American Civil War Flashcards
Who was appointed to command of the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia in 1862 after Joe Johnston was wounded and led it for the remainder of the war?
Robert E. Lee
Who earned the nickname ‘Stonewall’ at the First Battle of Bull Run?
Thomas Jackson
What was the capital of the Confederacy from 30 May 1861 to 3 April 1865?
Richmond
Who led his troops on a ‘March to the Sea’ in 1864?
William T Sherman
Where in Virginia did Grant accept the surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia on 9 April 1865?
Appomattox Court House
Who was President of the Confederacy throughout the American Civil War?
Jefferson Davis
What name has been given to the Confederate infantry assault on Union positions on Cemetery Ridge on 3 July 1863 the last day of the Battle of Gettysburg?
Pickett’s Charge
Which two ironclad battleships fought the Battle of Hampton Roads the first such naval battle?
monitor And merrimac
What did Lincoln issue on 22 September 1862 which declared the freedom of all slaves in any state of the Confederate States as did not return to Union control by 1 January 1863?
Emancipation Proclamation
A series of battles were fought around which city in Virginia from 9 June 1864 to 25 March 1865? It is usually described as a siege.
Petersburg
How many states seceded from the Union to form the Confederacy?
Eleven
The Confederate garrison of which city on the Mississippi surrendered on 4 July 1863?
Vicksburg
Who was appointed to command of the Union forces after the defeat at the First Battle of Bull Run?
George Mcclellan
What play was Lincoln watching when he was assassinated in April 1865?
Our American Cousin
In December 1860 what was the first state to secede from the Union?
South Carolina
Which Confederate commander was killed at the Battle of Shiloh?
Albert Sidney Johnston
Which battle fought in May 1864 was the first battle of Ulysses S. Grant’s 1864 Virginia Overland Campaign?
Battle Of The Wilderness
Who commanded the Army of the Potomac at the Battle of Gettysburg?
Gordon Meade
Union forces captured which port on 21 December 1864?
Savannah
Who was the commander of the defence of Fort Sumter?
Robert Anderson
H. L. Hunley was the first submarine to sink a warship by torpedoing which Union ship in 1864?
Uss Housatonic
The Confederate victory at which 1863 battle is known as Lee’s ‘perfect battle’ because of his risky decision to divide his army in the presence of a much larger enemy force?
Chancellorsville
What is the alternative name for the Battle of Shiloh?
Pittsburg Landing
Who replaced Ambrose Burnside after the Battle of Fredericksburg?
Joseph Hooker
Fort Sumter is in the harbour of which city in South Carolina?
Charleston
In which state is Gettysburg?
Pennsylvania
Which part of the Siege of Petersburg involved exploding a large mine under the Confederate lines?
Battle Of The Crater
The Battle of Seven Pines and the Seven Days Battles were part of which 1862 campaign?
Peninsula Campaign
Which woman was hanged in the Old Arsenal Penitentiary on 7 July 1865 for her part in the conspiracy to assassinate Lincoln?
Mary Surratt
Who was in command of the Union Army of Virginia at the Second Battle of Bull Run in 1862?
John Pope
The battle for which fort on 12 April 1864 ended with a massacre of Federal troops most of them of African origin who were attempting to surrender?
Fort Pillow
Who gained the nickname ‘The Rock of Chickamauga’ after his stout defence at that battle?
George Thomas
What battle fought on 19 October 1864 was the culminating battle of the Valley Campaigns?
Cedar Creek
Who commanded the Confederate forces defeated at the Battle of Atlanta?
John B Hood
During the Battle of Fredericksburg the Union army made futile frontal assaults against entrenched Confederate defenders on which position behind the city?
Marye’s Heights
The author of Ben Hur who was a Union commander at the battle of Shiloh?
Lew Wallace
Which Union Army General was killed at the Battle of Spotsylvania Court House in May 1864 while telling his troops that the enemy ‘couldn’t hit an elephant at this distance’?
John Sedgwick
Who commanded the Confederate Army of Tennessee at the siege of Chattanooga?
Braxton Bragg
Which lieutenant general in the Confederate Army served as the first Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan after the war?
Nathan Bedford Forrest
Before the Battle of Antietam a copy of the Confederate’s orders was found by Union troops wrapped around what objects?
Cigars
What was Ulysses S Grant’s birth name?
Hiram Ulysses Grant
Fought on 1 April 1865 which battle is sometimes referred to as the “Waterloo of the Confederacy”?
Five Forks
Who was the Secretary of State who was wounded by Lewis Powell during the evening of Lincoln’s assassination?
William H. Seward
Which noted Virginian secessionist claimed that he fired the first shot on Fort Sumter?
Edmund Ruffin
Chickamauga is a Cherokee word meaning what?
River Of Death
Whose two hour long oration preceded Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address?
Edward Everett
What name was given to the supply line opened to feed the starving men and animals of the Union Army in Chattanooga?
Cracker Line
Which superintendent of the prison camp in Andersonville Georgia was hanged in November 1865 becoming the only American Civil War soldier to be executed for war crimes?
Henry Wirz
Which Confederate commerce raider fired the last shot of the American Civil War before surrendering in Liverpool?
Css Shenandoah
What was the capital of the Confederacy from 4 April 1865 to 10 April 1865?
Danville
