BATTLES
THIS EARLY BATTLE FOUGHT SOUTHWEST OF SPRINGFIELD HELPED TO SECURE THE STATE OF MISSOURI FOR THE UNION IN THE CIVIL WAR
WHAT IS THE BATTLE OF WILSON'S CREEK
THIS CONFEDERATE GENERAL COMMANDED THE ARMY OF NORTHERN VIRGINIA DURING MOST OF THE CIVIL WAR AND IS STILL CONSIDERED THE GREATEST FIELD COMMANDER IN U.S. MILITARY HISTORY
WHO WAS ROBERT E. LEE
WHEN THE EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION WAS ISSUED IT HAD THE STRATEGIC EFFECT OF PREVENTING TWO COUNTRIES FROM INTERVENING IN THE CIVILWAR BECAUSE NEITHER COUNTRY WANTED TO SUPPORT SLAVERY. THOSE TWO COUNTRIES WERE
WHAT ARE FRANCE AND BRITAIN
GENERAL THOMAS "STONEWALL" JACKSON AQUIRED HIS NICKNAME IN WHAT EARLY SOUTHERN VICTORY?
WHAT IS THE FIRST BATTLE OF BULL RUN OR THE FIRST BATTLE OF MANASAS
CONFEDERATE ARMIES WERE USUALLY NAMED AFTER AREAS (ARMY OF NORTHERN VIRGINIA). WHAT WERE UNION ARMIES USUALLY NAMED FOR?
WHAT ARE RIVERS
THIS BATTLE WAS THE FIRST MAJOR BATTLE IN THE EASTERN THEATER AND A SOUTHERN VICTORY
WHAT IS THE FIRST BATTLE OF BULL RUN OR MANSAS
THIS GENERAL WHO THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON ONCE CALLED THE "GREATEST LIVING GENERAL" HAD LED TROOPS IN THE WAR OF 1812 AND THE MEXICAN WAR. WHO WAS THIS GENERAL WHO WAS THE GENERAL IN CHIEF OF THE U.S. ARMY AT THE START OF THE CIVIL WAR
WHO WAS WINFIELD SCOTT
THE STRATEGY PURSUED BY THE SOUTH THROUGHOUT THE CIVIL WAR WAS:
WHAT IS STRATEGY OF EXHAUSTION
WILL ACCEPT STRATEGY OF SURVIVAL
WHAT IS THE MINNIE BALL
THE SOUTH CALLED THIS BATTLE WHICH WAS THE SINGLE BLOODIEST DAY OF THE CIVIL WAR THE BATTLE OF SHARPSBURG, BUT IT IS BETTER KNOWN FOR THE UNION NAME AS THE BATTLE OF -
WHAT IS ANTIETAM
WHAT IS THE BATTLE OF FREDERICKSBURG
THIS GENERAL'S PLAN FOR THE PENNISULAR CAMPAIGN WAS BRILLIANT, BUT IT HAD ONE CRITICAL FLAW, AS A COMMANDER HE WAS TOO CAUTIOUS, TOO SLOW, AND HE CONSTANTLY DELUDED HIMSELF HE WAS OUTNUMBERED BY THE ENEMY. WHO WAS THIS GENERAL WHO COMMANDED THE ARMY OF THE POTAMAC TWICE AND WAS FIRED TWICE.
GENERAL MC CLELLAN
SCOTT'S PLAN FOR A COMPREHENSIVE STRATEGY FOR DEFEATING THE SOUTH WITH A WELL TRAINED ARMY AND A NAVAL BLOCKADE AND CAPTURING THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER WAS DESCRIBED AS A GIANT CONSTRICTING SNAKE. IT WAS KNOWN AS THE-
WHAT IS THE ANACONDA STRATEGY
ON SOUTHERN BELT BUCKLES WHAT DID CSA STAND FOR
WHAT IS CONFEDERATE STATES OF AMERICA
NAME EITHER OF THE TWO IRONCLAD SHIPS THAT FOUGHT THE FIRST DUEL BETWEEN ARMORED VESSELS
WHAT IS/ARE THE MONITOR AND/OR THE MERRIMAC
THIS BATTLE FOUGHT IN 1862 IN TENNESSEE WAS ONE OF THE BLOODIEST BATTLES IN MODERN HISTORY UP TO THAT TIME. THE SOUTH SURPISED THE NORTH AND WON THE FIRST DAY, BUT THE UNION WHEN REINFORCED WON THE BATTLE ON THE SECOND DAY
WHAT IS THE BATTLE OF SHILOH
UNION GENERAL SERVED AS A CORPS COMMANDER UNDER GRANT AND LATER COMMANDED HIS OWN ARMY. EXCELLENT BATTLEFIELD COMMANDER AND STRATEGIST. ONCE CONSIDERED INSANE BECAUSE HE PREDICTED A LONG AND BLOODY WAR.
WHO WAS GEN SHERMAN
WHAT WAS THE UNION STRATEGY IN THE U.S. CIVIL WAR
STRATEGY OF ANNIHILATION
ALTHOUGH THE SOUTH CLAIMED BOTH MISSOURI AND KENTUCKY AS PART OF THE CONFEDERACY HOW MANY STATES WERE ACTUALLY PART OF THE CONFEDERATE STATES OF AMERICA
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WHAT WERE THE SURRENDER TERMS GRANT OFFERED AT THE BATTLE OF FORT DONNELSON
UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER
IN THE BATTLES IN THIS VALLEY GEN JACKSON OUT MANEUVERED AND DEFEATED THREE UNION ARMIES. WHAT IS THIS VALLEY WHICH HAD SUCH GREAT STRATEGIC VALUE IN THE WAR IN THE EAST
THIS UNION GENERAL FOUGHT A BLOODY FIGHT FOR A BRIDGE IN THE BATTLE OF ANTIETAM. HE BECAME COMMANDER OF THE ARMY OF THE POTOMAC AND ORDERED THE DISASTEROUS ATTACK ON MAYRE'S HEIGHTS AT FREDERICKSBURG. HE SUPPOSEDLY GAVE THE NAME TO A STYLE OF MEN'S FACIAL HAIR. HE WAS-
WHO WAS GEN AMBROSE BURNSIDE.
ONE OF THE MAIN STRATEGIC IDEAS OF THE CONFEDERACY WAS THAT ENGLISH MILLS COULD NOT SURVIVE WITHOUT THIS SOUTHERN CROP AND THIS WOULD CAUSE THE GOVERNMENT TO INTERVENE IN THE CIVIL WAR. WHAT WAS THE CROP?
WHAT IS COTTON
ON APRIL 12, 1861 CONFEDERATES OPENED FIRE ON THIS FORT IN CHARLESTON HARBOR STARTING THE CIVIL WAR
WHAT IS FORT SUMTER
IF YOU ARE A UNION SOLDIER AND DEER COME BOUNDING OUT OF THE WOODS INTO YOUR CAMP WHAT DOES THAT MEAN/