Early Civil War
The first Slave State to secede from the Union was in December of 1860 in protest of this man’s election.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
Confederate General Longstreet was camped here when a spy named Harrison informed him that the Union Army was coming down from Chambersburg.
What is South Mountain?
Grant's middle initial S means this.
What is nothing?
After Gettysburg, Grant assumes control of this army under the direct authority of the President.
What is the whole United States military?
Scientists believe this Big event took place nearly 13.7 billion years ago, creating the laws of physics within the first few seconds.
What is the Big Bang?
This man gained a reputation for replacing his generals, changing out McClellan for Hooker, Hooker for Burnside, and Burnside for Meade in the first three years of the war.
Who is President Lincoln?
On the second day of Battle, this man led his regiment in a sweeping bayonet charge, saving the Union flank from being overwhelmed.
Who is Joshua Chamberlain?
This Civil War General was a devout Christian with strange oddities such as his refusal to have pepper on his food or his strange love of lemons.
Who is “Stonewall” Jackson?
Five days after Lee surrendered at Appomattox, this tragedy struck the United States.
What is the assassination of President Lincoln?
Hydrogen is the smallest atom, made up of a single proton and neutron with an electron orbiting. So it is fitting it has this simple Atomic Symbol.
What is the letter H?
This is one of the three Confederate States that were isolated after the fall of Vicksburg.
What are Texas, Arkansas, and Louisiana?
The defeat of the Confederate troops at Gettysburg is considered this in the Civil War, causing everyone to re-evaluate their circumstances.
What is a Turning Point?
As a dower man, even his father would call him “Old Pete”, and it was this quiet pessimism and personal tragedies that led Lee to ignore his warnings of disaster at Gettysburg.
Who is Longstreet?
When Grant and Lee decided terms at Appomattox, what Brigadier General was entrusted with leading the Union’s acceptance of Lee’s surrender?
Who is Brigadier General Joshua L. Chamberlain?
Most things become heavy and sink when they are in their solid form. Think of a piece of solid iron sinking in molten iron. However, this molecule floats when solid, making it one of the strange elemental basis of life on Earth.
What is Water?
During the First Battle of the War at Manassas, local citizens from both sides of the war did this foolishly.
What is set up picnics beside the battlefield?
These two close friends and Generals of opposing sides were both wounded at Gettysburg, mere yards from each other, though they did not know it.
Who are Armistead and Hancock?
This Confederate General encountered Lee long after the war and dined with him. When asked about his dinner with Lee by a reporter, the man turned cold and said, “That man killed my boys,” referencing losing nearly his whole division at Gettysburg.
Who is Gen. George Pickett?
One of the last great battles of the war was the Second Battle of the Wilderness, also known as the Battle of Spotsylvania Court House, with each side facing massive casualties with this end result.
What is a stalemate/no one won the battle?
Turtles and frogs are amphibious creatures, which means this, unlike Tortoises, who will die if you try to get them to swim.
What is able to breathe air and live in water?
Lee originally called this eccentric man, his “warhorse”, and finest battlefield tactician, until he died at Chancellorsville after being wounded by his own troops.
Who is “Stonewall” Jackson?
Who is Robert E. Lee?
He is considered the last casualty of the Civil War, after succumbing to a bullet wound to his hips, dying in 1914, 51 years after receiving the Congressional Medal of Honor for his leadership and heroism at Gettysburg.
Who is Gen. Joshua L. Chamberlain?
Lee abandons Richmond to defend Petersburg due to it being this, entrenching and fortifying the city against a siege by the Army of the Potomac.
What is the last Confederate railroad hub?
According to Isaac Newton, "An object in motions tends to..."
What is "stay in motion"?