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- ___________ was voted out of the Whig Party (Cabinet Resignations).
- Who inspired American women to take a nursing tasks in army Hospitals?
- Searching and reading for food as a soldiers marched
- With his ragged and battered troops surrounded and out numbered, General Lee surrendered to General Grant on April 9, 1865 at
- A strategic crossroads northeast of Richmond
- What assault, which cost the Union 7000 lives and the Confederates 1500 lives, did General Grant say he regretted more than any he had ordered
- Who led the rates that distracted Confederate troops, enabling general grant to land his troops south of Vicksburg?
- In addition to ending the enslavement of millions of African-Americans, the North victory in the Civil War also save the union and strengthen the power of the federal government over the
- While Grant battled in Virginia General Sherman marshes army from Chattanooga toward
- Nickname given to reel line is heated and twisted into snarls is still by Union troops
- Sherman's troops set fires to destroy structures but the first quickly spread burning down more than a third of what city?
- On May 2, 1863, Lee's troops attacked hookers forces intense woods known as the wilderness near the town of
- After the union's major victories at Vicksburg and Gettysburg, fierce fighting Europe did near Chattanooga, Tennessee, a vital
- When general Sherman's troops cut a swath of destruction through Georgia
- Early in the war, do United States in the confederacy had avoided the difficulties of holding large numbers of prisoners by agreeing to formal
- To cut off food and supplies and been part of city until it's defenders give up
- Frederick Douglass believe that serving in the military would help African-Americans overcome
- Lacking sufficient money from taxes are bonds, the confederacy was forced to print paper money to pay its bills, causing rapid
- To capture Vicksburg her give in the union control of the Mississippi River, while the victory of Chattanooga had secured eastern Tennessee and he cleared the way for an invasion of
- In the summer of 1862, Congress introduced a militia law that requires states to draft people for military service called