People
President of the Confederacy.
Who was Jefferson Davis?
Capital of the Confederacy.
What is Richmond?
Site of the first battle of the Civil War.
What is Ft. Sumter?
Another name for the North.
What is "the Union"?
Soldiers often found these in their coffee.
What are bugs/weevils?
President of the Union/United States.
Who was Abraham Lincoln?
State in which the Battle of Gettysburg took place.
What is Pennsylvania?
Battle between the USS Monitor and CSS Virginia.
What is the "clash of the ironclads"?
Another name for the South.
What is "the Confederacy"?
Surgeons almost never did this before operating.
What is "wash their hands"?
The Union's #1 general.
Who was Ulysses S. Grant?
Vicksburg is located very close to this major river.
What is the Mississippi?
Battle which led to Lincoln issuing the Emancipation Proclamation.
What is Antietam?
Nickname for Southern Soldiers.
What is "Johnny Reb"?
Soldiers had to eat these "iron crackers."
What is hardtack?
The Confederacy's top general.
Who was Robert E. Lee?
Capital of the Union.
What is Washington, D.C.?
The Emancipation Proclamation freed slaves in this area.
What were states in rebellion/Confederate states?
Nickname for Northern Soldiers.
What is "Billy Yank"?
Don't tell Ms. Oldenburg, but soldiers and civilians alike would eat these if they had to.
What are rats?
Who was Harriet Beecher Stowe?
River which General Lee crossed, and which gave its name to part of the Union Army.
What is the Potomac?
Two Battles which the Union won on July 4th, 1863.
What are Gettysburg and Vicksburg?
Organization founded by Clara Barton.
What is the Red Cross?
Despite what some of your classmates thought, as far as we know, no one resorted to eating these.
What are people?