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Civil Questions
The Ones That Matter
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Snodgrass Hill | Chickamauga |
| Union retreated to Lafayette Road | Chickamauga |
| George Henry Thomas was ‘Rock of’ this place | Chickamauga |
| Bragg beats Rosencrans | Chickamauga |
| Followed battles at Champion Hill and Port Gibson and Big Black River Bridge | Vicksburg |
| Battle of Milliken’s Bend was near it | Vicksburg |
| Pemberton surrendered it on July 4 | Vicksburg |
| Grant sieges it for 47 days, fell a few days before Port Hudson | Vicksburg |
| Followed battle at Brandy Station | Gettysburg |
| Heth began it by attacking Buford(Union) at McPherson’s Ridge | Gettysburg |
| Peach Orchard, Devil’s Den, Little Round Top | Gettysburg |
| Longstreet ordered Pickett’s Charge on 3rd day | Gettysburg |
| Meade replaces Hooker, defeats Lee | Gettysburg |
| Union had failed ‘Mud March’ after it | Fredericksburg |
| Richard Kirkland gave water to Union, became known as ‘Angel of’ this place | Fredericksburg |
| Union was delayed building pontoon bridges across Rappahannock | Fredericksburg |
| Longstreet held Marye’s Heights for Confederates | Fredericksburg |
| Lee beats Burnside on December 13 1862 | Fredericksburg |
| Burnside crossed Rohrbach Bridge, pushed back by A.P. Hill arriving from Harpers Ferry | Antietam |
| Dunker Church, the ‘Bloody Lane’, Miller’s Cornfield, West Woods | Antietam |
| Union found Lee’s Special Order 191 wrapped around cigar before it | Antietam |
| McClellan ‘strategic victory’, Lincoln gives Emancipation Proclamation | Antietam |
| Fitz John Porter was court-martialed for disobedience here | Second Manassas |
| Brawner Farm | Second Manassas |
| John Pope sent to Minnesota to fight in Dakota War after loss | Second Manassas |
| Pope (Union) gets trounced by Lee+Jackson | Second Manassas |
| Union: Lew Wallace came late after leading troops in wrong direction, Don Carlos Buell reinforced on second day | Shiloh |
| Union almost driven into Owl Creek | Shiloh |
| Benjamin Prentiss defended Hornet’s Nest | Shiloh |
| Albert Sidney Johnston was killed | Shiloh |
| Grant beats AS Johnston and PGT Beauregard | Shiloh |
| USS Monitor commanded by John Worden | Hampton Roads |
| Confederates defended Henry House Hill | First Bull Run |
| Bernard Bee coined “Stonewall” Jackson | First Bull Run |
| Irvin McDowell led Union, would be replaced by McClellan afterward | First Bull Run |
| Beauregard +J.E. Johnston led Confederacy | First Bull Run |