between ironclad ships; - fought at Hampton Roads, VA, on March 9, 1862. - this battle ended wooden ship warfare

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Appomattox Court House

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Famous as the site of the surrender of the Confederate Army under Robert E. Lee to Union commander Ulysses S. Grant

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Clara Burton

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- "angel of the battlefield" - Launched the American Red Cross in 1881

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Fort Pillow

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- Tennessee site where more than 300 black Union soldiers were massacred after their surrender - The Confederate refusal to treat these troops as traditional prisoners of war infuriated the North, and led to the Union's refusal to participate in prisoner exchanges

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