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were a faction of Democrats in the Union who opposed the American Civil War and wanted an immediate peace settlement with the Confederates. Republicans started calling anti-war Democrats "Copperheads", likening them to the venomous snake.
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military strategy proposed by Union General Winfield Scott early in the American Civil War. The plan called for a naval blockade of the Confederate littoral, a thrust down the Mississippi, and the strangulation of the South by Union land and naval forces.
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The battle ended the Confederate invasion of Maryland in 1862 and resulted in a Union victory.
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The proclamation declared "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states "are, and henceforward shall be free."
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was legislation enacted by the 37th United States Congress during the American Civil War that allowed African-Americans to participate as war laborers and soldiers for the first time since the Militia Act of 1792.
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provided that any adult citizen, or intended citizen, who had never borne arms against the U.S. government could claim 160 acres of surveyed government land. Claimants were required to “improve” the plot by building a dwelling and cultivating the land.
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Act of the U.S. Congress that provided grants of land to states to finance the establishment of colleges specializing in “agriculture and the mechanic arts.” Named for its sponsor, Vermont Congressman Justin Smith Morrill, it granted each state 30,000 acres for each of its congressional seats.
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The siege of Vicksburg was the final major military action in the Vicksburg campaign of the American Civil War.
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Gettysburg is the war's most famous battle because of its large size, high cost in lives, location in a northern state, and for President Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address. American soldier, he refused Lincoln's offer to head the Union army and agreed to lead Confederate forces.
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The Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution abolished slavery and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime.
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The Presidential election of 1864 took place during the American Civil War. The election was noteworthy for occurring at all, an unprecedented democratic exercise in the midst of a civil war.
