The Union
This is the number of states the Union had at the beginning of the Civil War, including border states.
What is 23?
This was the first state to secede from the union.
What is South Carolina?
President Lincoln's term spanned for 4 years from this year on.
What is 1861?
This was the battle that kicked off the Civil War.
What is the battle of Fort Sumter?
He was appointed as the overall commander for the Confederate States army.
Who was Robert E. Lee?
He was President of the Union right before Lincoln took over.
Who was President Buchanan?
By February 1, 1861 this many states had seceded from the union.
What is 7?
Lincoln before he became president operated a store but after that he became one of these in Springfield.
What is an attorney?
This battle was one of the earlier battles of the Civil War starring General Irvin McDowell (from the north) and General Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson.
What is the First battle of Bull Run?
This was a southern general who had earned the nickname "Stonewall" at the first battle of bull run.
Who was General Thomas Jackson?
He was the Union's Vice president from 1861 to 1865.
Who was Hannibal Hamlin?
He was the President of the Confederacy.
Who was Jefferson Davis?
Lincoln was born in this year.
What is 1809?
At this Battle almost 20,000 men were either wounded or killed, more than the War of 1812, the Revolutionary War and the Mexican War Combined.
What is the Battle of Shiloh?
He was a Union General who would go on to become the 18th U.S. President.
Who was Ulysses S. Grant?
After the secession of the eleventh state it left 4 slave states in the union otherwise known as this type of states.
What are Border States?
This was the confederate capital.
What is Richmond, Virginia?
In 1858 Abraham Lincoln ran for a seat in the U.S. Senate that was at the time being held by this man.
Who was Stephen Douglas?
This battle is a sequel of one of the earlier battles that resulted in a win and a new nickname for General Jackson.
What is the Second Battle of Bull Run?
This man would replace Irvin McDowell and also be on the losing side of the Seven Days' Battle.
Who was General George McClellan?
When the Civil War began these three states though being far out west were still apart of the Union.
What are Oregon, California, and Nevada?
On this date a special state convention in South Carolina was held to officially declare that it's union with the other states was dissolved.
What is December 20, 1860
This was the title of the play Abraham Lincoln attended at which he died during.
What is "Our American Cousin"?
This is perhaps the most famous battle of the Civil war and the most important because of the crushing blow it dealt the south and General Robert E. Lee.
What is Battle of Gettysburg?
This Confederate Generals Army was ultimately stopped at Perryville, Kentucky (but not before they had spread through most of Kentucky) in 1862 by General Don Carlos Buell.
Who was General Braxton Bragg?