Land Battles
What is the most Northern battle in the Civil War?
Answer: The Battle of Gettysburg.
True or False: The Siege of Petersburg was a battle in the Civil War.
Answer: True.
What was the name of the first confederate ironclad ship?
Answer: CSS Virginia.
What was Stonewall Jacksons' real name?
Answer: Thomas Jackson
Who was the First commander of the Army of the Potomac?
Answer: John MacLellan.
What was the most deadly day in the Civil War?
Answer: The Battle of Anteitam
What was the first siege in the American Civil War?
Answer: The Battle of Fort Sumter.
What was the name of the first US ironclad?
Answer: USS Monitor.
Which theater did Robert E. Lee command in? West or East?
Answer: East.
Which commander was called "the Butcher?"
Answer: Major General Ulysses S. Grant.
What battle took place near a church, ironically called "Place of Peace" in Hebrew, on the march to Corinth?
Answer: The Battle of Shiloh.
How many people and cannons did John Pemberton surrender at Vicksburg?
Answer: 29,495 soldiers, 172 cannons.
True or False: New Orleans fell to the Union during the Civil War?
Answer: True.
Who was the Confederate Commander at the Battle of Vicksburg?
Answer: John C. Pemberton
Who was General Grants best friend in the Army of the Tennessee?
Brig. Gen. Sherman.
What city did Aabraham Lincoln call "The Key to winning the war," and was also called "America's Gibraltar?"
Answer: Vicksburg
Which siege was commanded by Major General William T. Sherman?
Answer: Siege of Atlanta.
What was the Battle of Cherbourg?
A battle between USS Kearsarge and CSS Alabama
Who said “Gentlemen, we shall attack at daylight?"
Answer: Albert Sidney Johnston.
Who was the commander of the Army of the Tennessee?
Answer: Ulysses Grant.
In what battle was there a place called "The Hornets' Nest?"
Answer: The Battle of Shiloh.
Which siege ended on July 4, 1863?
Answer: Siege of Vicksburg.
In what battle was Ironclads first used?
Answer: Battle of Hampton Roads
Who was the highest ranking commander to die in the Civil War?
Answer: Albert Johnston. He died from a shot in the leg which bled out.
Which commander came up with the "Anaconda plan?"
Answer: Gen. Winfield Scott.