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CIVIL WAR 1861-1865 (Battles (Gettysburg ("turning point" of the…

- - - - Prince William County, Virginia
  - - - Tennessee
    - - 13,000 Union casualties
      - 10,000 confederate casualties
  - - - Sharpsburg, Maryland
    - - About 23,000 casualties in 12 hours
        
        12,400 Union casualties
        
        10,320 Confederate casualties
    - - first major Civil War battle on a Union State
  - - - the beginning of North's success
    - - Jennie Wade
    - - 51,200 casualties
        
        23,000 Union casualties
        
        28,000 Confederate casualties
    - - November 19, 1863
        
        Given by Abraham Lincoln
  - - - 4,800 Union casualties
      - 3,300 Confederate casualties
- - - - were put to work to making clothing for the armies
      - child's bedroom can turn into a hospital
      - required to care for the wounded
        
        prepared bandages
        
        fetched water
    - - Children were put to fields to earn money
        
        They would earn 1/4 of an adult 's wage
    - - Minimum age
        
        Union: 18
        
        Confederacy: No limit
        
        20% of the soldiers in the Civil War were under 18 years old
      - Navy
        
        "Powder Monkeys"
        
        Brought bags of gunpowder to the cannons
        
        their small size was essential to get to the cramped spaces of the ships
      - Army
        
        youngest soldiers were between 8 through 16
        
        drummers
        
        musicians
        
        messengers
        
        nurses
        
        stretch bearers
        
        fought for their lives
    - - Edwin Jemison
        
        15 year-old soldier
        
        Confederate Soldier
      - John Clem
        
        "Little Yankee Devil"
        
        became an unofficial drummer boy at the age of 9
        
        allowed to enlist formally in 1863
        
        became famous at the battle of Chickamauga
        
        got his nickname from a confederate soldier
        
        he was almost captured when he got separated from his regiment
      - John Cook
        
        a bugler
        
        Union artillery regiment
        
        helped load and fire a cannon after a soldier had been killed
        
        fought throughout the day
        
        fought at the battle of Antietam
        
        Received the Medal of Honor
        
        military's highest award for valor
        
        youngest person to receive the Medal of Honor
  - - - term used in the Union
        
        describe a new status
        
        certain escaped slaves
        
        affiliated with the forces
  - - - convinced children to do what is necessary to win the war
    - - money became scarce
      - teachers went to fight
  - - - a father figure/ a mother figure
    - - a soldier who died clutching a picture of his children
        
        moved the hearts of most people
- - - - led the army of Northern Virginia
        
        from 1862 until 1865
    - - Harper's Ferry
  - - - defeated Robert E. Lee
  - - - too cautious
        
        disliked by Abraham Lincoln
    - - committed into preserving the Union
  - - - Clarksburg, West Virginia
    - - wounded by friendly fire
        
        died from pneumonia
    - - rushed his troops to close a gap and stood there like a stonewall
    - - second battle of battle of bull run
      - battle of antietam
      - battle of fredericksburg
      - battle of chancellorsville
- - - - Talbot County, Maryland
    - - Washington, D.C.
    - - Douglass came from a character in a book
        
        Sir Walter Scott's"The Lady of the Lake"
    - - 3 were guys that fought during the Civil War
  - - - Harriet was from her mother
      - Got Tubman from first husband
        
        John Tubman
    - - March 10, 1913
    - - Dorchester, Maryland
    - - went back to free other slaves
        
        used the Underground Railroad
  - - - some were free of slaves
        
        the reason why he sued for his freedom
    - - slaves are considered as property
- - - - had the superior infrastructure (20,000 miles of track)
- - - - March 1861 - April 1865
    - - Hodgenville, Kentucky
    - - John Wilkes Booth
    - - freed all the saves held captive by the rebellion
        
        January 1, 1863
    - - didn't consider blacks as equals of white men
  - - - February 1861 - May 1865
    - - Fairview, Kentucky
    - - New Orleans, Louisiana
    - - sued for treason
- - - - Mary Elizabeth Bowser
        
        Union Spy
        
        former slave
        
        risked her life in Richmond, Virginia
        
        Confederacy capital
        
        secretly delivered messages to the Union
        
        aided by a secret network
        
        full of whites and former slaves
        
        helped prisoners escape
      - Rose O'neal Greenhow
        
        Confederate spy
        
        had powerful social contacts
        
        informed generals through coded messages
        
        one of which was hidden on ger female courier's hair
        
        helped the confederates win the first battle of bull run
        
        went to England and France to negotiate for help
        
        died when the boat she used for escape capsized
        
        the British boat was attacked by the Union
    - - Francis Clayton
        
        "Jack Williams"
        
        known as a true "fighter man"
        
        a mother of three
        
        Union Soldier
        
        discharged when her gender was found out
        
        fought alongside her husband Elmer
        
        Elmer was killed a few feet from her
        
        fought 18 battles
        
        wounded 3 times before being discovered
      - Sarah Pritchard
        
        "Sammy Blalock"
        
        cut her hair too look like a guy
        
        fought with her husband for 3 battles
        
        was discovered by the doctors treating her wounds
        
        Confederate soldier
        
        switched sides later on
    - - Clara Barton
        
        "Angel of the Battlefield"
        
        Founder of the American Red Cross
        
        worked to reunite soldiers and families after the war
        
        a nurse for the Union
        
        brought 3 wagons of medical supplies
      - Amanda Akin
        
        a Union nurse
        
        worked 15 months
        
        Armory Square Hospital
        
        stories about her experiences
        
        sent letters to her sister
        
        had personal diaries
        
        lifted soldiers' spirits
        
        singing
        
        write letters home
        
        decorated the hospital during special occasions
        
        1827-1911
        
        lived in Quaker Hill, New York