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15 Cards in this Set
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William Sherman
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Union General, led the march to the sea(Atlanta to atlantic ocean) perfect ending to Civil
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Clara Barton
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➢One of the first female clerks in Washington, left her job to help injured troops
➢Indentified thousands of graves at the pow camp Andersonville in Georgia ➢Founded Red Cross in 1877 |
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Matthew Brady
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Pioneer photographer, risked his life to take pics to show reality of war
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Winfield Scott
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➢Commander of US army
➢Offered a blockade in e South to seize NO and MISS river |
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David Farrgot
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➢Took New Orleans and shut off Confederate supplies from the Gulf
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Stonewall Jackson
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➢“hard-driving” Southern General, who got his nickname for his firm stand at the battle of bull run “give me 500 men and ill be in Washington tomorrow”
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Border States
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➢States neither loyal to Union or Confederacy, caused the writ of habeas corpus
➢Maryland decided the fate of Washington ➢If Missouri and Kentucky seceded the Confederate border would push to the Ohio river ➢In Missouri he moved swiftly to seize control and in Kentucky slowly to allow Union sentiment to develop |
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Habeas Corpus
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➢Gives a judge the power to free a person who is being held illegally or w/o a just cause,
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What happened at NO(Mississippi River)
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Union General Farragut, raced past two forts, sunk 11 ships and took the city of New Orleans in one swoop and the south could now not revieve supplies coming from the Gulf
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Vicksburg
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Fort that controlled by mississippii river. Taken by Grant on the same day of lee’s retreat at Gettysburg, gave union 50,00 small arms and 30,000 pow’s
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Lincolns: anaconda plan
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Circled south cut off trade route
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Weapons
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➢ Rifle:
o given name, because the barell was “rifiled”-cut with spiral grooves o bullet left barell spinning, giving it longer range and more accuracy o used fulminate enclosed in ammo to make the explosion that sent the bullet o breech-loaders: loaded quickly |
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Emancipation Proclamation
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➢ freed slaves in states in rebellion, in England had a serious effect, killed any chance of support on Confederacy
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Abolitionist
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person seeking legal end to slavery
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Jefferson Davis
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Confederate President
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