Civil War Important People

Question 1

Head Commander of the Confederate Army

Answer 1

Robert E. Lee

Question 2

Confederate General who won many important battles

Answer 2

Stonewall Jackson

Question 3

Confederate military tactician

Answer 3

Nathan Bedford Forrest

Question 4

Confederate Commander of Northern Virginia

Answer 4

James Longstreet

Question 5

Cavalry Commander of Northern Virginia

Answer 5

J.E.B. Stuart

Question 6

Confederate commander who led an unsuccessful charge at the Battle of Gettysburg

Answer 6

General Pickett

Question 7

General who defended the Confederacy during Sherman’s March to the Sea

Answer 7

Joseph Johnston

Question 8

Surrendered the largest army in the war during Sherman’s March to the Sea

Answer 8

P.G.T Beauregard

Question 9

Confederate officer who was the highest in power to be killed during the war.

Answer 9

Albert Sidney Johnston

Question 10

General who became Head Commander of the Union Army of his victories in Tennessee and Mississippi

Answer 10

Ulysses S. Grant

Question 11

Commander of the Union Army until his defeat at Antitetam

Answer 11

George B. McClellan

Question 12

led a march across Southern territory which devastated the Confederacy

Answer 12

William Tecumseh Sherman

Question 13

Union commander during the Battle of Gettysburg

Answer 13

Winfield Scott Hancock

Question 14

led the Union Navy to victory in New Orleans

Answer 14

David Farragut

Question 15

veteran of the Mexican-American War who concocted the Union’s anaconda plan

Answer 15

Winfield Scott

Question 16

successful Union leader who, after the war, led assaults on Native American tribes

Answer 16

George Custer

Question 17

led Union victories in North Carolina and Tennessee but suffered a great loss at Fredericksburg

Answer 17

Ambrose Burnside

Question 18

led the Union to victory at the Battle of Gettysburg

Answer 18

George Meade

Question 19

was sent West after a disastrous Union defeat at the 2nd Battle of Bull Run

Answer 19

John Pope