Military Leaders 1864
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| Naval commander who won the battle of Mobile Bay and leading through the mines there | David Farragut
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| New York newspaper editor who tried to negotiate peace with the Confederates at Niagara Falls in 1864 | Horace Greeley
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| Confederate cavalry leader accused of atrocities against black soldiers at Fort Pillow | Nathan Bedford Forrest
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| Confederate commander who surrendered at Vicksburg | John C. Pemberton
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| Commander of Union river fleet in the Vicksburg campaign | David Dixon Porter
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| Union general blamed for letting Lee escape across the Potomac after Gettysburg | George B. Meade
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| 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
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| Prickly Confederate general who won the battle of Chickamauga but couldn't build on that success and lost at Chattanooga | Braxton Bragg
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| Union general who held back the Confederates for a time at Chickamauga and whose men made an amazing assault on Missionary Ridge | George Thomas
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| General put in charge of the Union cavalry in 1864 | Philip Sheridan
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| Union general who was supposed to cut off Lee's communications in the Shenandoah Valley but who failed miserably | Franz Sigel
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| Union colonel who devised an assault at the Mule Shoe to break through the Confederate trenches at Spotsylvania | Emory Upton
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| 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
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| Confederate general who was defeated in Georgia and then retreated into Tennessee where he was defeated at the battle of Franklin | John Bell Hood
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