1. Military Leaders Union

3. Speaker of the US House of Rep.

5. led two Union armies in two great Civil War battles:

6. Shiloh

7. Perryville

9. soldier

10. railroad executive

11. inventor

12. industrialist

13. politician (served as governor & U.S. Senator)

14. conducted successful campaigns in NC and East TN

16. U.S. House of Representatives

17. widely reviled for years after the war by Southern whites who called him “Beast Butler”

18. one of the most controversial political generals of the war b/c of:

19. administration of occupied New Orleans

20. policies regarding slaves as contraband

21. ineffectual leadership in the Bermuda Hundred Campaign

23. volunteered to join Union army

24. awarded Medal of Honor for bravery at Gettysburg

25. given the honor to command Union troops at the surrender ceremony for the infantry of Lee’s army at Appomattox

26. 32nd Governor of Maine

28. known for disastrous military engagement at the Battle of the Little Bighorn

30. younger brother of George A. Custer

32. important at the beginning of Civil War for arresting which prevented MD legislature from meeting and preventing MD from seceding

33. earned him Lincoln’s gratitude

34. helped suppress New York City Draft Riots

35. Dix-Hill Cartel

37. the first rear admiral, vice admiral, and full admiral of the Navy

38. remembered for his order at the Battle of Mobile Bay

40. served during Mex-Amer. War

41. Assistant Secretary of the Navy during Civil War

42. sent in the steamer Baltic to the relief of Maj. Robert Anderson in Fort Sumter and brought them away

44. military officer

45. explorer

47. Sept. 1861 – became brigadier general

48. Sought to win control of MS valley

50. April 1862 – Battle of Shiloh

51. Sought to win Vicksburg to cut the Confederacy in two

52. Also broke Confederate hold on Chattanooga

53. March 1864 – Appointed as General-in-Chief

54. Directed Sherman to drive through the South

55. While he and the Army of the Potomac pinned down Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia

56. April 9, 1865 – Appomattox Court House, Lee surrendered

59. important participant in the admission of California as a state

60. early in the war,

61. senior Union Army commander in the Western Theater

62. served for almost two years as general-in-chief of all U.S. armies

64. “Hancock the Superb”

65. noted in particular for his personal leadership at the Battle of Gettysburg in 1863

67. led two Union armies in two great Civil War battles:

68. Shiloh

69. Perryville

71. led Lewis Powell to the home of Sec. of State William H. Seward

72. assisted Booth to Dr. Samuel Mudd’s home after Booth broke his leg

74. Ill. Senator

76. civil engineer

78. served briefly (Nov 1861 – Mar 1862) as general-in-chief

79. Peninsula Campaign in 862 failed

80. “If General McClellan does not want to use the army, I would like to borrow it for a time.” – Lincoln

81. failed to maintain trust of Lincoln

82. unsuccessful Democratic candidate in election of 1864

84. civil engineer involved in coastal construction

85. fought w/distinction in the Seminole War and Mexican-American War

88. general

89. brief but successful career in the Western Theater

91. general

92. known for his performance at the Second Battle of Bull Run and his subsequent court martial

96. confidant of Grant

98. general

99. one of the Union Army’s most respected senior commanders

100. played a key roll in committing the Army of the Potomac to the Battle of Gettysburg

102. major general in the Union Army

103. nicknamed “Fighting Dick” for prowess on the battlefield

105. Union Army brigadier general

107. coal-oil company executive

108. diplomat

109. politician

110. Army officer

111. victor at prominent Western Theater battles

112. Second Corinth

113. Stones River

114. Tullahoma Campaign

116. general

117. close association w. Grant who transferred Sheridan from command of an infantry division in the Western Theater to lead the Cavalry Corps of the Army of the Potomac

118. defeated Confed. forces in the Shenandoah Valley

119. destroyed the economic infrastructure of the Valley

121. General

122. served under Grant in ‘62 and ‘63 during campaigns that led to the fall of the Confed. stronghold of Vicksburg

123. Sherman succeeded Grant as Union commander in the western theater of the war

125. General

126. antebellum NY politician, involved in a number of public scandals, most notably the killing of his wife’s lover, Philip Barton Key, son of Francis Scott Key

127. At the Battle of Gettysburg, he insubordinately moved his III Corps to a position in which it was virtually destroyed

129. worked at Ford’s Theater

131. Union general

132. oldest field commander of any Army Corps on either side during the war

134. his mother (Mary Surratt) was convicted and hanged by the US Federal Govt.

135. she owned the boarding house where Booth and conspirators planned the scheme

138. general

139. One of the principal commanders in the Western Theater

140. stout defense at the Battle of Chickamauga in 1863 saved the Union Army from being completely routed

141. earned him the nickname “Rock of Chickamauga”

143. general

144. career ruined during of the Battle of Five Forks when he was relieved of command by Sheridan

146. buildup of the Navy to successfully execute blockades of Southern ports was a key component of Northern victory

148. general

149. served as Chief of Engineers for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers