Generals
General Robert E. Lee
What is the commander of the Confederate Army?
The first major battle of the Civil War.
What is the First Battle of Bull Run?
Winfield Scott's original strategy on how to crush the rebellion.
What is the Anaconda Plan?
This weapon was used by union and confederate forces, and include the 12 pound Howitzer, the 10 pound Parrot rifle, and the 3 inch ordnance rifle.
What is a cannon?
The army that won the Civil War.
What is the Union Army?
General Ulysses S. Grant
What is the commander of the Union Army and 18th president of the United States?
The first battle of the American Civil War and signaled the start of the war.
What is the Battle of Fort Sumter?
A strategy of winning by not losing and simply wearing out the enemy by prolonging the war and making it too costly to continue.
What is attrition?
A type of bullet that was used throughout the Civil War. Designed to expand while traveling along the rifle barrel, it increased muzzle velocity as well as providing spin to the bullet, expanding its accuracy and range.
What is the minie ball?
The year the Civil War ended.
What is 1865?
Led a smaller Confederate force in the Shenandoah Valley Campaign of 1862, and also displayed his superior military skills at the First Battle of Bull Run, the Second Battle of Bull Run, Antietam, and Fredericksburg.
What is General Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson?
This battle was one of the most important battles of the Civil War for the North. This was a major turning point in the war.
What is the Battle of Gettysburg?
A small group of combatants use military tactics including ambushes, sabotage, raids, petty warfare, hit-and-run tactics, and mobility to fight a larger and less-mobile traditional military.
What is guerilla warfare?
A sidearm commonly used because of it's smaller size and easy handling.
What is a handgun?
The bloodiest single day in American history, when 3,654 Union and Confederate soldiers were killed on September 17, 1862.
What is the Battle of Antietam?
Famous for his March to the Sea through Georgia in November and December of 1864 in which the Union Army destroyed numerous military targets and civilian property.
What is General William T. Sherman?
Fought over two days from April 6 to April 7 in 1862. It took place in southwestern Tennessee and it was the first major battle to take place in the western theater of war.
What is the Battle of Shiloh?
An infantry assault ordered by Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee against Maj. Gen. George G. Meade's Union positions on July 3, 1863, the last day of the Battle of Gettysburg.
What is pickets charge?
A gun designed for longer distance with high accuracy and velocity.
What is a rifle?
The percentage of all Southern white males between the ages of 18 and 40 who died in the war.
What is 30%?
The hero of Gettysburg he was one of the most intelligent generals of the war. He led his troops in holding several Confederate attacks and led an amazing counter attack which caught the enemy by surprise.
What is General Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain?
Part of a campaign by the Union to push back the Confederate Army deep into Virginia. The campaign was called the Overland Campaign and eventually led to the Siege of Petersburg and the end of the Civil War.
What is the Battle of Spotsylvania?
A position of advantage or superiority in a battle.
What is higher ground?
Large-caliber guns used in warfare on land.
What is artillery?
The number of black soldiers who fought in the Union Army. By the end of the war, they made up 10% of the Union troops.
What is 180,000?