Trans-Mississippi
What expedition failed to secure Missouri for the Confederacy in 1864?
What is Price's Missouri Expedition?
This battle shattered the idea the Civil War could be a 'short' and 'decisive' war.
What is the Battle of Shiloh?
This battle saw both sides walk away with the need for a professional army.
What was the First Battle of Bull Run?
This river campaign was fought in Texas to stop the smuggling of cotton and weapons across the Mexican border.
What was the Rio Grande Campaign?
What allowed the Union to start framing the war as a 'war against slavery' as well as it being a 'war against secession'.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
Described as the 'Gettysburg of the West', it is the pivotal battle in the New Mexico Campaign.
What is Battle of Glorieta Pass?
This Battle was the largest victory for the Confederacy in the Civil War, but failed to be strategically significant.
What is the Battle of Chickamauga?
Late in the war, the Confederates desperately attempted to launch their only attack on DC, leading to this battle.
What is the Battle of Fort Stevens?
This was the first kill taken by a submarine in naval history.
What was the Sinking of the USS Housatonic?
Attempted by the Confederate States to poke holes in the naval blockade around the South.
What was Blockade Runners?
This battle, fought in 1863, denied the Union the ability to invade Texas from the east.
What is the (Second) Battle of Sabine Pass?
This campaign attempted to force a state to join the Confederacy- it however backfired and resulted in a growing pro-Union sentiment.
What is the Confederate Heartland Campaign?
This campaign led to the formal surrender of the Confederate States in 1865, ending the Civil War.
What was the Appomattox Campaign?
While not a battle, this incident had the potential to drag the British into the Civil War on the side of the Confederates.
What is the Trent Affair?
When Sherman was marching through Georgia, he adopted this strategy to break Confederate morale.
What was the 'Total War Doctrine'?
This battle finally 'cut the Confederacy in half' along the Mississippi River in 1863, completing the Anaconda Plan.
What is the Siege of Vicksburg?
This Battle would hand the Union control over Tennessee by 1863, and allow further action into Georgia.
What is the Chattanooga Campaign?
This battle discouraged Union advances into Virginia for a while, allowing the Confederates to go onto the offensive into Pennsylvania.
What is the Battle of Chancellorsville?
This revolutionary battle would be the first one between two ironclad warships- the Monitor and Virginia.
What was the Battle of Hampton Roads?
This early Confederate plan attempted to guard everywhere at once a long the Confederate border, leading to an overstretched defense.
What is the 'Confederate Cordon Defense'?
This battle saw the capture of a major Mississippi River port city in Louisiana.
What is the Capture of New Orleans?
Sometimes called 'the first example of total war', this drive to the Atlantic set much of Georgia on fire.
What is Sherman's March to the Sea?
This battle was the first attempt by the Confederates to try and invade the Union directly, it however turned into a massive Confederate defeat.
What was the Battle of Gettysburg?
This battle was fought on the Mississippi River, leading to the start of the collapse of the Confederates along the whole of the Mississippi River.
What was the Battle of Island No. 10
This plan called to 'split' the Confederacy in half' along the Mississippi and 'choke' its ability to trade with other nations.
What is the Anaconda Plan?