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12 Cards in this Set
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Fort Sumter
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a third system masonry sea fort located in the Charleston Harbor, South Carolina- the fort where the spree of violence happen in regards to civil war.
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April 12, 1861
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the start of the Civil war.
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Major Robert Anderson |
was a US army officer during the Civil War, and was remembered for upholding Union honor in the first battle of the American Civil War. |
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Emancipation Proclamation 1863 |
a document issued by Abraham Lincoln, stating that all slaves are now free. |
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The First Battle of Bull Run (Manassas Junction) |
was fought on July 21, 1861, in Prince William County, Virginia, near the city of Manassas, not far from Washington, D.C. It was the first major battle of the American Civil War. |
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Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson |
A Confederate general who worked under Robert E. Lee and was in the Valley Campaign of 1862. |
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Robert E. Lee |
He was the commander of the confederate troops. |
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George B. McClellan |
The man that organized the army of Potomac. |
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Army of the Potomac |
The major Union Army in the Eastern Theater of the American Civil War. |
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Army of Northern Virginia |
The most successful Confederate army during the American Civil War |
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Sharpsburg (Antietam) |
where Generals Robert E. Lee and George McClellan faced off in the the first battle of the American Civil War to be fought on northern soil. |
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Bloody Lane |
was site to some of the fiercest fighting in the Battle of Antietam |
