Civil War (US)

Question 1

Lawrence KS raiders from Missouri - 1863

Answer 1

Quantrill’s Raiders (including Jesse James)

Question 2

C.S.A. general; victor at Shenandoah Valley

Answer 2

Stonewall Jackson

Question 3

Rebuilding the South after the US Civil War

Answer 3

Reconstruction

Question 4

Gettysburg ridge Pickett charged up

Answer 4

Cemetary Ridge

Question 5

Number of states in the union

Answer 5

twenty-three

Question 6

Union general; “Little Phil”

Answer 6

Phillip Sheridan

Question 7

Slave involved in Supreme Court decision

Answer 7

Dred Scott

Question 8

Farm where Lee met Grant to sign the surrender

Answer 8

Wilmer McLean’s

Question 9

Tennessee battle site - April 1862

Answer 9

Shiloh (won by U.S. Grant)

Question 10

Woman hung for Lincoln’s death

Answer 10

Mary Surratt

Question 11

Northern opportunists in the South after Civil War

Answer 11

Carpetbaggers

Question 12

Confederate female spy

Answer 12

Belle Boyd

Question 13

Lincoln was shot while watching this play

Answer 13

Our American Cousin

Question 14

Battle where Stonewall Jackson was killed - May 1863

Answer 14

Chancellorsville - TN

Question 15

Gettysburg ridge defended by Union Armies

Answer 15

Seminary Ridge

Question 16

Term for southern sympathizers in the North

Answer 16

Copperhead

Question 17

Doctor who set Booth’s broken leg

Answer 17

Samuel Mudd

Question 18

C.S.A. general; “Old Jube”

Answer 18

Jubilee Anderson Early

Question 19

Man who shot Lincoln

Answer 19

John Wilkes Booth

Question 20

First major battle of the US Civil War - July 1861

Answer 20

First Manassas (Bull Run) Virginia

Question 21

20th century US Civil War historian

Answer 21

Bruce Catton

Question 22

Female Civil War surgeon who received Congressional Medal of Honor

Answer 22

Mary Walker

Question 23

Site of first Civil War battle in April 1861

Answer 23

Fort Sumter

Question 24

The “Cradle of the Confederacy”

Answer 24

Montgomery AL

Question 25

Union general; “Uncle Billy”

Answer 25

William Tecumseh Sherman

Question 26

Civil War detective agency

Answer 26

Pinkerton’s

Question 27

Confederate commander at Gettysburg

Answer 27

Robert E. Lee

Question 28

Merrimack’s other name

Answer 28

Virginia

Question 29

First state to rejoin the union

Answer 29

Tennessee

Question 30

Superintendent of Union Army nurses

Answer 30

Dorothea Dix

Question 31

Confederate ironclad

Answer 31

Merrimack

Question 32

“Road to Richmond” battle - Feb-June 1862

Answer 32

Shenandoah Valley Campaign

Question 33

Bloodiest battle in American history - Sept 1862

Answer 33

Antietam MD

Question 34

Last state to secede from the unioin

Answer 34

Virginia

Question 35

Union army chief relieved in 1862

Answer 35

George McClellan

Question 36

Lincoln’s first choice to head union army

Answer 36

Robert E. Lee

Question 37

Union general with “mutton chop” sideburns

Answer 37

Ambrose Burnside

Question 38

Number of states in the confederacy

Answer 38

Eleven

Question 39

Confederate train hijacked by the North

Answer 39

The General

Question 40

Confederate capital after Montgomery

Answer 40

Richmond VA

Question 41

Place where Lee surrended - April 1865

Answer 41

Appomattox (Court House)

Question 42

Mississippi River battle site - March-July 1863

Answer 42

Vicksburg MS

Question 43

Man who led raid on Harper’s Ferry - 1859

Answer 43

John Brown

Question 44

Ill-fated C.S.A. submarine

Answer 44

Hunley

Question 45

Union admiral who captured Mobile Bay - 1864

Answer 45

David Farragut

Question 46

Civil War photographer

Answer 46

Matthew Brady

Question 47

Confederate inaugral song

Answer 47

Dixie

Question 48

Union general that had been Rhode Island governor

Answer 48

Ambrose Burnside

Question 49

Pinkerton’s Detective agency motto

Answer 49

“We never sleep”

Question 50

Union commander at Gettysburg

Answer 50

George Meade

Question 51

Battle where Stonewall Jackson lost an arm

Answer 51

Fredericksburg

Question 52

Union general who resigned ahead of the Union Army - 1861

Answer 52

Winfield Scott

Question 53

Pennsylvannia battle site - July 1863

Answer 53

Gettysburg

Question 54

Union general; “Fighting Joe”

Answer 54

Joseph Hooker

Question 55

President of Confederate States of America

Answer 55

Jefferson Davis

Question 56

“The Breadbasket of the Confederacy”

Answer 56

Shanandoah Valley

Question 57

First capital of the confederacy

Answer 57

Montgomery AL

Question 58

States along the Mason-Dixon line

Answer 58

Border States

Question 59

Infamous Confederate POW camp

Answer 59

Andersonville (in GA)

Question 60

C.S.A. general who captured Fort Sumter

Answer 60

P.G.T. Beauregard

Question 61

First state to secede from the union

Answer 61

South Carolina

Question 62

Group of Civil War veterans

Answer 62

Grand Army of the Republic

Question 63

Last state to rejoin the union

Answer 63

Georgia

Question 64

Vice president of C.S.A.

Answer 64

Alexander Stephens

Question 65

Union general who captured Atlanta

Answer 65

William T. Sherman

Question 66

Underground railroad conductor; “Moses” of her people

Answer 66

Harriet Tubman

Question 67

Gettysburg “charge”

Answer 67

Pickett’s Charge

Question 68

Union general who was Buchanan’s VP

Answer 68

John C. Breckenridge

Question 69

Theater where Lincoln was shot

Answer 69

Ford’s Theater

Question 70

Virginia battle site - Aug 1862

Answer 70

Second Manassas (Bull Run) won by Jackson’s army

Question 71

Female “Spy of the Cumberland”

Answer 71

Pauline Cushman

Question 72

Union ironclad

Answer 72

Monitor

Question 73

Civil War “Angel of the Battlefield”

Answer 73

Clara Barton

Question 74

Only person executed for war crimes after US Civil War

Answer 74

Henry Wirz - Andersonville POW commandant