Flashcards: American Civil War

Morris Jacob Raphall (October 3, 1798–June 23, 1868) was a rabbi and author born at Stockholm, Sweden.

The Gettysburg Address is a speech by U.

The Andersonville National Historic Site, located near Andersonville, Georgia, preserves the former Camp Sumter (also known as Andersonville Prison), a Confederate prisoner-of-war camp during the final twelve months of the American Civil War.

The H. L. Hunley was a submarine of the Confederate States of America that played a small part in the American Civil War.

The Agar gun (or Ager) was an early rapid fire machine gun developed during the US Civil War.

The Union blockade in the American Civil War was a naval strategy by the United States to prevent the Confederacy from trading.

Field artillery in the American Civil War refers to the artillery weapons, equipment, and practices used by the Artillery branch to support the infantry and cavalry forces in the field.

Joseph Eggleston Johnston (February 3, 1807 – March 21, 1891) was a career U.

The 10th Regiment Alabama Volunteer Infantry was an infantry regiment that served in the Confederate Army during the American Civil War.

The 54th Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, nicknamed the "Swamp Angels", was an infantry regiment that saw extensive service in the Union Army during the American Civil War.

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The National Union Party was the name used by the Republican Party for the national ticket in the 1864 presidential election, held during the Civil War.

The Emancipation Proclamation was a presidential proclamation and executive order issued by President Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863.

The Army of Virginia was organized as a major unit of the Union Army and operated briefly and unsuccessfully in 1862 in the American Civil War.

The Army of the Cumberland was one of the principal Union armies in the Western Theater during the American Civil War.

The Army of the Tennessee was a Union army in the Western Theater of the American Civil War, named for the Tennessee River.

Historians debating the origins of the American Civil War focus on the reasons why seven Southern states declared their secession from the United States (the Union), why they united to form the Confederate States of America (the "Confederacy"), and why the North refused to let them go.

The Knights of the Golden Circle (KGC) was a secret society in the mid-nineteenth-century United States.

The 8th Regiment Alabama Volunteer Infantry was an infantry regiment that served in the Confederate Army during the American Civil War.

The 9th Regiment Alabama Volunteer Infantry was an infantry regiment that served in the Confederate Army during the American Civil War.

The Alabama Claims were a series of demands for damages sought by the government of the United States from the United Kingdom in 1869, for the attacks upon Union merchant ships by Confederate Navy commerce raiders built in British shipyards during the American Civil War.

General Edward Clifford Anderson, SR, (November 8, 1815 – January 6, 1883) was a naval officer in the United States Navy, Mayor of Savannah, and a Brigadier General in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War.

Pierce Manning Butler Young (November 15, 1836 – July 6, 1896) was a Major General in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War and a post-war politician, diplomat, and four-term United States Congressman from Georgia.

Major George Wayne Anderson, (August 5, 1839 – August 10, 1906) was an officer in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War.

Emily Elizabeth Parsons (1824–1880) was an American Civil War nurse and founder of Mount Auburn Hospital in Massachusetts.

The 2nd Regiment South Carolina Cavalry was a cavalry regiment made from the Hampton's Legion cavalry Battalion.

One of the most successful scouts in the ranks of the Federal army in Western Virginia, in the summer of 1861, was Jack (John) Cade of Marion County, Ohio, a private in Company K of the Fourth Ohio Volunteer Infantry.

St. Alban’s Episcopal Church is an Episcopal church and cemetery located in Bovina, Mississippi.

Erasmus Corwin Gilbreath (May 13, 1840 – August 22, 1898) was a Major in the United States Army who began his 37-year career as a 1st Lieutenant in the 20th Indiana Volunteer Regiment.