Civil War Battles

Question 1

Battle of bull run

Answer 1

• stonewall Jackson, McDowell,
• McDowell led troops into northern Virginia
• bull run creek, Manassas, Virginia
• July 1861
• south won

Question 2

Monitor vs Merrimack

Answer 2

• northern monitor, southern Merrimack
• 2 ironclads bounced shells
• Hampton roads, Virginia
• March 1862
• draw

Question 3

Antietam

Answer 3

• McClellan, lee,
• lee invaded Union territory
• Antietam, Maryland
• September 1862
• draw, but north claimed victory
• bloodiest battle

Question 4

Fredericksburg

Answer 4

• burnside, Lee
• Lee thrashed burnsides troops
• Fredericksburg, Virginia
• December 1862
• south won

Question 5

Fort sumner

Answer 5

• Robert Anderson, Lincoln, Jefferson Davis.
• started civil war
• in the harbor at charleston, South Carolina
• April 1861
• the fort was on the border of north and south

Question 6

Chancellorsville

Answer 6

• hooker, Lee, stonewall Jackson
• stonewall Jackson was shot by friendly fire
• Lee defeated hooker
• Chancellorsville, Virginia
• may 1863
• south won

Question 7

Gettysburg

Answer 7

• USA: Meade, chamberlain ( led 20th Maine ), sickles, Hancock, Scott, CSA: Lee, Longstreet, Oates, Pickett,
• little round top, big round top, pockets charge, confederate army charged into Pennsylvania and where drive back by strong defensive positions
• Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
• July 1863
• ## turning point of civil war

Question 8

Vicksburg

Answer 8

• grant, pemberton
• grant surrounded the city preventing any communication, supples, etc, then the city later surrendered
• Vicksburg, on the Mississippi River
• July 1863
• important: Union now controlled all of the Mississippi River,

Question 9

Fort Wagner

Answer 9

• colonel Robert shaw
• 54th Massachusetts
• fort Wagner, South Carolina
• 1863

Question 10

Appomattox court house

Answer 10

• grant, Lee
• Lee surrenders troops to grant
• farmhouse at Appomattox court house
• April 1865
• civil war ends with north bearing south