Battles
These two battles led to General Grant becoming known as "Unconditional Surrender" Grant.
What are Fort Henry and Fort Donelson?
This man argued with Lincoln about adding black troops to the Union Army.
Who is Frederick Douglass?
This was the South's Original plan instead they kept trying to invade.
What was commit to a defensive war?
This was the first Union Ironclad.
What is the Monitor?
This Union General held the middle of the line at Gettysburg during Pickett's Charge.
Who is Winfield Scott Hancock?
Famous before the war as the site of British General Cornwallis's defeat and surrender ending the revolution, General McClellan laid siege to this city when he finally moved his troops.
What is Yorktown?
This Missouri Confederate soldier ran away and abandoned the army before General Grant could raid his camp.
Who is Mark Twain?
A Confederate General fooled General McClellan at Yorktown by doing this to make him think there were more Confederate soldiers present than there really were.
What is he marched them in a large circle?
This was the reason why the first battle of Ironclads important
What is it changed Naval warfare and made every other navy obsolete?
This Union Cavalry officer held off the Confederates north of Gettysburg so the Union could establish a proper defense.
Who is General John Buford?
The Battle of Shiloh was fought at this riverboat landing named for a northern city.
What is Pittsburg Landing?
This Major wrote a letter home to his wife before Bull Run.
Who is Sullivan Ballou?
This was the plan to starve the South by strangling their ports.
What is the Anaconda Plan?
This was the first Ironclad produced by the Confederates.
What is the Merrimack?
This Union General took command after Burnside's failure at Fredericksburg.
Who is General Joe Hooker?
This Battle, which has two names, outside of Richmond cost each side around 6,000 casualties even though it changed absolutely nothing.
What is Fair Oaks or Seven Pines?
This nurse would later go on to create the American Red Cross.
Who is Clara Barton?
This was Col. Chamberlain's plan at Gettysburg after the 20th Maine ran out of ammunition.
What is a Bayonet Charge?
A local large naval yard that produced war ships for the Union was located here.
What is Carondelet?
This General took command of the first black regiment from Massachusetts.
Who is Robert Gould Shaw?
This battle saw the end of Stonewall Jackson as he was shot by his own men.
What is the Battle of Chancellorsville?
This runaway slave stole a Confederate ship and sailed it to Washington DC.
Who is Robert Smalls?
This was Grant's original plan to take Vicksburg.
What is build a canal to move past the city to the south?
This was the first Naval Battle of the Civil War that changed the world.
What is the Battle of Hampton Roads?
This General, and engineer, was responsible for picking the ground to defend at Gettysburg. He stood on a rock overlooking the entire battlefield.
Who is Gen. Gouverneur K. Warren?