Western Battles
This battle completed the western portion of the Anaconda Plan.
Where is Vicksburg?
This battle is remembered for its picnickers and the Confederate "rebel yell."
What is First Bull Run?
Who is McClellan?
The constricting snake for which the Union war plan was named.
What is an anaconda?
This is the deadliest single day in American history.
What is the Battle of Antietam?
This is where the Confederacy burned many of their valuable supplies to keep the Union from capturing them.
Where is New Orleans?
Remembered as being part of the "Peninsular Campaign."
What is the Seven Days Battles?
He had three horses shot out from underneath him at the Battle of Shiloh.
Who is William T. Sherman?
What is total war?
This is considered the turning point of the war.
What is the Battle of Gettysburg.
The battle that took place near a church.
What is Shiloh?
It was for this battle the Confederate plans were found wrapped around cigars.
This Confederate general was killed by his own men when returning to their camp at night.
Who is "Stonewall" Jackson?
This term describes the legal process by which someone is set free.
What is emancipation?
This is the town the Union sieged for 292 days before they were able to capture the Confederate capital of Richmond.
What is Petersburg?
This is how long the Siege at Vicksburg occured.
What is 47 days?
This battle is noted for the significance of hills.
What is Gettysburg?
This Confederate general led a failed charge of over 12,000 men up one of the hills at Gettysburg.
Who is General Pickett?
This term means that a nation uses factories, machines, and other technology to mass produce their goods?
What is industrialized?
This is the name of the Union warship the Confederates captured, retrofitted, and renamed the Virginia.
What is the Merrimack?
The first major Confederate city to fall to the Union.
What is Nashville?
This campaign is noted for the total war strategies used in Georgia.
What is Sherman's March to the Sea?
This is the general who led the Union forces at the Battle of Gettysburg?
Who is George Meade?
This term is used to describe a body of soldiers, stationed in a specific area, with the purpose of defending that location.
What is a garrison?
This is the Constitutional Amendment that officially abolished slavery in the United States.
What is the Thirteenth Amendment?