Common Soldiers
Who are Lee and Meade?
This proclamation, issued officially January 1, 1863, freed the slaves in all rebellious states.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation.
Important organization founded to ensure the health and safety of Union soldiers.
What is the U.S. Sanitary Commission?
This was Lee's second invasion of the North, having lost this battle in Maryland nine and a half months ealier.
What was the Battle of Antietam (Sept. 17, 1862)?
The main speaker at the commemoration of the Gettysburg battlefield.
The Confederates were feeling confident after this victory just weeks before.
What was the Battle of Chncellorsville?
General Lee won a "Pyrrhic victory" - a win at a very high cost - at Chancellorsville when he watched his valuable general die from wounds inflicted by his own men.
Who was Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson?
Most famous female Confederate spy who worked in Washington, D.C.
Who was Rose Greenhow?
The North concentrated its troops on this strategic rise east of the Confederate position.
What is Cemetery Ridge?
The length of President Lincoln's speech.
What was two to three minutes?
What England might do if Lee whips Meade in the next pivotal battle.
What is recognize the Confederacy?
The victory at Vicksburg did this to the Confederacy.
What is split the Confederacy?
These two famous women worked as nurses and have been called "angels of the battlefield".
Who were Dorothea Dix and Clara Barton?
General George Pickett's charge, the last great attack of the Confederacy, saw this many Rebs assault the Union center on Cemetery Ridge.
What is approximately 13,000 soliders?
The invitation inviting Lincoln to speak at Gettysburg requested him to do this.
What is make a "few appropriate remarks"?
By late June 1863 this was a major problem for the Confederate army so far from home.
What are supplies?
Both Vicksburg and Gettysburg ended on nearly this same often celebrated day.
What is July 4, 1863?
Some female nurses of the Civil War later founded this international organization.
What is the American Red Cross?
General Lee and his remaining troops did this on July 4 - one day after the last charge.
What is retreat toward Virginia?
Eighty-seven.
The Confederate soldier, no lean, tough, and a fighting veteran, can march between these numbers of miles per day - UNBELIEVEABLE!
What is 20-30 miles!
Vicksburg is a fortress city on high ground above this vital river.
What is the Mississippi?
Patriotism, adventure, a desire to be closer to her husband, brother, or father, personal freedom, and sloppy medical exams.
Why and how did some women become Civil War soldiers?
Fifty-one thousand men.
How many soldiers on both sides were casualties after three brutal days at Gettysburg?
Lincoln hoped the Union would have this to show that the men who died at Gettysburg four and half months earlier.
What is a "new birth of freedom"?