Chapter 11: The Civil War Begins

Fort Sumner

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Confederate attacked the Union their fort in South Carolina. This was the first actual battle & marked the start of the Civil War. (no casualties)

anaconda plan

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Union plan to block all of the Confederate's resources, strangling them economically by taking over water ways with the navy. (suffocate them to surrender)

Bull Run

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1st real battle, Confederate victory, Washingtonian spectators gather to watch battle, Gen. Jackson stands as Stonewall and turns tide of battle in favor of Confederates, realization that war is not going to be quick and easy for either side

Stonewall Jackson

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general in the Confederate Army during the Civil War whose troops at the first Battle of Bull Run stood like a stone wall (1824-1863)

George McClellan

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General of the Union Army; fired by Lincoln for being too cautious

Ulysses S. Grant

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an American general and the eighteenth President of the United States (1869-1877). He achieved international fame as the leading Union general in the American Civil War. (defeated Lee's army and won many battles)

David G. Farragut

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Navy Commander who was In charge of seizing New Orleans, which was the Confederacy's largest city and busiest port (successful in doing so)

Robert E. Lee

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A General for the confederates, fought many battles. One of his main plans towards the end of the civil war was to wait for a new president to come into office to make peace with. Fought Peninsular Campaign, 2nd battle of Bull Run, Antietam, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville (with Jackson), and Gettysburg.

Antietam

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the first major battle in the American Civil War to take place on Northern soil. It was the bloodiest single-day battle in American history, with almost 23,000 casualties. After this "win" for the North, Lincoln announced the Emancipation Proclamation

Emancipation Proclamation

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Issued by abraham lincoln on september 22, 1862 it declared that all slaves in the confederate states would be free