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1. General of the Union army at 2nd Battle of Bull Run; defeated; replaced by McClellan

2. Ohio unionist of the Copperhead faction of anti-war - pro-Confederate Democrats

3. General of the Confederate army at 1st Battle of Bull Run and Peninsula Campaign. He surrendered to William Sherman on April 26th - 1865 in North Carolina.

4. General of the Union army - ordered by Grant to wage total war in Shenandoah Valley in Virginia. He burned and destroyed all farmland - animals and food

5. Invented the reaper - could harvest 6x more rain than men alone

6. Abolitionist - escaped from slavery - great thinker and speaker - published his own antislavery newspaper and wrote an autobiography

7. General of the Confederate army - assaulted Grant at the battle of Shiloh. He dies at the battle because he was shot in the leg and cant feel it - and thus bleeds to death.

8. General of the Union Army - best remembered for his stunning defeat by Confederate General Robert E. Lee at the Battle of Chancellorsville in 1863.

9. Secretary of State under Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson

10. Abolitionist newspaper publisher to whom Lincoln wrote a letter about wanting to resote the union - even if slavery had to continue.

11. General of the Union army; surrounded and defeated Lee at Gettysburg

12. Confederate Cavalry Commander - Battles: Shiloh - Vicksburg - Chickamauga - Atlanta - Savannah - Chattanooga - and Carolina Campaign - started the KKK

13. General of the Union Army; fired by Lincoln for being too cautious - Peninsular campaign

14. Invented the cotton gin. Also contributed to the concept of interchangeable parts that were exactly alike and easily assembled or exchanged

15. General of the Union army - appointed general by Lincoln after firing McClellan

16. Union commander of the 20th Maine - achieved fame during the Battle of Gettysburg for his defense of Little Round Top

17. Leader of a slave rebellion - but was found out by Charleston SC - arrested and executed

18. Confederate commander who was executed for mistreatment of Union prisoners of war

19. President of the United States saved the Union during the Civil War and emancipated the slaves; was assassinated by Booth

20. Senator who persuaded Congress to accept the Missouri Compromise - which admitted Maine into the Union as a free state - and Missouri as a slave state

21. General-in-chief of the Union Army from 1864 to 1869 during the American Civil War.

22. President of the Confederate States of America for its entire history from 1861 to 1865

23. Former slave who helped slaves escape on the Underground Railroad

24. Union Colonel in command the all black 54th Mass. regiment

25. Presidential nominee for Republicans in election of 1856

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