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Blockade running
the process of smuggling materials through the blockade
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Seven days Battle
June 26- july 2 1862, southern general robert E Lee lauched counter attack
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Battle of Bull Run
July 21 1861, confederates victory
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Peninsula Campaign
water born approach to richmond (the souths capital)
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Merrimack
Confederate ship
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second battle of bull run
robert E lee crushed the arrogant general john pope
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Antietam Creek
september 17 1862, bloodiest day in civil war
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Emancipation proclimation
didn't really free the slaves but gave the general idea, announced january 1 1863
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Fort Pillow
blacks who surrendered were massacred by forrests army
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Battle of gettysburg
- july 1-3 1863
- General George Pickett led a hopeless charge across the field
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Grant
great general victories at fort herny and for donelson
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Shiloh
april 6-7 1862, south victory
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Vicksburg Missippi
grant besieged the city and captured it on july 4, 1863
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Copperheads
against the war
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Appomattox courthouse
april 1865, lee formally surrenders
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John Wikes Booth
april 14 1865 shot lincoln in the head
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