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War Final Review People from the first year of the war

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Pro-Confederate guerrilla fighters   Bushwhackers  
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Pro-Union counterinsurgency fighters, especially in Kansas   Jayhawkers  
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Governor of Missouri with pro-Southern feelings who tried to get Missouri to secede   Claiborne Jackson  
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Leader of gang of bushwhackers in the Missouri area   William Quantrill  
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Governor of Kentucky who tried to keep Kentucky neutral through the summer of 1861   Beriah Magoffin  
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Southern commander who moved his troops into Columbus, Kentucky and thus made the Confederates seem to be the aggressor in Kentucky   Leonidas Polk  
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Commander of Illinois volunteers who moved troops into Kentucky after the Confederates did   Ulysses Grant  
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Had command of the Southern forces for the battle of First Bull Run and who planned an attack on the Federals' left flank   Pierre G. T. Beauregard  
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Union general who was in command at Fort Monroe and first determined that escaped slaves could be regarded as contraband of war   Benjamin Butler  
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Commanded the Union forces at First Bull Run   Irwin McDowell  
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Commanded the Southern forces in the Shenandoah before First Bull Run and brought them from the Valley by rail in time for the battle   Joseph E. Johnston  
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General who surrendered Fort Donelson to the Union army   Simon B. Buckner  
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Commanded the "lost division" at Shiloh who took the wrong road to help relieve Union forces fighting there   Lew Wallace  
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Former Secretary of War who commanded forces at Fort Donelson and escaped before the surrender   John Floyd  
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Confederate cavalry leader who led a "ride around" the Union troops in Virginia   J.E.B. Stuart  
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Union naval leader who captured New Orleans   David Farragut  
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Appointed in command of Missouri and issued a proclamation freeing the slaves there only to have Lincoln revoke the proclamation   John C. Fremont  
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Led a magnificent campaign in the Shenandoah Valley to clear the Union troops out of the Valley   Stonewall Jackson  
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Took over command of the Army of Northern Virginia to lead the South in the Seven Days Battle   Robert E. Lee  
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Union general who let the Confederates slip out of the Shenandoah Valley to reinforce the Southern armies for the battle of First Bull Run   Robert Patterson  
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Commander of the Union Department of the Missouri and then overall commander in the West   Henry Halleck  
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General who was placed in command of Union forces as well as made General-in-Chief after First Bull Run to organize and train the armies; Devised a strategy to turn the Confederate troops in Virginia by attacking from the South   George B. McClellan  
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Commanded Union forces in the Shenandoah who was defeated by the Confederates in 1862   Nathaniel Banks  
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Flag Officer in command of the gunboat fleet that helped capture Forts Henry and Donelson   Andrew H. Foote  
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Overall commander of Confederate forces in the West who made the mistake of adopting a passive defense and dispersing his forces, thus allowing them to be defeated serially; commanding general at Shiloh who died there   Albert Sidney Johnston  
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Bishop who also was a general and led the Confederate forces to take Columbus, Kentucky   Leonidas Polk  
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Shipbuilder who designed the Monitor   Ericsson  
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Second in command of the Southern forces at Fort Donelson who was convinced that the Southern forces should not complete their breakout attempt and who then escaped before the surrender   Gideon Pillow  
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Confederate general who fooled the Union army into thinking that the Confederates had many more forces on the York peninsula   John B. Magruder  
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Union commander of the Department of the Ohio who commanded the forces in Bowling Green and who showed up at the right moment at Shiloh   Don Carlos Buell  
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Union commander who led the forces that captured Forts Henry and Donelson and at Shiloh   Ulysses S. Grant  
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