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