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History Ch 16 people
Question | Answer |
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Clara Barton | the founder of the American Red Cross, obtained and administered supplies to the Union soldiers during the Civil war |
Copperheads | a group of northern democrats that opposed abolition and sympathized with the south during the civil war |
David Farragut | was an american soldier, he captured new orleans and maintained a blockade along the Gulf Coast against confederate forces |
Ulysses S. Grant | the 18th president of the U.S. |
54th Massachusetts Infantry | an African American civil war regiment that captured Fort Wagner in South Carolina |
Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson | an American confederate general, who led the Shenandoah Valley campaign and fought with lee in the seven days' battle and the 1st and 2nd battles of bull run |
Robert E. Lee | was an American soldier who refused Lincoln's offer to head the union army and agreed to lead the confederate forces |
George McClellan | an American army general put in charge of union troops and later removed by Lincoln for failure to press Lee's confederate troops in Richmond |
George Pickett | an American union general in the confederate army, he was famed for Pickett's charge, a failed but heroic effort at Cemetery ridge in the battle of Gettysburg |
Winfield Scott | American genera, he served as commander in the Mexican war and used a 2-part strategy against the south |
William Tecumseh Sherman | American union army officer, his famous march to the sea to capture Atlanta, Georgia, marking the turning point of the war |