This battle takes its name from the Antietam river located in this border state.
What is Maryland?
100
After McClellan was fired, he took command of the Army of the Potomac even though he told Lincoln he was not qualified to do so.
Who was Ambrose Burnside?
100
A.P. Hill wanted to take the town of Gettysburg to secure a large supply of these for his men.
What are shoes?
100
It was crucial for the Confederacy to hold this town on the Mississippi.
What is Vicksburg?
100
Abraham Lincoln's mother died of this disease.
What is milk sickness?
200
Poor punctuation in a press report gave this Union general his pugilistic nickname.
Who is "Fightin' Joe" Hooker?
200
A lack of these delayed Burnside's offensive against Fredericksburg for about three weeks.
What are pontoons or pontoon bridges?
200
General Robert E. Lee rejected this general's advice to disengage with the Union army in order to find their own "good ground."
Who is Gen. James Longstreet?
200
General Robert E. Lee surrendered here.
What is Appomattox Court House?
200
Lincoln once fought a duel with this weapon.
What is a broad sword?
300
Lee's battle plans were wrapped around these.
What are three cigars?
300
Following Fredericksburg, he was given command of the Army of the Potomic.
Who is Joe Hooker?
300
It took this many minutes to decimate Pickett's charge.
What is about 30 minutes?
300
Grant earned this nickname while leading the Union army to several bloody stalemates in Virginia.
What is "The Butcher"?
300
She was Abraham Lincoln's first true love.
Who is Anne Rutledge?
400
Burnside's men should have done this to cross the Antietam instead of wasting four hours securing a bridge.
What is just wade across the river?
400
Lincoln, somewhat coldly, suggested that it would have been better for the cannon to have struck Hooker instead of this at the battle of Chancellorsville.
What is the porch post Hooker was leaning against?
400
Colonel Lawrence Chamberlain was a professor of this subject before he saved the day for the Union on the second day of Gettysburg.
What is rhetoric?
400
Confederate soldiers slaughtered large numbers of African American soldiers who were trying to surrender during this catastrophic battle during the siege of St. Petersburg.
What is the battle of the Crater?
400
Lincoln once bested him in a wrestling match and later defended his son in a murder case.
Who is Jack Armstrong?
500
Robert E. Lee's last dying words.
What are "Hill must come up."
500
Regarding Fredericksburg, one war correspondent commented, "It can hardly be in human nature for men to show more valor or generals to manifest...this.
What is "less judgement."?
500
Today you can find this souvenir of the Battle of Gettysburg at the National Museum of Health and Medicine.
What are the leg bones of Gen. Daniel Sickles as well as the cannonball that caused his leg to be amputated?
500
Union soldiers referred to the residents of Vicksburg as this because of their resemblance to a burrowing animal.
What is "Prairie Dog People"?
500
His sponsorship of the Kansas-Nebraska Act which opened up Kansas to "popular sovereignty" allowed him to defeat Lincoln in one political contest, but lost him the race for president in 1860.