Question | Answer |
What city on the Mississippi, did Lincoln consider to be the "key" to Union victory? | Vicksburg |
What Tennessee city guarded the gateway to the eastern Confederacy and the rebel war industry in Georgia? | Chattanooga |
Whose charge up Cemetary ridge was a big mistake? | General George Pickett |
Jefferson Davis wanted Lee to help relieve the siege of Vicksburg, but Lee had a bolder plan. Where did Lee decide to invade instead? | Pennsylvania |
Who won the battle of Gettysburg? | the North |
What Confederate city finally surrendered to Grant on July 4, 1863? | Vicksburg |
How many years went by before the city of Vicksburg celebrated the 4th of July? | 81 years |
What did the Battle of Gettysburg begin over? | shoes |
What army held the high ground at Gettysburg? | the North |
Who admitted that ordering the final attack at Cold Harbor was the only thing he ever did wrong? | Ulysses S. Grant |
Who was in charge of all nurses in the Union Army and worked for four years without pay? | Dorothea Dix |
Who did Robert E. Lee felt his first duty was to? | Virginia |
How long was the Gettysburg Address? | 269 words |
Why did poet Walt Whitman go to work in a Washington DC hospital? | his brother had been wounded |
What would have happened of both Grant and Sherman had remained stalled in the fall of 1864? | Lincoln would have lost the election |
What part of the Union strategy was Sherman in charge of? | the attack on Atlanta |
What happened to the wounded soldiers at the Wilderness? | they burned alive in a brush fire |
How much did it cost to hire a substitute to take your place in the war if you had been drafted? | $300 |
From the Wilderness to Cold Harbor, the fighting was non-stop for how many days? | 30 days |
Where were guns set up just outside of Chattanooga? | Lookout Mountain |