Personalities of the Civil War
He is widely regarded as the best general in the Confederate Army and served as the Confederacy's military leader for most of the war.
Who is Robert E Lee
They won the US Civil War.
What is the North, Union, USA....
The Civil War featured the first one of these to ever sink a ship?
What is a submarine? (the Hunley)
This was the first capital of the Confederacy?
What is Montgomery, AL?
The US Civil War took place during this decade.
What is the 1860's?
He was the President of the USA during the Civil War- in fact, his election directly led to the Civil War.
Who is Abraham Lincoln
This Battle in Maryland stopped a Confederate invasion of the North and was the single bloodiest day of the Civil War.
What is the Battle of Antietam?
The North had a great advantage in these that allowed them to move troops around faster over great distances.
What are railroads?
This is where the first shots of the Civil War were fired.
What is Fort Sumter?
This color is associated with the South because it is the color most worn by its soldiers.
What is gray?
He assassinated Abraham Lincoln
Who is John Wilkes Booth?
This Battle in the West was won by the Union forces under General Grant. It was actually a siege and the victory cut the Confederacy in two.
What is the Battle of Vicksburg?
This recent invention helped the speed of communication greatly in the US Civil War.
What is the telegraph?
Lincoln's famous address that began "Four score and seven years ago..." was given here.
What is Gettysburg, PA?
This was the leading cause of death in the US Civil War.
What is disease (sickness)?
He was the Union General responsible for cutting a path of destruction across Georgia to the sea.
Who is William Tecumsuh Sherman?
This battle in Pennsylvania is considered the turning point of the war. It lasted for three days and ended in a Confederated defeat and retreat. It was the bloodiest battle of the Civil War.
What is the Battle of Gettysburg?
These were used during the Civil War to observe the enemy's troop movements and the location of artillery.
What are hot air balloons?
The capture of this Southern city gave the Union control of the Mississippi and cut the Confederacy in two.
What is Vicksburg, MS?
This is the color most associated with Union soldiers.
What is blue?
He started the war as a relatively unknown officer, but eventually rose to command all Union forces and won the war for the North.
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
These were the first two ironclad warships to ever battle each other.
What was the Monitor and the Merrimack (or Virginia)
This new technology greatly increased the accuracy of rifled muskets and led to the huge number of casualties in Civil War battles.
What is the Minie' Ball?
This is where General Lee surrendered to General Grant.
What is Appomattox Court House, VA?
This was the name of the North's plan to strangle the South into submission.
The Anaconda Plan
He got his nickname at the Battle of Bull Run as his Confederate troops stood their ground and refused to break and run.
Who is Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson?
This was the first major battle of the Civil War which took place near Manassas, Va. It was a Confederate victory.
What is the Battle of Bull Run?
The number of soldiers, Union and Confederate, killed in the Civil War.
What is 600,000? (Anything from 600-720,000)
Sherman's "March to the Sea" began and ended in these two cities.
What is Slavery?
He was the first and only President of the Confederate States of America.
Who is Jefferson Davis?
Who is General Pickett (George- Pickett's Charge)
This person founded the American Red Cross.
Who is Clara Barton?
It was the capital of the Confederacy for most of the Civil War.
What is Richmond, VA?
This hard cracker made from wheat made up a large part of a Civil War soldier's diet.
What is hardtack?