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Battle of Shiloh?
1862, were the confederates snuck up on Grant making a bloody war of 25,000 casualties
The union then takes over what bug city in the south?
New Orleans
The union puts him in charge?
Bengimum Butler
what did this guy do that was bad?
he put curfues on the people, and shortend food and water
McDowell was fired as who was hired?
McClellan- wasnt good general
Then McClellan opposes his idea to?
to capture Richmond by going up the Virginia penisula
there was only 5,000 confederates but they?
march in circles making him think there millions
they march until the army gets there and thus begins the?
Seven Day Battle
Battle?
fight seven days to shuve the union army back to washington
They fired McClellan and hire?
Pope
In 1862 another battle?
Battle of 2nd Mansas, Lee destroys Pope
Lee invades the north to?
gain help from Europe
Unio sub?
Called Monitor, go is in 360 degrees, and small
Confederates?
called Virginia, built from U.S.S. Marrimack, bigger
fired Pope?
hired back McClellan
Sept. 17, 1862 begin?
Battle of Antietam
Antietam?
bloodiest day in american history, draw and 25,000 casualties
emancipation proclamation?
al slaves in the seceding states will be free on Jan. 1, 1863
emancipation proclamation made?
the war a higher level it allows teh blacks to serve in the war
fired McClellan?
hired burnside
Fredricksburg?
lee defeats burside as he marchs up the hill and lee destroys them
fired Burnside hires?
Hooker
Chancellorsville?
confederate generals are shot when they go to scout they came back on the battle field and the confederates thought they were enemy and fired at them
Jackson was one that died burried his left arm?
on the battle field
Hooker fired hires?
Meade
Copperheads?
northern poloticians who apposed the war, called copperheads because carried copper pens
Battle of Gettysburg?
July 1-3, 1863, turning point of the war
Picketts charge?
12,000 confederates attack the center on the union army, greattest cannon aid
July 1862?
Grant captures Vicksburg important because the Mississippi is under union control
1864?
Lincoln brings grant east to face lee
Wilderness?
Union-18,000 Conf.-9,000
won-conf
Spotsylvania Court House?
Union-19,000 Conf.-9,000
won-conf.
Cold harbor?
Union-7,000 Conf.-2,000
won-conf.
even thought he was winning battles, why wosn't he winning the war?
he was losing people that couldnt be replaced
Election of 1864?
Lincoln and McClellan
*Sherman captures Atlanta- this helped Lincoln win election
Shermans march?
sherman's army destroyed anything the confederates could use to make war from Atlanta to Savannah
Lee Surendered when and where?
Appamatix Court House on April 9, 1865
Lincoln Assassination?
April 14, 1865
Lincoln and his wife Mary go to see a play, Grant was supose to go, but officers goes with him