Not So Fun Facts
This battle was the single bloodiest day in American history?
What is the Battle of Antietam?
The South came up with this floating invention designed to break the Anaconda Plan's blockade of southern ports?
What are ironclad ships?
The Battle of Antietam/Sharpsburg happened on this date.
What is September 17, 1862?
The close call victory at the Battle of Antietam allowed Lincoln to issue this document which freed all slaves in rebel states.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
This brand new sport was a "home run" for soldiers looking to beat the boredom of camp life?
What is baseball?
About this many people were killed or wounded in one day at the Battle of Antietam.
What is 20,000?
This bone shattering lead bullet was named after the French man who invented it.
What is the minie ball?
This was the average age of a soldier in the Civil War.
What is 25?
This 3 day battle saw over 100,000 troops fighting on a small farm in Pennsylvania.
What is Gettysburg?
This group of people sometimes went to great lengths to disguise themselves in order to be able to fight in the Civil War?
What are women?
Approximately this many enslaved African Americans existed in the South during the time of the Civil War.
What is 4 million?
Soldiers carried one of these two brands of rifles along with a cartridge box, canteen, haversack, cap box, bed roll, and bayonet.
What is Springfield or Enfield?
Lee was greatly outnumbered during the Battle of Antietam only having this many troops under his command.
What is 38,000?
On the final day of the Battle of Gettysburg, this failed Confederate strategy led to a massive loss of life.
What is Pickett's Charge?
This was the nickname soldiers gave peanuts (they even wrote a song about them).
What are goober peas?
Robert E. Lee made a huge blunder before the Battle of Antietam by losing his battle plans that he tried to hide by wrapping them up in these?
What are cigars?
This rapid fire style of gun was first used during the Civil War?
What is the Gatling machine gun?
The Battle of Gettysburg started on this date?
What is July 1, 1863?
In order to completely cut off the South from all supplies, the Union Army needed to capture this waterway that runs from North to South.
What is the Mississippi River?
This tooth-breaking bread like food item was essential for soldiers in the Civil War but usually came infested with bugs?
What is hardtack?
This killed more soldiers during the Civil War than fighting in battle.
What is disease?
The new style rifled musket helped soldiers to accurately hit a target from this distance.
What is 250 to 350 yards?
The North suffered this many soldiers killed in action during the Battle of Gettysburg.
What is 3,155?
The Union Army completed their second major victory in as many days in July 1863 in this city in Mississippi.
What is Vicksburg?
Soldiers in the Civil War sometimes marched this many miles in one day.
What is 30 miles?