Union war plan by Winfield Scott, called for blockade of southern coast, capture of Richmond, capture Mississippi R, and to take an army through heart of south

First major battle of the Civil War

General in the Confederate army, led Confederate army in the 1st Battle of Bull Run

union general, 1st commander, overly cautious, fired by Lincoln

General of the Union Army and was responsible for winning the Civil War for the North

the second great battle of the American Civil War (1862)

Admiral of the Union Navy during the Civil War. Led the daring attack on New Orleans the led to the Union's control of the Mississippi River.

Confederate general who had opposed secession but did not believe the Union should be held together by force

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

President Lincoln declared that all enslaved people in the rebelling states would be free

Constitutional protection against unlawful imprisonment

A group of northern Democrats who opposed abolition and sympathized with the South during the Civil War

drafting into the military

money given as a reward, such as to encourage enlistment in the army

Confederate soldiers brutally maimed and massacred all the black Union soldiers who surrendered

Southern prison which treated Union soldiers so harshly that an average of 100 died each day. The commander of this camp was the only Confederate tried and executed for war crimes after the South lost.

Nurse during the Civil War; founder of the American Red Cross

turning point battle in the American Civil War, took place in southern Pennsylvania from July 1 to July 3, 1863.

A major battle in the American Civil War (1863), the Confederates under Robert E. Lee defeated the Union forces under Joseph Hooker. General Stonewall Jackson was killed by friendly fire.

Union General who destroyed South during "march to the sea" from Atlanta to Savannah, example of total war

a village in Virginia that was the site of the Confederate surrender to Union forces under the command of General Ulysses S. Grant

was an American stage actor who, as part of a conspiracy plot, assassinated Abraham Lincoln, the 16th President of the United States, at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C. on April 14, 1865.

Confederate and Union ironclads, respectively, whose successes against wooden ships signaled an end to wooden warships. They fought an historic, though inconsequential battle in 1862.

Federal abolition of slavery w/o compensation for slave-owners, except as punishment for a crime