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The first and only confederate president
Who is Jefferson Davis?
The first southern state to secede from the Union
What is South Carolina?
The first shots of the Civil War were fired here
What is Fort Sumter?
William Tecumseh Sherman led 100,000 trops from Tennessee to Savannah, Georgia
What is "Sherman's March?"
The Battle of Gettysburg took place one day before...
What is the siege of Vicksburg?
Who are the 54th Massachusetts Infantry or Who are the Glory Roaders?
The rebel government's official name
What is the Confederate States of America?
The first pitched battle of the Civil War
What is the Battle of Bull Run/Manassass Junction?
A person who is accused of a crime has the right to challenge their accusation using the justice system
What is "habeus corpus?"
Nickname given to Confederate General Thomas Jackson, who inspired his troops to hold fast against Union troops at Bull Run.
Who is Stonewall Jackson?
The total number of deaths in the entire Civil War (must be within 5,000 near the number)
What is 618,000 deaths?
Missouri, Kentucky, Delaware, and Maryland
What are the border states (slave states that were part of the Union)?
The two ironclad ships that fought at Hampton Roads, Virginia in the first battle of these types of ships.
What are the Monitor and Merrimac (or Virginia).
The act of formally withdrawing an organization
What is "secede?"
Brown home-spun uniforms of the Rebs earned them this nickname
What are "butternuts?"
She wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin
Who is Harriet Beecher Stowe?
The two main opposing generals at Gettysburg
Who are Lee and Meade?
The last attack at Gettysburg that proved disastrous for the South
What is Pickett's Charge?
A ship covered in iron plates
Union officer at Gettysburg who had his leg blown off and preserved in a barrel of alcohol
Who is Daniel Sickels?
This freed the slaves on January 1, 1863; however, it was more symbolic than anything.
What is the "Emancipation Proclamation?"
To dedicate a military cemetary for the fallen soldiers in Gettysburg, Lincoln gave this speech
What is the Gettysburg Address?
Fought in a once peaceful peach orchard in Tennessee and near a church by the same name (means "peace" in Hebrew)
What is the battle of Shiloh?
An often fatal disease of the human intestines due to lack of clean water
What is "dysentery?"
What is 87?