One of the bloodiest battles was fought in Clara BartonVicksburgUnionFort WagnerAntietamSelect your answer, Maryland. Shortly after the Union army narrowly won that battle, Abraham Lincoln issued the Fort WagnerVicksburgEmancipation ProclamationUnionAmerican Red CrossSelect your answer in 1863, which ended slavery in the Confederacy but did not end slavery in the slave states that were in the Union.

Many people from the North and the South lost their lives as the war continued. The 54th Massachusetts Colored Regiment, an African American troop that fought for the Union Army, lost about 500 soldiers in a battle at Gettysburg AddressFort WagnerUnionVicksburgSelect your answer in Charleston. Women both in the North and South VicksburgAntietamsupportedEmancipation ProclamationUnionSelect your answer their troops by working in factories and hospitals. Clara BartonUnionGettysburg AddressConfederateVicksburgSelect your answer aided Union soldiers, and after the war founded the American Red CrossGettysburg AddressFort WagnerAntietamEmancipation ProclamationSelect your answer. In 1863, Ulysses S. Grant led Union troops to victory in ConfederateFort WagnersupportedClara BartonVicksburgSelect your answer, Mississippi.

In Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, American Red CrossGettysburg AddressVicksburgConfederateUnionSelect your answer troops led by General George Meade fought and won a major battle against the Confederacy. Over 28,000 VicksburgFort WagnerConfederateUnionGettysburg AddressSelect your answer soldiers were killed or wounded. The course of the war changed in favor of the North and led to Lincoln's famous AntietamEmancipation ProclamationConfederateGettysburg AddressFort WagnerSelect your answer.