Civil War

The Battle of Gettysburg is known as the turning point of the entire war, what state was the battle fought?

Fort ____________ was built on the Savannah River to help defend the Georgia coast.

Coupled with the firing upon Fort Sumter and Mr. Lincoln's call for troops to invade those Southern states in rebellion the states of North Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia and _______________ also seceded from the Union to join the Confederate States of America.

Which of the following is NOT a Confederate general?

The lead Union general in the capture of Atlanta was _________________.

What would have been the main objective for the Union to capture the city of Atlanta during the Atlanta campaign?

Where was the official surrender of Lee's Confederate army to Grant's Union army take place?

Rejecting Abraham Lincoln's offer to command the Union army, _______________________ chose to lead his home state of Virginia and the Confederate Army.

The Union gained control of the Mississippi River when at the Siege of _____________________.

Which battle was known as the bloodiest single day of the war?

After the fall of Atlanta, Union troops cut a 40 mile swath from Atlanta to Savannah destroying everything in their path. This event becomes known as _________________________________.

Union general Winfield Scott developed the ___________ plan for defeating the Confederacy which involved squeezing the South from supplies, capturing railroad hubs and gaining control of waterways like the Mississippi River.

Which Confederate general retired to the sleepy resort town of Gainesville, Georgia after the war?

Serving in the new capitol of Richmond, Virginia, Jefferson ________ was elected to be the first president of the Confederacy.

The southern plan for victory was __________________________ which involved diplomacy with European countries to gain their support.

What 1864 campaign became a "cat & mouse" game between Grant and Lee where Grant lost 2 men for every one that Lee lost.

Who was the commander of the overcrowded Confederate prison in Southwest Georgia?

Who was Robert E. Lee referring when he said of a southern general who died after the Battle of Chancellorsville, "He may have lost his left arm, but I have lost my right."?

Abraham Lincoln issued the ______________________________ after the Battle of Antietam declaring all slaves free in states that were in rebellion IF those states did NOT stop fighting.

The governor of Georgia during what many distraught southerners called "Lincoln's War" was _____________________________.

The nicknames Johnny Reb and Billy Yank refer to ____________________.

___________________________ prison was a Confederate prison designed to hold only 10,000 soldiers. It became infamous for disease, starvation, and crime when it ballooned to an overcrowded 30,000 soldiers during the war.

When was the Civil War?

After the Election of 1860 Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, South Carolina and ______________ left the Union to form the Confederate States of America.

What battle did Confederate generals Braxton Bragg and James Longstreet defeated Union General Rosecrans in the SECOND bloodiest battle of the war near the border of Georgia and Tennessee?