Battles
The Henry home was destroyed in this battle, which many consider the first official battle of the Civil War.
What was the Battle of Bull Run?
This state was the first to secede from the Union.
What was South Carolina?
He was the President of the United States during the Civil War.
Who was Abraham Lincoln?
He was the President of the Confederacy.
Who was Jefferson Davis?
Soldiers often had to eat this for food, which was made from flour, water, and salt.
What is hardtack?
A national cemetery was established shortly after this battle in Pennsylvania, considered the bloodiest battle in American history.
What was the Battle of Gettysburg?
This was the capital of the Union.
What was Washington, D.C.?
He was the most successful Union general and later became one of our presidents.
Who was Ulysses S. Grant?
He was the leading general in the South.
Who was Robert E. Lee?
The Gettysburg Address, which was short enough for newspapers to publish in their papers around the US, was this many words in length.
What is 272?
Victory at the Battle of Vicksburg gave the Union control of this major area of the United States.
What is the Mississippi River?
This group of states (made up from Delaware, Kentucky, Maryland, and Missouri) allowed slavery but remained loyal to the Union.
What were the border states?
General Thomas Jackson earned this nickname after the Battle of Bull Run.
What is "Stonewall"?
After emancipation, black soldiers made up this percent of the Union's enlistment.
What is 10%?
While amputation was often used to keep wounded men alive, this was the common tool used to treat disease.
What was whiskey?
Confederate soldiers came up with this rallying cry at the Battle of Bull Run, which was used to intimidate the enemy when they charged a battlefield.
What is the "rebel yell"?
The Confederacy's capital was in this town from Virginia.
What was Richmond?
This man plotted Lincoln's murder and successfully put that plan into motion at Ford's Theatre.
Who was John Wilkes Booth?
This is the term used to describe General Sherman's approach to warfare, where soldiers destroy everything useful to the enemy as they travel.
What is total war?
Virginians who wanted to rejoin the Union after seceding split from the state to create this in 1863, numbered as the 35th state in the US.
What is West Virginia?
General Pickett led a charge across a half mile of open ground on this numbered day in the Battle of Gettysburg in which half of his 14,000 Confederate troops were slaughtered.
What is the third day?
General Sherman captured this city in Georgia at the beginning of the March to Sea campaign.
What is Atlanta?
This general used to serve under Lincoln before being fired for his reluctance to pursue fleeing Confederate armies. He would later run against Lincoln in the 1864 election.
Who was George B. McClellan?
This man was a free African American who often served as Lincoln's personal valet/assistant.
Who was William Henry Johnson?
This was the name given to the Union's overall strategy to win the Civil War.
What was the Anaconda Plan?
This type of ship covered in metal was first introduced in the Civil War from efforts to form a blockade on the South.
What is an ironclad?
General Lee surrendered to General Grant at a court house in this town located in Virginia.
What is Appomattox?
Lincoln's son, Willie, died at the age of 12 to this bacterial disease.
What is typhoid fever?
After serving in the Civil War tending to the wounded, Clara Barton would later establish this organization.
What is the American Red Cross?
Passed by Congress on January 31, 1865, and ratified on December 6, 1865, this amendment abolished slavery in the United States.
What is the 13th Amendment?