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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| THOMAS “STONEWALL” JACKSON | American Confederate general, he led the Shenandoah Valley campaign and fought with Lee in the Seven Days’ Battles and the First and Second Battles of Bull Run. |
| FIRST BATTLE OF BULL RUN | the first major battle of the Civil War, resulting in a Confederate victory; showed that the Civil War would not be won easily |
| GEORGE B. MCCLEELAN | American army general put in charge of Union troops and later removed by Lincoln for failure to press Lee’s Confederate troops in Richmond. |
| ROBERT E. LEE | American soldier, 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 |
| SEVEN DAYS’ BATTLES | a series of Civil War battles in which Confederate army successes forced the Union army to retreat from Richmond, Virginia, the Confederate capital |
| BATTLE OF ANTIETAM | a Union victory in the Civil War that marked the bloodiest single-day battle in U.S. military history |
| SECOND BATTLE OF BULL RUN | a Civil War battle in which the Confederate army forced most of the Union army out of Virginia |
| IRONCLADS | A warship with iron |