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Civil War Battles
You Gotta Know These Civil War Battles and Campaigns
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| The first engagement of the Civil War, where a Confederate force under P.G.T. Beauregard forced the Union garrison under Major Robert Anderson to surrender | Fort Sumter |
| The first major showdown of the war near Manassas, VA, where Thomas Jackson earned the nickname "Stonewall" | First Bull Run (First Manassas) |
| The first major fight between two ironclad ships (the Merrimack/Virginia and the Monitor) that maintained the Union's naval blockade | Hampton Roads |
| The battle named after a church in Tennessee where Ulysses S. Grant's troops held the "Hornets' Nest" and Confederate General Albert Sidney Johnston was killed | Shiloh (Pittsburg Landing) |
| The Union campaign devised by George McClellan to capture Richmond that failed after the Seven Days' Battles and the rise of Robert E. Lee | Peninsular Campaign |
| The resounding Confederate victory where Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson pushed Union forces back to Washington D.C., ceding Virginia to the Confederacy | Second Bull Run (Second Manassas) |
| The bloodiest single day of the Civil War where a Union soldier discovered Lee's battle plans wrapped around cigars, leading to a strategic Union victory that allowed Lincoln to issue the Emancipation Proclamation | Antietam (Sharpsburg) |
| The battle where Union commander Ambrose Burnside took heavy losses assaulting Confederate positions on Marye's Heights | Fredericksburg |
| The campaign launched by Ulysses S. Grant to take control of the Mississippi River by laying siege to a key Confederate town | Vicksburg Campaign |
| The Confederate general who surrendered his men at Vicksburg due to starvation | John Pemberton |
| A Southern victory with great cost where Stonewall Jackson lost his life after being shot by his own men | Chancellorsville |
| The battle that marked both the farthest northward advance by the Confederacy and the turning point of the war | Gettysburg |
| The Union commander who replaced Joseph Hooker just before Gettysburg | George Meade |
| The Confederate charge on the third day of Gettysburg through open fields that resulted in one-third casualties for the 15,000 men involved | George Pickett's charge |
| The campaign that began when Union General Rosecrans forced Braxton Bragg out of a city in September 1863 | Chattanooga Campaign |
| The battle where Braxton Bragg and James Longstreet forced Rosecrans into a siege position at Chattanooga | Chickamauga |
| The general nicknamed the “Rock of Chickamauga” for saving the Union army from annihilation | George Thomas |
| The battle during the Chattanooga Campaign where Hooker took Lookout Mountain | Battle Above the Clouds |
| The first clash between Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee, fought in a dense forest northwest of Richmond | Wilderness Campaign (Overland Campaign) |
| The battle where Grant advanced within ten miles of Richmond but lost 7,000 men to Lee’s 1,500 | Cold Harbor |
| The lengthy siege of a railroad hub 25 miles from Richmond, featuring trench warfare similar to WWI | Petersburg Campaign |
| The battle during the Petersburg Campaign where Pennsylvania coal miners detonated four tons of powder in a tunnel underneath the Confederate line | Battle of the Crater |
| The battle where Grant finally destroyed the Confederate right flank, leading to Lee's surrender a week later | Battle of Five Forks |
| The location where Robert E. Lee surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant, effectively ending the Civil War | Appomattox Court House |
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