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100
What word a Union Soldier called the attack up Marye's Heights.
What is suicidal?
100
After capturing New Orleans, the Union got control of this river.
What is the Mississippi?
100
Baseball during the Civil War was called this.
What is Rounders or Town Ball?
100
The ranking number of his Presidency.
What is 16th?
100
Biscuits given to soldiers
What is hardtack?
200
What brown homespun uniforms of the Rebs were called.
What is butternut?
200
160 acres.
How large was the free plot of land given to homesteaders/settlers according to the Homestead Law of 1862?
200
Alexander Jay Cartwright and Abner Doubleday.
Who developed the early rules and organization of baseball.
200
Good Friday 1865
What is April 14th, Lincoln's assassination?
200
Runaway slave transportation
What is the Underground Railroad?
300
Of all the food and drink given to Union's soldiers, this was their favorite.
What is coffee...with lots of sugar?
300
This key southern port was captured by the Union Navy in April 1862.
What is New Orleans?
300
Outfielders were called this in early baseball.
What were scouts?
300
Wife of Lincoln
Who is Mary Todd Lincoln?
300
September 1862 Union victory was crucial for diplomacy preceding the Emancipation Proclamation.
What is Battle of Antietam/Sharpsburg?
400
Thirteen dollars
What is the pay given to a Union soldier each month?
400
Monitor and Merrimac
What were the two ships that fought at Hampton Roads in the first ever battle between ironclad ships?
400
Fans were called this in Civil War baseball.
What were standees?
400
Assassin
Who is John Wilkes Booth?
400
One named for town and other named for river.
What is the reason for the North and South to name battles differently?
500
Hoarse Greeley interviews a soldier in December of 1862 about a famous battle that had just occured.
What is the Battle of Fredericksburg?
500
U.S. Grant for the Union and Albert Sidnet Johnson for the Confederates.
Who commanded the armies at bloody Shiloh?
500
What were batters called in early baseball?
What were strikers?
500
Major Rathbone and Clara Harris
Who was the couple sitting in the box with the Lincolns?
500
Four score and seven years ago...
What is the Emancipation Proclamation beginning?
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