2. By: Jake Ewing ETE 100 – 02 November 2, 2009

3.  16 th President of the United States.  President during the Civil War.  Freed the slaves.  President from March 1961- April 1865.  Was assassinated in 1865 by John Wilkes Booth. (Gardner, 1865)

4.  He was a career United States Army officer, an engineer, and among the most celebrated generals in American history.  He commanded the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia during the Civil War.  Lee supported President Andrew Johnson's program of Reconstruction.  He died October 12, 1870.

5.  He was general-in- chief of the Union Army from 1864 to 1869.  He then became the 18 th President of the U.S. from 1869-1877.  Was the first president since Andrew Jackson to be re-elected.

6.  He was an American politician who served as President of the Confederate States of America for its entire history, 1861 to 1865.  He was the United States Secretary of War under Franklin Pierce.  He also served as a senator from Mississippi.  After Davis was captured May 10, 1865, he was charged with treason.  He died in 1856.

7.  He served as a General in the Union Army during the American Civil War.  He was described as the “first modern general”.  He led the campaigns that led to the fall of the Confederate stronghold of Vicksburg on the Mississippi River.  When Grant became president, Sherman succeeded him as Commanding General of the Army from 1869-1883.

8.  Known as the site upon which the shots initiating the American Civil War were fired.  On April 12, 1861, at 4:30 a.m., Confederate batteries opened fire, firing for 34 straight hours, on the fort.  The Fort Sumter Flag became a popular patriotic symbol after Major Anderson returned North with it.

9.  It was fought near Manassas, Virginia on July 21, 1861.  It was the first major land battle of the American Civil War.  Battle that Jackson earned his nickname “stonewall”.  After this battle they realized that the war would potentially be much longer and bloodier than they had originally anticipated.

10.  This battle was fought around Fredericksburg, Virginia.  December 11 to December 15, 1862.  Remembered as one of the most one-sided battles of the American Civil War.  The Union Army suffered terrible casualties in futile frontal assaults on December 13.  Brought an early end to the Union’s plan of capturing Richmond.

11.  Took place in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.  It was the battle with the largest number of casualties in the American Civil War.  Usually described as the turning point of the war.  The union defeated the confederates and ended Lee’s invasion of the north.  Between 46,000 and 51,000 Americans were casualties in the three-day battle.

12.  Fought in Vicksburg, Mississippi.  It was the final major military action in the Vicksburg Campaign of the American Civil War.  When the Union Army took control of Vicksburg they also took control of the Mississippi River.  It also blocked communication between the Confederate states.

13.  Library of Congress Library of Congress  Gardner, A. (1865, February 05). Abraham lincoln : a resource guide. Retrieved from http://www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/president s/lincoln/bibliography.html http://www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/president s/lincoln/bibliography.html  (n.d.). Jump back in time. Retrieved from http://www.americaslibrary.gov/cgi- bin/jb_date.cgi?day=19&month=05