Battles
I am the first official battle of the Civil War; I was fought very close to Washington, D. C.
What is the First Battle of Bull Run?
I was the commander of all Confederate military forces.
Who is Robert E. Lee?
I am the number of federal forts still held by the Union once the Confederacy started seizing federal property which now lay in the Confederate states.
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I am the site of the first capitol of the Confederacy.
What is Montgomery, Alabama?
I am the first Republican President in the US.
Who is Abraham Lincoln
Name the city where the Confederates shelled their own people in order to keep the Union from re-taking the city (although the Union took the city anyway).
What is Chattanooga, Tennessee?
I am the general who marched through Georgia destroying it.
Who is General Sherman?
The South's inability to export me caused the economic decline of the South.
What is cotton?
General Grant laid siege to me for 9 months before I surrendered my city which was the last capitol of the Confederacy.
What is Richmond, Virginia?
I am the first and only President of the Confederacy.
Who is Jefferson Davis?
I am the battle which was a turning point for the war; the South never again ventured into Union territory after I was over.
What is the Battle of Gettysburg?
I am the general who laid siege to Vicksburg, Mississippi as well as Richmond, Virginia.
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
I am the last city through which goods could be carried up and down the Mississippi River; once I fell, the South lost all access to the Mississippi.
What is Vicksburg?
I separated from my state and became a new state in the Union when my state decided to side with the Confederacy and leave the Union.
What is West Virginia?
I was the commander of Fort Sumter when the Confederates fired on the fort.
Who is Robert Anderson?
Over what city was Grant's wilderness campaign fought?
What is Richmond, Virginia?
I am a Confederate general who was wounded by friendly fire which caused me to contract a fatal case of pneumonia.
Who is Stonewall Jackson?
I am the city/body of water which held all the Confederate battleships.
What is Mobile Bay, Alabama?
Why were there no pictures of President Lincoln giving the Gettysburg Address even though there was a photographer there with a camera?
President Lincoln gave such a short speech there wasn't time for a picture
I was a graduate assistant to Robert Anderson at West Point but found myself leading an army against him as a Confederate general.
Who is General Beauregard?
Name the Union general who replaced George McDowell after the Union's defeat at the First Battle of Bull Run.
Who was George McClellan?
Name the general who commanded the "Army of the Potomac."
Who was Ulysses S. Grant?
I am the location where General Lee surrendered to General Grant.
What is Appomattox Courthouse, Virginia?
General Lee had this many troops and thus decided to surrender to General Grant and end the Civil War.
What is 30,000?
I am the President who took no action in the lame duck period between the 1860 election and the formation of the Confederacy.
Who is President Buchanan?