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 * __PEOPLE__**

Year Born: 1823 Place Born: Camden, South Carolina Side: Confederate Reason for fame: She was a plantation owner and she is known for her dairy she kept during the Civil War. Which was published and talks about the mistreatment of slaves.
 * Mary B. Chesnut:**

Year Born: 1821 Place Born: South Carolina Side: Confederate Reason for fame: He was a general during the Civil War and was known as an aggresive leader. He won the Battle of Big Bethel.
 * Daniel H. Hill**

Year Born: 1817 Place Born: Talbot County, Maryland Side: Union Reason for fame: He was a slave that escaped. He joined the Ani-slavery Society. He made great speeches, he wrote a book about him being a slave. No one believed he was a slave. He fought for black people to be able to fight for the Union.
 * Frederick Douglass**

Year Born: 1821 Place Born: North Oxford, Massachusetts Side: Union Reason for fame: She was an American nurse and a teacher. During the Civil War she helped the wouned by being a nurse. She created the American Red Cross Society. She was strong and indepented. She recieved the nickname "the angel of the battlefield"
 * Clara Barton**

Born: 1825 Place: Richmond, Virginia Side: Confederate Reason for fame: He is mostly remeber for his Pickett's charge at the battle of Gettysburg. He also lead his troops threw the center of the union line, which is called the Confederacy's "high-water mark"
 * George E. Pickett**


 * __BATTLES__**

Location: Fulton County Date: July 22, 1864 Who won: Union Generals: William T. Sherman (Union) John Bell Hood (Confederate)
 * The Battle for Atlanta**

Location: Catoosa County and Walker County Date: September 18-20, 1863 Who won: Confederate Generals: William S. Rosecrans and George H. Thomas (Union) Braxton Bragg and James Longstreet (Confederate)
 * Battle of Chickamauga**

Location: Spotsylvania County Date: April 30-May 6, 1863 Who won: Confederate Generals: Joseph Hooker (Union) Robert E. Lee and Thomas J. Jackson (Confederate)
 * The Battle of Chancellorsville**

Location: Spotsylvania County and Fredericksburg Date: December 11-15, 1862 Who won: Confederate Generals: Ambrose E. Burnside (Union) Robert E. Lee (Confederate)
 * The Battle of Fredericksburg**

Location: Charleston County, South Carolina Date: April 12–13, 1861 Who won: Confederate Generals: Robert Anderson (Union) Pierre T. Beauregard (Confederate)
 * The Battle of Fort Sumter**


 * __LAWS__**

Law: Slavely Abolition Act Date: 1833 Impact:

Law: The Compromise of 1850 Date: 1850 Impact:

Law: Fugitive slave Law Date: September 18, 1850 Impact:

Law: Confiscation Act of 1861 Date: August 6, 1861 Impact:

Law: Emancipation Proclamation Date: January 1, 1863 Impact:

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