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DSST Civil War: Names
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1. General of the Union army - ordered by Grant to wage total war in Shenandoah Valley in Virginia. He burned and destroyed all farmland - animals and food
General Sheridan
Abraham Lincoln
Robert Shaw
Clement Vallandigham
2. General of the Confederate army - worked closely with Robert E. Lee. He disagreed with Lee on Pickett's charge - but reluctantly gave the order to go ahead with it.
Jubal Early
John C. Fremont
General James Longstreet
General Pickett
3. Slave whose case led the Supreme court to declare the Missouri Compromise unconstitutional
Abraham Lincoln
Clement Vallandigham
Dred Scott
George McClellan
4. General of the Union Army - best remembered for his stunning defeat by Confederate General Robert E. Lee at the Battle of Chancellorsville in 1863.
General Hooker
Horace Greely
Clement Vallandigham
Captain Henry Wirz
5. General of the Union army at the Battle of Chickamauga
John Brown
General Rosecrans
Harriet Beecher Stowe
General Sherman
6. Author of a novel about slavery that advanced the abolitionists' cause
General Sheridan
General Burnside
Harriet Beecher Stowe
John Calhoun
7. Abolitionist who aided Garisson and helped him in abolition - denounced the president for being a first rate second rate man for delaying on the emacipation
John Calhoun
Henry Clay
Wendell Phillips
Clement Vallandigham
8. General-in-chief of the Union Army from 1864 to 1869 during the American Civil War.
General U.S. Grant
John Brown
Nathan Bedford Forrest
General Meade
9. Confederate Cavalry Commander - Battles: Shiloh - Vicksburg - Chickamauga - Atlanta - Savannah - Chattanooga - and Carolina Campaign - started the KKK
General U.S. Grant
Clara Barton
Nathan Bedford Forrest
Abraham Lincoln
10. General of the Union Army; fired by Lincoln for being too cautious - Peninsular campaign
George McClellan
General Sheridan
Nat Turner
John Brown
11. Abolitionist - escaped from slavery - great thinker and speaker - published his own antislavery newspaper and wrote an autobiography
Clara Barton
General Thomas Jackson
Frederick Douglass
General Buford
12. Abolitionist. Editor of radical abolitionist newspaper 'The Liberator' - and one of the founders of the American Anti-Slavery Society.
General Buford
General Sherman
William Lloyd Garrison
Harriet Tubman
13. General of the Confederate army - assaulted Grant at the battle of Shiloh. He dies at the battle because he was shot in the leg and cant feel it - and thus bleeds to death.
General A. S. Johnston
Wendell Phillips
General Sheridan
William Lloyd Garrison
14. Former slave who helped slaves escape on the Underground Railroad
General Joe Johnston
General Sheridan
Harriet Tubman
John Calhoun
15. Leader of a slave rebellion - but was found out by Charleston SC - arrested and executed
Dred Scott
Denmark Vessey
George McClellan
Clement Vallandigham
16. President of the Confederate States of America for its entire history from 1861 to 1865
General A. S. Johnston
Henry Clay
Robert Shaw
Jefferson Davis
17. Union Colonel in command the all black 54th Mass. regiment
Captain Henry Wirz
General Burnside
Denmark Vessey
Robert Shaw
18. General of the Union army - first to lead the union army into Gettysburg
Nathan Bedford Forrest
Clement Vallandigham
General Robert E. Lee
General Buford
19. Abolitionist who was hanged after leading an unsuccessful raid at Harper's Ferry - Virginia
William Lloyd Garrison
John Brown
George McClellan
Robert Shaw
20. Democratic party's nominee for pres. in 1864- lost to Lincoln
George McClellan
General Joe Johnston
William Lloyd Garrison
Denmark Vessey
21. Union commander of the 20th Maine - achieved fame during the Battle of Gettysburg for his defense of Little Round Top
Joshua Chamberlain
General A. S. Johnston
William Lloyd Garrison
Robert Shaw
22. General of the Confederate army - he refused Lincoln's offer to head the Union army and agreed to lead Confederate forces. He successfully led several major battles until his defeat at Gettysburg - and he surrendered to the Union's commander General
General Rosecrans
General Sheridan
General Robert E. Lee
Dred Scott
23. Senator who persuaded Congress to accept the Missouri Compromise - which admitted Maine into the Union as a free state - and Missouri as a slave state
General James Longstreet
Eli Whitney
John Brown
Henry Clay
24. General of the Union army at 2nd Battle of Bull Run; defeated; replaced by McClellan
Frederick Douglass
William H. Seward
General U.S. Grant
General Pope
25. General of the Union army - appointed general by Lincoln after firing McClellan
William Lloyd Garrison
General Burnside
Joshua Chamberlain
Eli Whitney
26. Invented the reaper - could harvest 6x more rain than men alone
Eli Whitney
Nat Turner
McCormick
Dred Scott
27. General of the Union army; surrounded and defeated Lee at Gettysburg
Captain Henry Wirz
General Meade
John Calhoun
General Pope
28. General of the Confederate army - attacked at Gettysburg with 15 -000 soldiers; called __________'s Charge; ended in faliure
John Brown
Horace Greely
General Sherman
General Pickett
29. Invented the cotton gin. Also contributed to the concept of interchangeable parts that were exactly alike and easily assembled or exchanged
William H. Seward
General Thomas Jackson
General Burnside
Eli Whitney
30. General of the Union army who captured Atlanta - Georgia - then marched through Georgia to the sea - burning and destroying everything on the way
Robert Shaw
General Sherman
McCormick
William Lloyd Garrison
31. Presidential nominee for Republicans in election of 1856
Denmark Vessey
Dred Scott
General Robert E. Lee
John C. Fremont
32. President of the United States saved the Union during the Civil War and emancipated the slaves; was assassinated by Booth
Clement Vallandigham
Wendell Phillips
Dred Scott
Abraham Lincoln
33. Confederate General; earned his nickname at the Battle of Bull Run. Robert E. Lee's 'right-hand man.' Died at Chancellorsville
John C. Fremont
General Thomas Jackson
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Clement Vallandigham
34. General of the Confederate army at 1st Battle of Bull Run and Peninsula Campaign. He surrendered to William Sherman on April 26th - 1865 in North Carolina.
George McClellan
General Thomas Jackson
General Joe Johnston
Captain Henry Wirz
35. Abolitionist newspaper publisher to whom Lincoln wrote a letter about wanting to resote the union - even if slavery had to continue.
George McClellan
General Sherman
Horace Greely
General Meade
36. South Carolina Senator - advocate for state's rights - limited government - and nullification
McCormick
Nat Turner
John Calhoun
Eli Whitney
37. Leader of a slave rebellion in 1831 in Virginia. Revolt led to the deaths of 20 whites and 40 blacks and led to the 'gag rule' outlawing any discussion of slavery in the House of Representatives
Eli Whitney
Nat Turner
George McClellan
Clement Vallandigham
38. Confederate: sent to sweep Union forces from the Valley and - if possible - to menace Washington - D.C. - hoping to compel Grant to dilute his forces against Lee around Petersburg - Virginia - terrorized D.C.
Captain Henry Wirz
Jubal Early
John Calhoun
Dred Scott
39. Ohio unionist of the Copperhead faction of anti-war - pro-Confederate Democrats
George McClellan
General Meade
General Rosecrans
Clement Vallandigham
40. Confederate commander who was executed for mistreatment of Union prisoners of war
Henry Clay
General Robert E. Lee
General James Longstreet
Captain Henry Wirz
41. Secretary of State under Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson
General Robert E. Lee
Eli Whitney
William H. Seward
McCormick
42. Launched the American Red Cross. An 'angel' in the Civil War - she treated the wounded in the field.
McCormick
John C. Fremont
Clara Barton
William H. Seward