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