Battles
Pickett's Charge took place in this battle.
What is the Battle of Gettysburg?
Most important figure in the war in the West.
Who is General Ulysses S. Grant?
The constitutional protection against unlawful imprisonment.
What is Habeas Corpus?
Speech given by Lincoln that pushed Union support.
What is the Gettysburg Address?
Woman who wrote about Confederate struggles.
Who was Mary Boykin Chesnut?
This battle was the bloodiest single day battle in the Civil War.
What is the Battle of Antietam?
Confederate General who is known for standing in place and not retrearting.
Who is General Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson?
The destroying of both military and civilian resources during war.
What is total war?
Town where General Lee surrendered, ending the war.
What is the Appomattox Courthouse?
Woman who supplied soldiers and inspired the American Red Cross.
Who was Clara Barton?
Battle where the Union won greater control of the Mississippi.
What is the Battle of Shiloh?
Confederate General who fought for his land but not his ideals.
Who was General Robert E. Lee?
Warship heavily guarded with armor used by the Confederacy and the Union.
What is an ironclad?
Series of battles where the Union faced major losses but still held the upper hand.
What is the Wilderness Campaign?
Woman who headed more than 3,000 other women as unpaid nurses.
Who was Dorthea Dix?
This battle ended Grant's plans to advance on the Confederate capitol.
What is the Battle of Cold Harbor?
General who developed the Union's basic two-part strategy.
Who was Winfield Scott?
Delaware, Kentucky, Maryland, and Missouri are considered this.
What are the border states?
Union movement where General Sherman led troops from Southern Tennessee to Savannah Georgia leaving a path of destruction behind him.
What was Sherman's March to the Sea?
Woman who helped form the U.S. sanitary commission.
Who was Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell?
Battle when General Lee pushed Union out of Virginia.
What is the Second Battle of Bull Run?
Union General who captured Yorktown.
Who was General George McClellan?
Southern belief that Britain would support Confederacy if supplied with products farmed by slaves.
What is cotton diplomacy?
The date that Grant surrounded Lee's army in Richmond.
Woman who established a hospital in Richmond.
Who was Sally Louisa Tompkins?