Civil War Test - - Part 2

Question 1

What is the name of the commander of Union force, who in 1864 planned “total war” on all points of the confederacy?

Answer 1

General U. S. Grant

Question 2

What is the name of the city where the only major Civil War battle fought in Kentucky?

Answer 2

Perryville

Question 3

When Virginia seceded from the Union, this man turned down Lincoln’s offer to command Union forces and instead went to the south?

Answer 3

Robert E Lee

Question 4

What is the name of the fort that is located in Charleston Bay South Carolina - where the first shots of the Civil War occurred?

Answer 4

Fort Sumter

Question 5

Who was the President of the Confederacy?

Answer 5

Jefferson Davis

Question 6

Who was the President of the Union?

Answer 6

Abraham Lincoln

Question 7

To preserve the union AND to end slavery was the aims of which side the union or confederate?

Answer 7

Union / North

Question 8

What was the name of the battle that was turning point of the war?

Answer 8

Gettysburg

Question 9

What is the name of the campaign where union forces marched toward the confederate capital, sailing down the Chesapeake and landing on the strip of land between York and James River?

Answer 9

The Peninsula campaign

Question 10

What is the name of the confederate general who received a fomous nickname after the Battle of Bull Run?

Answer 10

General Thomas Jackson

Question 11

What is the name of General Sherman’s destructive path from Atlanta to Savannah?

Answer 11

March to the sea

Question 12

What is the name of the statement issued at the Battle of Antietam where the President freed all slaves in the states still fighting as of January 1 1863?

Answer 12

Emancipation Proclamation

Question 13

What is the name of the city that is located on the Mississippi River that when if fell to Union forces, it split the south in half?

Answer 13

Vicksburg, Mississippi

Question 14

What is the name of the capital of the Confederacy?

Answer 14

Richmond Virginia

Question 15

What is the name of the general who trained the Army of the Potomac, won a questionable victory at Antietam and was fired twice by Lincoln?

Answer 15

General George B. McClellan

Question 16

What is the name of the single day bloodiest battle of the war?

Answer 16

Antietam

Question 17

What is the name of the town where Lee surrendered to Grant ending the Civil War?

Answer 17

Appomattox, Virginia

Question 18

What is the name of the famous speech given by Lincoln dedicating a military cemetery in Pennsylvania?

Answer 18

Gettysburg Address

Question 19

What is the name of the man who shot and killed Abraham Lincoln?

Answer 19

John Wilkes Booth

Question 20

What is the name of a southern victory that was named after a creek in Northern Georgia where General George H. Thomas saved the Union army from complete destruction?

Answer 20

Chichamauga

Question 20

What is the law (amendment) that permanently freed all the slaves in the United States and in its territories?

Answer 20

13th Amendment

Question 21

What is the battle that was named as a reference to the Union forces digging a long tunnel under the Confederate lines and exploding it - causing significant fighting?

Answer 21

Battle of the Crater

Question 22

What is the name of the battle that was fought in thick forest with very dry underbrush - - many of those that were killed perished due to the fire started by artillery shells?

Answer 22

Battle of the Wilderness

Question 23

What is the Capital of the Union forces?

Answer 23

Washington DC

Question 24

Who won the Civil War?

Answer 24

The Union