American Civil War

Question 1

Who was appointed to command of the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia in 1862 after Joe Johnston was wounded and led it for the remainder of the war?

Answer 1

Robert E. Lee

Question 2

Who earned the nickname ‘Stonewall’ at the First Battle of Bull Run?

Answer 2

Thomas Jackson

Question 3

What was the capital of the Confederacy from 30 May 1861 to 3 April 1865?

Answer 3

Richmond

Question 4

Who led his troops on a ‘March to the Sea’ in 1864?

Answer 4

William T Sherman

Question 5

Where in Virginia did Grant accept the surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia on 9 April 1865?

Answer 5

Appomattox Court House

Question 6

Who was President of the Confederacy throughout the American Civil War?

Answer 6

Jefferson Davis

Question 7

What name has been given to the Confederate infantry assault on Union positions on Cemetery Ridge on 3 July 1863 the last day of the Battle of Gettysburg?

Answer 7

Pickett’s Charge

Question 8

Which two ironclad battleships fought the Battle of Hampton Roads the first such naval battle?

Answer 8

monitor And merrimac

Question 9

What did Lincoln issue on 22 September 1862 which declared the freedom of all slaves in any state of the Confederate States as did not return to Union control by 1 January 1863?

Answer 9

Emancipation Proclamation

Question 10

A series of battles were fought around which city in Virginia from 9 June 1864 to 25 March 1865? It is usually described as a siege.

Answer 10

Petersburg

Question 11

How many states seceded from the Union to form the Confederacy?

Answer 11

Eleven

Question 12

The Confederate garrison of which city on the Mississippi surrendered on 4 July 1863?

Answer 12

Vicksburg

Question 13

Who was appointed to command of the Union forces after the defeat at the First Battle of Bull Run?

Answer 13

George Mcclellan

Question 14

What play was Lincoln watching when he was assassinated in April 1865?

Answer 14

Our American Cousin

Question 15

In December 1860 what was the first state to secede from the Union?

Answer 15

South Carolina

Question 16

Which Confederate commander was killed at the Battle of Shiloh?

Answer 16

Albert Sidney Johnston

Question 17

Which battle fought in May 1864 was the first battle of Ulysses S. Grant’s 1864 Virginia Overland Campaign?

Answer 17

Battle Of The Wilderness

Question 18

Who commanded the Army of the Potomac at the Battle of Gettysburg?

Answer 18

Gordon Meade

Question 19

Union forces captured which port on 21 December 1864?

Answer 19

Savannah

Question 20

Who was the commander of the defence of Fort Sumter?

Answer 20

Robert Anderson

Question 21

H. L. Hunley was the first submarine to sink a warship by torpedoing which Union ship in 1864?

Answer 21

Uss Housatonic

Question 22

The Confederate victory at which 1863 battle is known as Lee’s ‘perfect battle’ because of his risky decision to divide his army in the presence of a much larger enemy force?

Answer 22

Chancellorsville

Question 23

What is the alternative name for the Battle of Shiloh?

Answer 23

Pittsburg Landing

Question 24

Who replaced Ambrose Burnside after the Battle of Fredericksburg?

Answer 24

Joseph Hooker

Question 25

Fort Sumter is in the harbour of which city in South Carolina?

Answer 25

Charleston

Question 26

In which state is Gettysburg?

Answer 26

Pennsylvania

Question 27

Which part of the Siege of Petersburg involved exploding a large mine under the Confederate lines?

Answer 27

Battle Of The Crater

Question 28

The Battle of Seven Pines and the Seven Days Battles were part of which 1862 campaign?

Answer 28

Peninsula Campaign

Question 29

Which woman was hanged in the Old Arsenal Penitentiary on 7 July 1865 for her part in the conspiracy to assassinate Lincoln?

Answer 29

Mary Surratt

Question 30

Who was in command of the Union Army of Virginia at the Second Battle of Bull Run in 1862?

Answer 30

John Pope

Question 31

The battle for which fort on 12 April 1864 ended with a massacre of Federal troops most of them of African origin who were attempting to surrender?

Answer 31

Fort Pillow

Question 32

Who gained the nickname 'The Rock of Chickamauga' after his stout defence at that battle?

Answer 32

George Thomas

Question 33

What battle fought on 19 October 1864 was the culminating battle of the Valley Campaigns?

Answer 33

Cedar Creek

Question 34

Who commanded the Confederate forces defeated at the Battle of Atlanta?

Answer 34

John B Hood

Question 35

During the Battle of Fredericksburg the Union army made futile frontal assaults against entrenched Confederate defenders on which position behind the city?

Answer 35

Marye's Heights

Question 36

The author of Ben Hur who was a Union commander at the battle of Shiloh?

Answer 36

Lew Wallace

Question 37

Which Union Army General was killed at the Battle of Spotsylvania Court House in May 1864 while telling his troops that the enemy 'couldn't hit an elephant at this distance'?

Answer 37

John Sedgwick

Question 38

Who commanded the Confederate Army of Tennessee at the siege of Chattanooga?

Answer 38

Braxton Bragg

Question 39

Which lieutenant general in the Confederate Army served as the first Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan after the war?

Answer 39

Nathan Bedford Forrest

Question 40

Before the Battle of Antietam a copy of the Confederate's orders was found by Union troops wrapped around what objects?

Answer 40

Cigars

Question 41

What was Ulysses S Grant's birth name?

Answer 41

Hiram Ulysses Grant

Question 42

Fought on 1 April 1865 which battle is sometimes referred to as the "Waterloo of the Confederacy"?

Answer 42

Five Forks

Question 43

Who was the Secretary of State who was wounded by Lewis Powell during the evening of Lincoln's assassination?

Answer 43

William H. Seward

Question 44

Which noted Virginian secessionist claimed that he fired the first shot on Fort Sumter?

Answer 44

Edmund Ruffin

Question 45

Chickamauga is a Cherokee word meaning what?

Answer 45

River Of Death

Question 46

Whose two hour long oration preceded Lincoln's Gettysburg Address?

Answer 46

Edward Everett

Question 47

What name was given to the supply line opened to feed the starving men and animals of the Union Army in Chattanooga?

Answer 47

Cracker Line

Question 48

Which superintendent of the prison camp in Andersonville Georgia was hanged in November 1865 becoming the only American Civil War soldier to be executed for war crimes?

Answer 48

Henry Wirz

Question 49

Which Confederate commerce raider fired the last shot of the American Civil War before surrendering in Liverpool?

Answer 49

Css Shenandoah

Question 50

What was the capital of the Confederacy from 4 April 1865 to 10 April 1865?

Answer 50

Danville