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The Sec. of War under Peirce |
Davis |
The opposite of war is calm like who? |
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Lee and Grant both served under him in the Mexican War. |
Scott |
Mexicans steriotipically do lawn work. What is a popular lawn feeder brand? |
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He was the Superintendent at West Point. |
Lee |
He was a very smart also a goody two shoes. |
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He captured Brown at Harper's Ferry. |
Lee |
Accomplished Soldier. |
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He hated the discipline of the military. |
Grant |
Kind of a bad as who bent the rules. |
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He was the president of the Confederacy. |
Davis |
Class president. |
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He was a not formally educated politician. |
Lincoln |
Ironic as a school is named after him |
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He was Lee's top assistant |
Jackson |
Ironic that a stone wall has friends |
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He was in charge of the Confederate cavalry |
Stuart |
I have no hint |
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he was in charge of the Confederate artillery |
Longstreet |
What did they have to roll the heavy weapons down ? |
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He was in charge of guerrilla warfare |
Mosby |
This character and see Life of Zack and Cody kind of look like a monkey |
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These states stayed in the Union but still have slavery ( official title) |
Border states |
When you can't decide between two things you are on the blank of a decision |
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This was an important railroad center between Richmond and Washington DC |
Manassas |
This word rhymes with another word that is associated with being slow the term being as slow as blank kind of funny that is a railroad center. |
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There were spectators at this battle |
The first battle of Bull Run |
Why would you sit next to a battle titled with such a scary animal |
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Jackson earned his nickname from this battle |
The first battle of Bull Run |
It would be funny to see this animal run into a stone wall |
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These were the tactics used early on in the war |
Napoleonic |
Funny that America bought this man property but that we also used his war tactics |
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The 3 part strategy for victory in the Union |
1) blockade all southern ports 2) take the Mississippi and Tennessee rivers 3) take Richmond as soon as possible |
1) this plan is often used in battles also very effective 2) obviously some of the men might get thirsty while they're fighting 3) why wouldn't the North want to take the South's capital |
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This Union general won a series of battles Out West |
Grant |
Of course he did he's a badass |
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This battle was named after a church |
Shiloh |
Ironic that this is one of the bloodiest battles but is named after a church |
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He was the slow and cautious general |
McClellan |
ironic that my doctor has the same name and he is also slow and cautious |
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The name of the Union ironclad |
The USS Monitor |
I mean the next did have a better vantage point it was obviously easier to SEE everything |
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The name of the Confederate ironclad |
The Merrimack |
I have no clue what I meant to put but it kind of sounds like Mac and Cheese I guess that's kind of Southern |
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This was the first submarine ever sink a ship |
HL Hunley |
It may have sunk a ship but it also suck its self and took a lot of tests ships that also sunk and lots of dead people which doesnt sound so great. but other than that I don't really have a clue for the name kinda sounds like Hensley but Hensley isn't really anything to do with the submarine lol |
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this is the battle that we lost his battle plan |
The Second Battle of Bull Run |
You must have thrown them away with the red flag |
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The 12 bloodiest hours of American history |
The Battle of Antietam |
That's weird ants don't draw blood when they bite you |
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He wanted to build a pontoon bridge over the river at Fredericksburg |
Burnside |
They could just use his sideburns as rafts |
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He was killed at Chancellorsville |
Stonewall Jackson |
It's sad he got shot by one of his own men |
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He was the Union general at Gettysburg |
Meade |
Ironic that a kind of unknown general was the general for such a remembered war |
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The reason the Confederacy went to Gettysburg |
It was rumored a shipment of shoes had just come in |
Ironic that a big group of men were acting like a bunch of girls |
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let the famous charge of Gettysburg |
Pickett |
Gettysburg was kind of a picket fence war |
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This document declared all slaves free |
The 13th amendment |
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This battle was the turning point of the war |
Gettysburg |
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Grant had cut all of the supplies to starve the civilians at this place |
Vicksburg |
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where the Massachusetts 54th led the attack |
Fort Wagner |
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This word means river of death |
Chickamauga |
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The union general that lead a march third georgia |
Grant |
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This was the name of the famous Confederate prisoners of war camp |
Andersonville Prison |
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Where the Confederacy finally surrendered |
Appomattox Courthouse |
This is also where the Civil War started |
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This is the building Lincoln was assassinated |
The Ford's Theater |
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He assassinated Lincoln |
John Wilkes Booth |
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Lincoln's famous speech |
The Gettysburg Address |
Four score and seven years ago |
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This amendment banded slavery |
The 13th amendment |
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they used these to direct artillery fire |
Hot air balloons |
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