The Civil War Begins

Section1 The Civil War begins

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1) Fort Sumter

One of the two Southern forts remained in Union hands. Located in South Carolina, it was threatened to be attacked by the Confederacy.

2) Anaconda plan

A three-part strategy by which the Union proposed to defeat the Confederacy in the Civil War. The Union navy would blockade Southern ports, so Northerners could neither export and cotton nor import much-needed manufactured goods. Union riverboats and armies would move down the Mississippi River and split the confederacy in two, and Union armies would capture the Confederate capital at Richmond, Virginia.

3) Bull Run

The place where Confederate encamped when the first major bloodshed occurred.

4) Stonewall Jackson

The nickname of General Thomas J. Jackson who stood like a stone wall to inspire the Confederates when the Union army gained the upper hand.

5) George McClellan

The General who was appointed to lead a new Union army which known as the Army of the Potomac.

6) Ulysses S. Grant

A rumpled West Point graduate who was a general of a Union army that invaded western Tennessee.

7) Shiloh

A small Tennessee church which was close to the Mississippi border. Many union troops were shot by Confederate soldiers there. It has demonstrated how bloody the war might become.

8) David G. Farragut

The commander who led a Union fleet of about 40 ships approached the river's mouth in Louisiana to seize New Orleans.

9) Monitor

An ironclad ship used by the North in the Civil War.

10) Merrimack

An ironclad ship used by the South in the Civil War.

11) Robert E. Lee

The general who took the command of the army that backed away McClellan from way to confederate capital.

12) Antietam

A slash creek where McClellan' army and Lee's army fought.

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1861:

April: Confederate attacked Fort

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