Common Soldiers
This battle in December is profiled in the COMMON SOLDIER INTERVIEW '62.
What is the battle of Fredericksburg?
Monitor and Merrimac.
What were the two ships that fought at Hampton Roads in the first ever battle between ironclad ships?
After capturing New Orleans, the Union got control of this river.
What is the Mississippi?
Winning side at the second Battle of Bull Run.
Who were the Confederates?
Northerners called this battle Antietam (a nearby creek), Southerns named it after this nearby town.
What is Sharpsburg?
What one Union soldier called the attack up at Marye's Heights above Fredericksburg.
What is suicidal?
The battle of the Ironclads in March 1862 made these obsolete.
What were wooden ships?
This Union general was victorious at the Battle of Shiloh.
Who was U.S. Grant?
The opposing generals a 2nd Bull Run.
Who were Robert E. Lee and John Pope?
The two famous opposing generals at the Battle of Antietam.
Who were Robert E. Lee and George B. McClellan?
What brown homespun uniforms of the Rebs were called.
What is "butternut"?
Fought in once peaceful peach orchards and near a church in April 1862, but one of the bloodiest single battles in U.S. history.
What is the Battle of Shiloh?
This brilliant Confederate general become 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?
This "reverberated across the field at most battles, including the Second Bull Run," to inspire and aid Confederate soldiers.
What was the Rebel yell?
Nearly 5,000 in one day.
Of all the food and drink given to Union's soldiers, this was their favorite.
What is coffee... with lots of sugar?
U.S. Grant for the Union and Albert Sidney Johnston for the Confederates.
Who commanded the armies at bloody Shiloh?
The Battle of Antietam was fought in this "northern" state.
What is Maryland?
This Union victory in September 1862 was crucial for Union morale and for successful diplomacy preceding The Emancipation Proclomation.
What was the Battle of Antietam/Sharpsburg?
This side should have won the battle more decisively.
What is the Union/North?
Thirteen dollars.
What is the pay given to a Union soldier each month?
This key southern port was captured by the Union Navy in April 1862.
What is New Orleans?
Known for his fancy facial hair, this Union general commanded troops in a losing effort at Fredericksburg.
Who was General Ambrose Burnsides? (We wore "sideburns" - a reversal of his last name).
By all definition of battle, the failure of the Union troops to take the line of hills called Mare's Heights above Fredericksburg, Virginia, in December 1862 was called this.
What is a disaster/massacre?
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)?