Marching & Drilling
This word always precedes commands to a company of men.
What is "company?"
The first state to secede, or leave, the Union.
What is South Carolina?
The "first shots" of the Civil War were fired here.
What's Fort Sumter, South Carolina?
The first major pitched battle of the Civil War.
What was Bull Run?
General Joseph E. Johnston.
Who commanded the Confederate troops at Bull Run?
The Civil War command, "in place, rest" is the equivalent to today's army command of this.
What is "at ease"?
New rebel government's official name.
What is the Confederate States of America?
Missouri, Kentucky, Delaware, and Maryland.
What border states remained in the Union?
This side won the first battle.
What was the Confederacy/South?
The nickname give to General Thomas Jackson, who inspired his troops to hold fast against the Union troops at Bull Run.
What was "Stonewall"?
The two marching formations for Civil War armies.
What are company front and column formations?
First and only Confederate president.
Who was Jefferson Davis?
Lincoln asked for 75,000 of these to fight for the Union in 1861.
What are volunteers?
The South named its first major battle after this nearby town.
What was Manassas Junction?
Only 30 miles away.
How many miles is Bull Run from the Union capital?
Troops do this when they hear the command: "Forward".
What is march?
The issue of Civil War lies with them, said the Union president in his inaugural address.
Who are/is the Southerners; the South?
President Lincoln used this particular constitutional power or duty as he called out troops and made decisions about war strategy.
What is Commander-in-Chief?
He replaced General Winfield Scott after the North's defeat in the war's first pitched battle.
Who was General George B. McClellan?
They celebrated victory and exuded an overconfidence after Bull Run.
Who were the Confederates?
This is necessary, often tedious, and always repetitious.
What is drill?
The election of this man to the presidency in November of 1860 provoked the secessionist crisis.
Who was Abraham Lincoln?
These two capital cities were 105 miles apart.
What are Washington, D.C., and Richmond, Virginia?
Because of his stature, General McClellan was nicknamed this by his troops.
What was "Little Mac"?
North: 2,886; South: 1,982
What were the total casualties after Bull Run?