Baseball
Antietam
Common Soldier Interview
Dispatches
Dispatches II
100
Base ball during the Civil War was also called this.
What is rounders or town ball?
100
Northerners called this battle Antietam (a nearby creek), Southerners named it after this nearby town.
What is Sharpsburg?
100
This battle in December is profiled in the Interview.
What is the Battle of Fredericksburg?
100
Monitor and Merrimac.
What were the first two ironclad ships that battled?
100
After capturing New Orleans, the Union got control of this river.
What is the Mississippi?
200
Alexander Jay Cartwright and Abner Doubleday.
What two persons had much to do with the rules and early organization of baseball?
200
The two famous opposing generals at the Battle of Antietam.
Who were Robert E. Lee and George B. McClellan?
200
What one Union soldier called the attack up Marye's Heights above Fredericksburg.
What is suicidal?
200
The battle of the ironclads in March 1862 made these obsolete.
What were wooden ships?
200
This Union general was victorious at the battle of Shiloh.
Who was U.S. Grant?
300
Strikers
What were batters called in the early days?
300
Nearly 5,000 in one day.
How many soldiers on both sides died at Antietam?
300
What brown homespun uniforms of the Rebs were called.
What is butternut?
300
Fought in once peaceful peach orchards and near a church in 1862, this was one of the bloodiest single battles in U.S. history.
What is the battle of Shiloh?
300
This brilliant Confederate general became Lee's "right hand man" in the spring of 1862 only to be shot and killed by his own men.
Who was Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson?
400
Outfielders were called this.
What were scouts?
400
This side should have won the battle more decisively.
What is the Union/North?
400
Of all the food and drink given to Union's soldiers, this was their favorite.
What is coffee?
400
U.S. Grant for the Union and Albert Sidney Johnston for the Confederates.
Who commanded the armies at the bloody Shiloh?
400
The battle of Antietam was fought in this "northern" state.
What is Maryland?
500
Standees.
What were fans called during the Civil War?
500
A copy of these were lost just days before and thus, when found by the Union, gave General McClellan a distinct advantage at Antietam.
What are Lee's orders (Special Order #191)
500
Thirteen dollars.
What is the pay given to a Union soldier each month?
500
This key southern port was captured by the Union Navy in April 1862.
What is New Orleans?
500
Known for his fancy facial hair, this Union general commanded troops in a losing effort at Fredericksburg.
Who was General Amrose Burnsides? (He wore "sideburns"-a reversal of words in his last name)
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