Weapons
A muzzle-loading rifle can be reloaded __ times per minute.
What is three times?
The railroad that crossed the Susquehanna River in Harrisburg, PA
What was the Pennsylvania Railroad?
Sherman's March to the Sea ended in this Southern city.
What is Savannah, GA?
The largest city in the Confederacy, with a population of 168,000 in 1860
What was New Orleans?
This bugle call means march or combat.
What was boots and saddles?
The percentage of casualties caused by artillery fire during the Civil War
What is 10%
A vital supply line that crossed the river at Harpers Ferry, VA (now West Virginia)
What was The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad?
In this city Abraham Lincoln was nominated for the presidency in 1860
What is Chicago, Illinois?
The number of states which seceded from the Union
What were 11?
This bugle call in 1862 signified the end of the day at 10:00 pm before "taps" replaced it.
What was Tattoo?
This significant Naval warfare event happened on February 17, 1864
What was the sinking of the USS Housatonic by the H.L.Hunley?
This city was the hub of every railroad linking Richmond with the Eastern Confederacy.
What was Petersburg?
Jefferson Davis regarded this location in his home state as the "Gibraltar of the West."
What was Vicksburg, Mississippi?
The number of men in Pennsylvania Units who reached Washington on April 18, 1861, constituting its only important defense
What were approximately 500 or five companies?
President Lincoln suggested this communication strategy/system for military use in June 1862.
What were beams of smoke by day and fires by night?
The amount of ammunition, which was standard issue for infantry soldiers when a Federal commander planned an attack
What was 60 rounds per man?
Because of this problem, the Southern troops had to detrain and board another train at state lines.
What were the different rail gauges?
This Confederate capital was over half destroyed by retreating Southerners who set fire to cotton bales to impede the enemy
What was Columbia, SC?
The chances of surviving a wound in the Civil War days
What was 7 to 1 or 86%”
Before photo technology, the news media usually illustrated their battlefield dispatches with this process.
What were the woodblock engravings of the artist's sketches?
These devices used at Yorktown by Confederate General Gabriel Rains were rebuked and considered to be "ungentlemanly" conduct of war.
What were buried land mines?
This all-important railroad led from Wilmington, NC, to Richmond, VA.
What was the Wilmington and Weldon Railroad?
The fighting at Snodgrass Hill was fought during this significant battle
What was Chickamauga, GA?
In 1862, this was the agreed-upon prisoner (privates) exchange rate for one general.
What were 60 privates?
This federal commander was said to have "foamed at the mouth" when seeing a newspaper reporter because he despised them.
Who was William Tecumseh Sherman?