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