Civil War Vocab Recovery

Union strategy during the Civil War which incorporated a plan to blockade Southern ports and capture the Mississippi River. It was called the Anaconda Plan as the strategy resembled an anaconda squeezing its prey to death.

• Andersonville

• Union Blockade

• Blockade Runners

• Anaconda Plan

infamous Civil War prisoner-of-war camp in Macon County, Georgia. Over 13,000 Union soldiers died in the camp.

• Antietam

• Andersonville

• Chickamauga

• Gettysburg

a series of battles fought in the Western Theater of the American Civil War throughout northwest Georgia and the area around Atlanta during the summer of 1864; a Union military campaign led by William T. Sherman from May 1864-September 1864 with the Atlanta as the ultimate objective;

• March to the Sea

• William T. Sherman

• Atlanta Campaign

• Andersonville

Union victory; bloodiest one-day battle in the War.

• Gettysburg

• Chickamauga

• Bull Run

• Antietam

Union victory; turning point of the Civil War; the North repelled a Southern invasion into Pennsylvania.

• Antietam

• Gettysburg

• Chickamauga

• Atlanta

Confederate victory; largest battle fought in Georgia; led to the battle of Chattanooga.

• Antietam

• Chickamauga

• Atlanta

• Gettysburg

Union victory; this one day battle allowed Union forces to inch closer to the city in the Atlanta Campaign; was not the battle that allowed Union Troops to occupy the city.

• Battle of Atlanta

• Atlanta Campaign

• March to the Sea

• William T. Sherman

private Southern ships that attempted to “break” the Union blockade and trade cotton with European countries for manufactured goods.

• Union Blockade

• Blockade runners

• Scorched Earth policy

• Anaconda Plan

document that declared all slaves in the rebellious states would be freed if the South did not return to the Union by January 1, 1863.

• Scorched Earth Policy

• March to the Sea

• Andersonville

• Emancipation Proclamation

Union military campaign led by William T. Sherman from November 15-December 25, 1864 with Savannah being the ultimate objective; more importantly Sherman used a “scorched earth” policy to end the South’s will to fight.

• March to the Sea

• Atlanta Campaign

• Scorched Earth Policy

• Andersonville