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War Final Ppl end
War Review for the Final of people in the last two years of the war
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Naval commander who won the battle of Mobile Bay and leading through the mines there | David Farragut |
| New York newspaper editor who tried to negotiate peace with the Confederates at Niagara Falls in 1864 | Horace Greeley |
| Confederate cavalry leader accused of atrocities against black soldiers at Fort Pillow | Nathan Bedford Forrest |
| Confederate commander who surrendered at Vicksburg | John C. Pemberton |
| Commander of Union river fleet in the Vicksburg campaign | David Dixon Porter |
| Union general blamed for letting Lee escape across the Potomac after Gettysburg | George B. Meade |
| Union general who maneuvered the Army of the Cumberland to push the Confederate army to Chattanooga and then into Georgia. Unfortunately, he lost the battle of Chickamauga and was then removed from command | William Rosecrans |
| Prickly Confederate general who won the battle of Chickamauga but couldn't build on that success and lost at Chattanooga | Braxton Bragg |
| Union general who held back the Confederates for a time at Chickamauga and whose men made an amazing assault on Missionary Ridge | George Thomas |
| General put in charge of the Union cavalry in 1864 | Philip Sheridan |
| Union general who was supposed to cut off Lee's communications in the Shenandoah Valley but who failed miserably | Franz Sigel |
| Union colonel who devised an assault at the Mule Shoe to break through theConfederate trenches at Spotsylvania | Emory Upton |
| Confederate general who kept retreating in the face of Sherman's advances in Georgia. He was ultimately replaced for a more aggressive general | Joseph E. Johnston |
| Confederate general who was defeated in Georgia and then retreated into Tennessee where he was defeated at the battle of Franklin | John Bell Hood |
| Ohio politician who was leader of Copperheads and was arrested by General Burnside | Clement Vallandigham |
| Governor of North Carolina who protested the Confederate government's suspension of habeas corpus | Zebulon Vance |
| He earned the nickname, "Beast," for his governorship of New Orleans and by the infamous "Woman Order?" Also, in the orders for Union advance in the Spring of 1964, he got "bottled up" and was no help to Grant | Benjamin Butler |
| U. S. Ambassador to Great Britain during the Civil War | Charles Francis Adams |
| Puppet ruler whom Napoleon III tried to put on the throne in Mexico during the Civil War | Maximilian |
| Colonel who led the Massachusetts 54th in their assault on Fort Wagner | Robert Gould Shaw |
| Vice President of the Confederacy who opposed Davis's conduct of the war | Alexander Stephens |
| Unionist leader in North Carolina who ran for governor on a peace platform, but lost | William W. Holden |
| Military governor of Louisiana who was not able to carry out Lincoln's hopes for an election there that would elect a legislature that would support emancipation. He also led an ineffectual military campaign along the Red River and never carried out Gran | Nathaniel Banks |
| Secretary of the Treasury who had ambitions to be president but never achieved those ambitious. He was later appointed Chief Justice of the Supreme Court to follor Roger B. Taney | Salmon P. Chase |
| Democratic candidate for president in 1864 | George B. McClellan |
| Former candidate for president who was the focus of a brief movement to oppose Lincoln for the Republican nomination in 1864 by abolitionists and some German-Americans | John C. Fremont |
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