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