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- WHat nickname was given to Northern "Peace Democrats" who favored negotiating with the Confederacy to end the Civil War?
- George McClellan turned back Robert E.Lee's first invasion of North in Maryland
- When Lincoln said, "I can't spare this man; he fights," about whom was he referring?
- What prisoner of war camp for Union soldiers in Georgia saw 13,000 of 33,000 prisoners die during the Civil War?
- What nickname was given to the colorful currency printed by the Union government during the Civil War?
- Who was known as the "Angel of the Battlefield" during the Civil War and later founded the American Red Cross?
- Who did Lincoln appoint to head the Army of the Potomac (he trained them well, but hesitated to lead them into battle)?
- Named General-in-Chief of U.S. Army afterBull Run and the retirement of Winfield Scott
- What Battle fought in Maryland on September 17, 1862 remains the deadliest single day in American history?
- Who was the female Union Army surgeon in the Civil War who remains the only woman to ever receive the Medal of Honor?
- Who was the only female officer in the Confederate Army (her hospital in Richmond only lost 73 of 1333 patients)?
- What nickname was given to the logs Confederates painted black to exaggerate their artillery strength?
- African Americans constituted less than 1% of the Union population, but by war's end, made up 10% of the Union Army.
- What bloody two-day battle in 1862 takes its name from the Hebrew word meaning "place of peace?"
- The bravery of what African-American regiment (led by Colonel Robert Gould Shaw) helped win respect for Black soldiers?
- What nickname was given to adolescents who assisted gun crews aboard Union naval ships during the Civil War?
- What Confederate spy gathern information about Union movements in the Shenandoah Valley to share with Rebel leaders?
- What small town in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley changed hands 72 times during the Civil War?
- Who was the Democratic candidate for President who ran against Lincoln and lost in 1864?
- What was the name of the Radical Republican plan for Reconstruction (Lincoln vetoed it in 1864)?