Civil War Vocabulary

An American statesman and politician who served as President of the Confederate States of American.

Federal fort in the harbor of Charleston, South Carolina.

• Fort Bragg

• Fort Sumter

• Fort Mims

• Fort Liberty

Northern Civil War strategy to starve the South by blockading seaports and controlling the Mississippi River

Lost battle vs. General Lee near the Chesapeake Bay; Lincoln fired him twice.

• George B. McClellan

• Robert E. Lee

• Jefferson Davis

• Theodore Roosevelt

An 1862 Civil War battle in Tennessee that ended in a Union victory.

• Battle of Little Big Horn

• Battle of Waterloo

• Battle of Shiloh

• Battle of Gettysburg

Proclamation issued by Lincoln, freeing all slaves in areas still at war with the Union.

Compulsory enlistment for state service, typically into the armed forces.

1863, Union gains control of Mississippi, confederacy split in two, Grant takes lead of Union armies, total war begins

• Battle of Waterloo

• Battle of Vicksburg

• Siege of Yorktown

• Battle of Gettysburg

(1863) a speech given by Abraham Lincoln after the Battle of Gettysburg.

U.S. Army officer who became a general in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. He is best remembered for his participation in the futile and bloody assault at the Battle of Gettysburg that bears his name.