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Q4T2
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History
9th Grade
05/31/2008

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Hooker

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"fighting joe hooker"

- cocky, northern general at the battle of Chancellorsville; defeated

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Burnside
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- northern general during the battle of fredricksburg; defeated
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Meade
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commander of the Union army for less than a week (battle of gettysburg)

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Lee
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- southern general during battle of fredricksburg, chancellorsville, gettysburg, and vicksburg
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Grant
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northern general @ the battle of Vicksburg

BIGGEST VICTORY

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McLean

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-owner of the Appomatox Courthouse @ Manassas Junction- where Lee & Grant met

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Everett
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- well known public speaker; gave a "crowd-pleasing" two hour speech; praised lincoln's gettysburg adress
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Longstreet
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lee's second in command; helped him out during the battle of gettysburg

 

- accidently shot @ the battle of wilderness

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Pemberton

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southern general @ the battle of vicksburg; defeated

 

JULY 4,1683 HE ORDERED HIS 30,000 STARVING/MALNOURISHED TROOPS TO SURRENDOR

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Sherman

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McClellan
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ran in the election of 1864 with Lincoln; defeated
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Pickett

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Sheridan
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Battle of Gettysburg
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southern general; Lee

northern general; Meade

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Battle of Vicksburg
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southern general; Lee

northern general; Grant

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Battle of Chancellorsville
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southern general; Lee

northern general; fighting Joe Hooker

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Battle of Fredricksburg
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northern general; burnside

southern general; lee

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Gettysburg Adress
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- speech lasted less than two minutes

-most of the people of the time thought it was to short & simple

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sherman's "march to sea"
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unstable; grant stood by him

 

-ordered Atlanta to evacuate & burn

- ordered his 62,000 man army to cut 300 mile path of destruction across Georgia

-he entered the city of Savannah without opposition

-his capture was needed for Lincoln's re-election

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how the north was able to win the war ? !

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