Important Events
First shots fired during the Civil War
What is Fort Sumter?
First major battle of the Civil War, won by Confederates.
What is The Battle of Bull Run?
Battle fought between General Lee and General McClellan in Maryland at Antietam Creek.
What is the Battle of Antietam?
Union's naval strategy during the Civil War.
What is blockade the South?
Armored ships during the Civil War.
What are Ironsides?
To leave a group or union.
What is to secede?
Bag civil war soldiers used to carry food and ammunition.
What is a haversack?
Knife that attaches to the end of a rifle.
What is a bayonet?
Role Grant played during the Civil War in the west.
What is Grant helped take control of the Mississippi River?
Battle in which the army gained control of the Mississippi River Valley.
What is the Battle of Shiloh?
Admiral that led the attack on New Orleans.
Who is David Farragut?
Siege Grant's troops began in Mississippi.
What is the Siege of Vicksburg?
The freeing of the slaves.
What is emancipation?
Speech Lincoln gave that freed the Confederate slaves.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
Another word the War Department used for escaped slaves.
What is contrabands?
Massachusetts Infantry that consisted mostly of free African Americans.
What is the 54th Massachusetts Infantry?
Constitutional protection against unlawful imprisonment.
What is Habeas Corpus?
Founded the American Red Cross.
Who is Clara Barton?
Key battle that turned the tide against the Confederates.
What is the Battle of Gettysburg?
Charge led by the largest Confederate unit against the Union during the Battle of Gettysburg.
What is Pickett's Charge?
Speech given at the dedication of a Civil War battlefield by President Lincoln on November 19th, 1863.
Series of battles designed by the Union to capture Richmond Virginia.
What is the Wilderness Campaign?
General that carried out the Union plan to destroy southern railroads and industries.
Who is General William Tecumseh Sherman?
During his March to the Sea, Sherman practiced this strategy of destroying civilian and economic resources.
What is "total war"?
Small town where Lee surrendered to Grant, thus ending the Civil War.
What is the Appomattox Courthouse?