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