How well do you know the Civil War?

Who is this Confederate General?

Who replaced the conservative Joseph E. Johnston during the Atlanta campaign?
In 1864, with Grant and Meade attacking Robert E. Lee, Sherman attacking Atlanta, and Benjamin Butler advancing on Lee from the southeast, who was tasked with capturing Mobile, Alabama?
Which battle was not part of the Bristoe Campaign?
Which two were not a battle during Joe Hooker’s pursuit of Lee, where J.E.B Stuart’s cavalry masked the Confederate army’s movements behind the blue Ridge mountains?
Which battle was not part of the Bermuda Hundred Campaign?
In which Mississippi battle did Union Maj. Gen. William T. Sherman order a frontal assault, which was repulsed with heavy casualties?
What Maj. Gen. was wounded five times before Gettysburg, but ultimately mortally wounded on the second day of the Battle of Gettysburg, dying two weeks later?
Did the Union with the Battle of Chickamauga?
Who was the commander of the Union forces during the First Battle of Fredericksburg?
Who is this Confederate Lt. General?

Who was the first Union general to be killed in the war?
Who is this?

Which was not a battle of the Maryland campaign?
Who is this Confederate General with the nickname, “Little Napolean”?

Whose unconditional surrender did Grant accept at Fort Donelson?
In which battle was J.E.B Stuart killed?
In which battle did Robert E. Lee’s intricate plan go immediately awry when Stonewall Jackson’s forces failed to arrive on time?
In which battle  was Confederate cavalry general William “Grumble” Jones killed?
Who commanded the Army of Northeastern Virginia – the army that fought (and lost) the war’s first major battle at Bull Run?
In which battle did Nathan Bedford Forrest unlimber his field artillery only yards from the Federal line, shredding their troops with canister?
Who is this Confederate Maj. General?

Which battle featured the first armored railroad battery to be used in combat?
Which battle is also known as Rutherford’s Farm?
What battle happened the next day, after the Battle of Cross Keys on June 8th, 1862?
In which battle did Maj. Gen. John Schofield’s army of Union troops pass Confederate defenders in the night.
Which battle ensured John Pope’s defeat at the Second Battle of Manassas by allowing Longstreet’s advance to unite the Confederate wings in Manassas?
In which battle did the bozo Felix Zollicoffer die after mistakenly riding into enemy lines?
Who utilized the unfinished railroad bed to flank the Union left flank at the Battle of the Wilderness?
Who died while leading a charge across the Wheatfield at the Battle of Gettysburg on July 2, 1863?
In which battle did Maj. Gen. Philip Kearny mistakenly ride into Confederate lines and was killed as a result?
Which battle opened up the “Cracker Line”?
Which three battles were part of the Lynchburg campaign of May-June 1864?
Who was the commander of the Union forces during the Battle of Cedar Creek?
Who is this Union Major General?
Did the Union win the Battle of Monocacy?
Who were the Union and Confederate commanders during the Battle of Chickamauga?
During the three battles around Chattanooga, what was what one officer called, “the grandest sight I had ever witnessed’?
Which battle is not a part of Lee’s Retreat in April of 1865?
What was the first battle of the Northern Virginia campaign, where Robert E. Lee moved north toward Washington D.C?
Who is this, known in the Southern press as the “Savior of the Valley”?

What did Grant send President Lincoln, prompting Lincoln to say, “Here is something material – something I can see, feel and understand.”
Which Confederate regiment charged up Little Round Top, attempting to flank the Union position?
Which battle featured Brig. Gen. George Custer’s cavalry storming a damaged railroad bridge, clearing the bridgehead and repairing the bridge to provide safe passage for an entire division to cross?
Which battle featured the Confederates pushing the Federals across McFadden’s Ford, only to be devastated by Union artillery amassed on the ridge above?
What colonel was killed during the Battle of Five Forks?
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Who was killed by a sharpshooter shortly after saying, “They couldn’t hit an elephant at this distance?”
Which two battles were part of the Kentucky “Confederate Heartland Offensive” in 1862?
Which unit was famously involved in the Second Battle of Fort Wagner?
Which battle was a tactical defeat for Stonewall Jackson, because faulty intelligence led him to believe he was attacking a small detachment?
From what location did Grant watch the Battle of Missionary Ridge?
Which was not a battle during Lee’s Retreat from Gettysburg?
Which was a battle that Confederate Lt. General Nathan Bedford Forrest did not take part in?
Which was not one of the Seven Days Battles during the Peninsula Campaign?
Whose division arrived just in time from Harper’s Ferry to halt Burnside’s assault at Antietam?
Who is featured on this monument?

What Civil War campaign was the bloodiest in American history?
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Which battle features the landmark Elkhorn Tavern?
Who is this Confederate Lt. General?

Who is this fast-rising Union Major General?

What battlefield is this located?

 

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Who is this Union Major General?

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Whose raids behind Robert E. Lee’s rear areas in 1863 were lackluster, with him ending up in a desk job after treatment for chronic hemorrhoids?
Who is this Union Major General, victor in prominent Western Theater battles?

Who is this Union Major General, best known for his defeat at the Second Battle of Bull Run?

Which battlefield does this painting represent?

Which battle featured the landmarks Reed’s Bridge and Alexander’s Bridge?
Who is this Confederate Brig. Gen. who died on July 3rd, 1863?

Where did Gen. Grant land 17,000 forces, the largest amphibious operation in American military history until the Invasion of Normandy?
Did the Confederates win the Battle of Pea Ridge?
During the Battle of Missionary Ridge, Sherman was to attack the Confederates from the north, and Hooker from the south. Who was to attack the center of the Confederate defenses?
Whose aggressive and well-executed performance at the Battle of Sayler’s Creek effectively sealed the fate of Lee’s army, capturing over 20% of his remaining men?
Did the Union win the Battle of Bristoe Station?
Who was often referred to as the “Hero of Little Round Top”?
Whose commission to Brigadier General was rumored to have been read to them on their deathbed?
What battlefield is this?

Who is this Union Major General?

In which battle was Confederate corps commander Lt. Gen. A.P. Hill killed?
Who was the commander of the Confederate forces during the Battle of Nashville?
Which campaign contained the battles of Cool Spring, Second Kernstown, Folck’s Mill, and Moorefield?
Who defeated Lew Wallace in the Battle of Monocacy near Frederick, Maryland?
The Battle of Gettysburg had the highest number of casualties at ~51,000. Which battle is second in casualties with ~34,624?
Which battle has been called, “Lee’s perfect battle”?
What battlefield is this?

Which was the next battle in the Vicksburg campaign, after the Battle of Raymond?
Which battle forced a change in plans, leading the Union to attack the Confederates at a different point in their line during the First Battle of Bull Run?
Who is this Union Major General, felled by a sharpshooter’s bullet during the Battle of Spotsylvania Court House?

Which was the first major battle of the Trans-Mississippi theater?
Who is this Union Major General?

Which battle was the first combat test in the Civil War for Ulysses S. Grant?
Who is this Union Major General “rock” star?

Who was the commander of the Confederate forces during the Battle of Stones River?
Which was the largest battle fought in the state of Kentucky?
Who is this former vice-President, who won his most significant victory at the 1864 Battle of New Market?

Which Union cavalry Brig. Gen was lured into an ambush during the Buckland Races?
Which was the first pitched battle of the Peninsula Campaign?
Whose innovative tactic of columns of massed infantry would swiftly assault a small part of the enemy line, without pausing to trade fire?
Which battle did Robert E. Lee tell A.P Hill to, “bury these poor men and let us say no more about it,” after the Confederate loss?
Which battle from the Overland Campaign contains the landmark Enon Church?
Who was killed while scouting enemy positions at Pine Mountain, near Marietta, Georgia?
Who launched the Red River Campaign, a failed attempt to occupy northern Louisiana and eastern Texas that prompted his recall?
Did the Confederates win the Battle of Prairie Grove?
The Seven Days Battles began with a Union attack in which battle?
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During which battle did Nathan Bedford Forrest announce, “I did not come here to surrender my command” and escaped with about seven hundred of his cavalrymen?
Did the Confederates with the Battle of Kennesaw Mountain?
Where on the Gettysburg battlefield is this statue of Warren?

Which battle featured the landmarks Saunders Field and Chewning Farm?
In which battle was Confederate leadership at a shad bake lunch while the battle occurred?
Which battle featured the first use of semaphore signaling in combat, with the message “Look out for your left, your position is turned.”?
Which Kansas battle was one of the largest cavalry engagements of the war?
What landmark did the Union make their final stand on during the last day of the Battle of Chickamauga?
Which fort did President Lincoln visit, where he was brusquely ordered to take cover by an officer?
Did the Union with the Battle of Gaines’ Mill?
Who is this Brig. Gen, mortally wounded at the Battle of Fredericksburg?

In which battle was George Custer wounded and saved by his orderly?
Which battle contains the “Field of Lost Shoes”?
Which battle was known as the “Gettysburg of the West”, with over 30,000 men engaged?
Which battle featured the landmarks Laurel Hill and the Mule Shoe?
Who was relieved of command over their disastrous performance during the Second Battle of Bull Run?
What famous raider was killed in Tennessee by Union cavalrymen after being surprised while sleeping?
Who commanded the Army of the Potomac Cavalry Corps during the Battle of Brandy Station?
Who accompanied Stonewall Jackson on his famous flanking march of May 2, 1863?
Which battle from the Overland Campaign features Jericho Mill and Ox Ford?
Which was the first battle in which Robert E. Lee led troops into combat?
Which battle was not a part of Sheridan’s Shenandoah Valley campaign of August-October 1864?
Which battle featured the landmarks Fleetwood Hill and St. James Church?
Who fought at First Bull Run, occupied Marye’s Heights, commanded at Gettysburg, and shot during the Battle of Wilderness?
Did the Confederates win the Battle of Ball’s Bluff?
Which battlefield features the landmark Carter House and the Carnton Plantation?
Who is this Union Major General, killed in 1863?

Which battle featured a supply area in Mississippi, mainly defended by untrained black troops, who fought with inferior weaponry but help from Union gunboats?
Who is this General?

Who surrendered to Sherman at the Bennett Place, North Carolina on April 26th, 1865?
Who is this “Stonewall of the West”?

Which was the largest cavalry battle of the Civil War?
Which battle was Lee’s best chance cut off the Union Army from the safety of the James River?
Who is this Union Major General?
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Who is this General?

Which campaign was regarded as “one of the most brilliant maneuvers of the American Civil War”, but overshadowed by the Union victories in Gettysburg and Vicksburg?
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Which General was killed during the Battle of Shiloh?
Which battle saw Philip Sheridan’s arrival to rally his defeated troops, and utterly rout Jubal Early’s Confederates with a Union counterattack?

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