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- battle of antiam
- one of the most imporant battles of the war. mclellan'f union forces managed to find lees batt;e plans, so they defeated lee. not actually a victory, it stopped the to-that-point triumphant southern march forward. was in 1862. gave lincoln opportunity to decree emancipation proclamation.
- george g. meade
- replaced hooker, who replaced burnsides, who replaced mcclellan as leader of union forces.
- andrew johnson
- a war democrat from tennesee. lincoln's running mate.
- army of the potomac
- another name for the large union force near washgington
- copperheads
- radical peace democrats who protested the war, lincoln, and the emancipation.
- battle of gettysburg
- meades 92 thousand fought lees 76 thousand. a total slaughter. union technically won, but it was a loss for both sides. fought 4 three days.
- a.e. burnsides
- launched a rashfull-frontal attack on lee at fredricksurg, va in dec. of 1862. he replaced mecellan. he led his men to slaughter.
- assult on cold harbor
- in 1864, grant ordered a full frontal assult on cold harbor. he knew many men would die, but the south was so out numbered that they still lost, though they slaughtered many.
- second battle of bull run
- where robert e lee defeated john pope. strategically decisive in that lee thought he could use it to convince MD into seceding.
- john pope
- a union general. a proud man, robert e lee crushed him.
- the seven days battle
- june 26 to july 2, a counterattack against the union forces, led by mcclellan, trying to capture richmond. drove union forces back to sea.
- the monitor
- a tinu union ironclad ship that fought the merrimack to a standstill and preserved the blockade.
- union party
- formed by a union of war democrats and republicans. temporarly put the republican party out of existance.
- confiscation act
- in 1861, congress declared in this act that rebel property used in the was effort could be conficated. a second act punished trators that their slaves would be set forever free.
- robert e. lee
- southern general form virginia. greatly helped the south, very sucssful. notably, he stopped mcclellan from capturing Richmond.
- total war
- an union battle plan, practiced by sherman, where the union would destroy the south, including civilian property, to accheive victory. a cowardly move.
- the merrimack
- a confederate threat to the union blockade. they took the merrimack and put iron on its sides, named it the virginia, and tried to blast through the blockade.
- appomattox courthouse
- the site of southern surrender. in 1865 grant cornered lee here and gave him generous terms of surrender- it effectivly ended the war.
- william sherman
- union general. captured and burned atlanta, with the exception of one cathlic church, in 1864. a practicioner of total war.
- ulysses s. grant
- brilliant general, horrible president. his first sucess was in the northern tenn. area. a failure at almost everything, he ended up leading the uinion to victory.
- the peninsula campaign
- a new strategy of mcclellan's, where he tried to get to richmond by means of a water route. it lies at the base of a narrow penninsula forme by the james and york rivers.
- george b. mcclellan
- in 186, he was given command of union forces. superb organizer and drillmaster idolized by his men, he never wontonly sacrificed them. but he was a perfectionist and he was over cautious.
- emancipation proclimation
- lincoln declared that all slaves in confederate states were freed. was not even enforced in border states, for fear that they would seceed.