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20 Cards in this Set
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Which Northern general was a great army organizer but not anxious to commit to battle?
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George McClellan
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Which Northern leader became president of the United States in 1861?
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Abraham Lincoln
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Who stated that "war is all hell"?
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William Tecumseh Sherman
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Who was a black leader who wanted full civil rights for former slaves?
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Frederick Douglass
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Who ran for president of the United States as the Democratic candidate in 1864?
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George McClellan
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Which victory signaled the end of the Confederacy and helped Abraham Lincoln win relection?
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Atlanta
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Who was called the "Angel of the Battlefield"?
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Clara Barton
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Who attacked a government weapons storehouse at Harpers Ferry in 1859?
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John Brown
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Who became the commander in chief of all Union armies after his victory at Vicksburg?
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Ulysses S. Grant
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Which general had been a failure at everything before the war?
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Ulysses S. Grant
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Who was president of the Confederate States of America?
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Jefferson Davis
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What military leader stood like a stone wall at the First Battle of Bull Run?
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Thomas Jackson
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Which officer once divided his men and had them charge both ways when surrounded by Union troops?
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Nathan Bedford Forrest
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Which Confederate soldier was cautious and wanted to use a defensive strategy at Gettysburg?
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James Longstreet
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To whom did Abraham Lincoln first offer command of the Northern armies?
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Robert E. Lee
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Which Confederate cavalry officer was called "The Gray Ghost"?
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John Singleton Mosby
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Who led raids against Union forces in Kentucky, Tennessee, Mississippi, Indiana, and Ohio?
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John Hunt Morgan
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Which Confederate leader had once been secretary of war and a U.S. senator?
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Jefferson Davis
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Which Confederate cavalry leader said that he got there "fustest with the mostest"?
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Nathan Bedford Forrest
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How do soldiers in the cavalry fight?
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on horseback
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