Civil War (US)

Question 1

Slave involved in Supreme Court decision

Answer 1

Dred Scott

Question 2

Union general who captured Atlanta

Answer 2

William T. Sherman

Question 3

Superintendent of Union Army nurses

Answer 3

Dorothea Dix

Question 4

Female Civil War surgeon who received Congressional Medal of Honor

Answer 4

Mary Walker

Question 5

Civil War “Angel of the Battlefield”

Answer 5

Clara Barton

Question 6

Female “Spy of the Cumberland”

Answer 6

Pauline Cushman

Question 7

Confederate female spy

Answer 7

Belle Boyd

Question 8

Union ironclad

Answer 8

Monitor

Question 9

Man who led raid on Harper’s Ferry - 1859

Answer 9

John Brown

Question 10

Union army chief relieved in 1862

Answer 10

George McClellan

Question 11

Civil War detective agency

Answer 11

Pinkerton’s

Question 12

Pinkerton’s Detective agency motto

Answer 12

“We never sleep”

Question 13

States along the Mason-Dixon line

Answer 13

Border States

Question 14

First state to secede from the union

Answer 14

South Carolina

Question 15

Last state to secede from the unioin

Answer 15

Virginia

Question 16

First state to rejoin the union

Answer 16

Tennessee

Question 17

First capital of the confederacy

Answer 17

Montgomery AL

Question 18

Underground railroad conductor; “Moses” of her people

Answer 18

Harriet Tubman

Question 19

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

Answer 19

Stonewall Jackson

Question 20

The “Cradle of the Confederacy”

Answer 20

Montgomery AL

Question 21

Confederate capital after Montgomery

Answer 21

Richmond VA

Question 22

President of Confederate States of America

Answer 22

Jefferson Davis

Question 23

Vice president of C.S.A.

Answer 23

Alexander Stephens

Question 24

Number of states in the confederacy

Answer 24

Eleven

Question 25

Number of states in the union

Answer 25

twenty-three

Question 26

Lincoln's first choice to head union army

Answer 26

Robert E. Lee

Question 27

Union admiral who captured Mobile Bay - 1864

Answer 27

David Farragut

Question 28

C.S.A. general who captured Fort Sumter

Answer 28

P.G.T. Beauregard

Question 29

Union general who was Buchanan's VP

Answer 29

John C. Breckenridge

Question 30

Union general; "Fighting Joe"

Answer 30

Joseph Hooker

Question 31

Union general; "Uncle Billy"

Answer 31

William Tecumseh Sherman

Question 32

Union general; "Little Phil"

Answer 32

Phillip Sheridan

Question 33

Union general with "mutton chop" sideburns

Answer 33

Ambrose Burnside

Question 34

Union general that had been Rhode Island governor

Answer 34

Ambrose Burnside

Question 35

Union general who resigned ahead of the Union Army - 1861

Answer 35

Winfield Scott

Question 36

Confederate ironclad

Answer 36

Merrimack

Question 37

C.S.A. general; "Old Jube"

Answer 37

Jubilee Anderson Early

Question 38

Man who shot Lincoln

Answer 38

John Wilkes Booth

Question 39

Gettysburg "charge"

Answer 39

Pickett's Charge

Question 40

Gettysburg ridge Pickett charged up

Answer 40

Cemetary Ridge

Question 41

Place where Lee surrended - April 1865

Answer 41

Appomattox (Court House)

Question 42

Farm where Lee met Grant to sign the surrender

Answer 42

Wilmer McLean's

Question 43

Rebuilding the South after the US Civil War

Answer 43

Reconstruction

Question 44

Confederate inaugral song

Answer 44

_Dixie_

Question 45

Last state to rejoin the union

Answer 45

Georgia

Question 46

Lincoln was shot while watching this play

Answer 46

_Our American Cousin_

Question 47

Union commander at Gettysburg

Answer 47

George Meade

Question 48

Doctor who set Booth's broken leg

Answer 48

Samuel Mudd

Question 49

Woman hung for Lincoln's death

Answer 49

Mary Surratt

Question 50

Only person executed for war crimes after US Civil War

Answer 50

Henry Wirz - Andersonville POW commandant

Question 51

Term for southern sympathizers in the North

Answer 51

Copperhead

Question 52

Northern opportunists in the South after Civil War

Answer 52

Carpetbaggers

Question 53

Civil War photographer

Answer 53

Matthew Brady

Question 54

20th century US Civil War historian

Answer 54

Bruce Catton

Question 55

Theater where Lincoln was shot

Answer 55

Ford's Theater

Question 56

Virginia battle site - Aug 1862

Answer 56

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

Question 57

Merrimack's other name

Answer 57

Virginia

Question 58

Ill-fated C.S.A. submarine

Answer 58

Hunley

Question 59

"The Breadbasket of the Confederacy"

Answer 59

Shanandoah Valley

Question 60

Infamous Confederate POW camp

Answer 60

Andersonville (in GA)

Question 61

Confederate train hijacked by the North

Answer 61

The General

Question 62

Site of first Civil War battle in April 1861

Answer 62

Fort Sumter

Question 63

First major battle of the US Civil War - July 1861

Answer 63

First Manassas (Bull Run) Virginia

Question 64

Gettysburg ridge defended by Union Armies

Answer 64

Seminary Ridge

Question 65

"Road to Richmond" battle - Feb-June 1862

Answer 65

Shenandoah Valley Campaign

Question 66

Confederate commander at Gettysburg

Answer 66

Robert E. Lee

Question 67

Bloodiest battle in American history - Sept 1862

Answer 67

Antietam MD

Question 68

Lawrence KS raiders from Missouri - 1863

Answer 68

Quantrill's Raiders (including Jesse James)

Question 69

Battle where Stonewall Jackson lost an arm

Answer 69

Fredericksburg

Question 70

Battle where Stonewall Jackson was killed - May 1863

Answer 70

Chancellorsville - TN

Question 71

Mississippi River battle site - March-July 1863

Answer 71

Vicksburg MS

Question 72

Pennsylvannia battle site - July 1863

Answer 72

Gettysburg

Question 73

Group of Civil War veterans

Answer 73

Grand Army of the Republic

Question 74

Tennessee battle site - April 1862

Answer 74

Shiloh (won by U.S. Grant)