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Jefferson Davis
Davis failed to raise sufficient funds to fight in the civil war and could not obtain recognition and help the confederacy from foreign government. -
Fort Sumter
President Abraham Lincoln received a message stating that the fort had less than six weeks of food supplies left. -
Winfield Scott and the Anaconda Plan
United states army general and unsuccessful candidate of the Whig party in 1852. served on active duty longer than any other man in U.S history. Winfield Scott conceived the Anaconda plan, which was used to defeat the Confederacy. The Anaconda plan- the name widely applied to an outline strategy for subduing the seceding states in the American Civil war. The plan emphasized the blockade of the Southern ports,and called for an advance down the Mississippi River. -
Battle of Bull Run
The first real major conflict of the American Civil war. The Union Army under the command of General McDowell fought the Confederates under General Beuregard -
George McClellan
Organized the famous Army of the Potomac, and served ,and served as the general-in-chief of the Union Army He was influential in organizing and training of the Union Army. -
Thomas Stonewall Jackson
Confederate general during the war. Was known to be one of the most tactical commanders during the civil war.
