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CIVIL WAR STUDY GUIDE KEY
People To Know: Who were they and what did they do?
Abraham Lincoln – president of the Union; freed the slaves with the Emancipation
Proclamation; wanted to restore the Union; South Carolina seceded after he was elected.
Robert E. Lee – overall commander of the Confederacy; brilliant military mind; West
Point graduate; surrendered to Grant at Appomattox Courthouse.
Ulysses S. Grant – overall commander of the Union at war’s end.
William T. Sherman – Union general responsible for the burning of Atlanta and the
March to the Sea; gave Savannah to Lincoln as a “Christmas present.”
Jefferson Davis – president of the Confederacy.
Joe Johnston – replaced Gen. Bragg after Bragg failed to finish off Union troops after
the Battle of Chickamauga.
Alexander Stephens – Georgia congressman who opposed secession, but was made vice
president of the Confederacy after secession.
John Bell Hood – Confederate general during the Battle of Atlanta, which he lost.
Braxton Bragg – Confederate general who defeated the Union forces at the Battle of
Chickamauga, but failed to finish them off. Union general Grant returned with more
troops and drove Bragg and his troops further south into Georgia.
Pierre Beauregard – Confederate general from South Carolina who ordered the rebels to
fire on Ft. Sumter, thus starting the Civil War.
Battles To Know: Where, when and what happened?
Battle of Antietam – Union victory; bloodiest single day of the war (6,000 dead);
Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation after this battle.
Battle of Gettysburg – Union victory; Confederate troops were in Gettysburg, PA
raiding a supply of shoes; this three-day battle had the most casualties of any battle.
Battle of Chickamauga – Confederate victory; but Grant came back with more men and
pushed the Confederate troops into Georgia.
Battle of Atlanta – Union victory; Sherman then began his March to the Sea.
CIVIL WAR STUDY GUIDE KEY
Terms To Know:
Emancipation Proclamation – Lincoln’s document freeing the slaves; written after the
Battle of Antietam.
Conscription – also known as the draft, men were required to join the military during the
Civil War.
Naval Blockade – When the Union sent ships to block southern ports so they were
unable to import or export, further strangling the South’s economy.
Blockade Runners – Confederate ships that slipped through or around a blockade to
deliver messages, supplies, etc.
King Cotton Diplomacy – the South depended on Britain and France to help them in the
Civil War because of their business relationship in buying/selling cotton.
Underground Railroad – the system of pathways and safe houses used by slaves to
escape out of the South.
Places To Know: Explain the importance of each of these key places
Fort Sumter – the first shots of the Civil War occurred here.
Appomattox Court House – where Confederate Gen. Lee surrendered to Union Gen.
Grant, thus ending the Civil War on April 9, 1865.
Richmond, Virginia – capitol of the Confederacy during the Civil War.
Andersonville – located in SW Georgia, it was the location of the largest Confederate
prison during the war; it housed a total of 45,000 Union soldiers in its 14-month duration;
a total of 13,000 soldiers died there of starvation, disease and dysentery.