1. Chapter 17 The Civil War Vocabulary

2. Border States
Slave states that remained in the Union—Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky and Missouri

3. Emancipate
To be free

4. Emancipation Proclamation
Document that declared on Jan all slaves living in the Confederate states were to be freed

5. Iron Clad
warships with protective iron plates

6. Casualties
military term for people killed, wounded or missing in action

7. Draft
A law that required all able-bodied men between the ages of to serve in the military if called upon

8. Civilians
People who are not in the armed forces

9. General Robert E. Lee
Commander of the Confederate Army

10. General George McClellan
He was the 1st Commander of the Union army. He was replaced after the Battle of Antietam

11. General Stonewall Jackson
(Thomas Jackson) He was a Confederate General who fought stubbornly at the Battle of Bull Run

12. General Ulysses S. Grant
Commander of the Union Army at the end of the Civil War

13. Gettysburg Address
Speech given by President Abraham Lincoln in November of 1863 to honor all the soldiers who had been killed at the Battle of Gettysburg

14. 54th Massachusetts Regiment
One of the most famous African American regiments in the Union Army

15. Total War
Military tactic where everything useful to the enemy is destroyed…homes, farms, businesses, railroads. It effected the civilians as well as the soldiers

16. General William Tecumseh Sherman
Union General who took control of the South by using Total War