How well do you know the Civil War?

Who is this Brig. Gen, mortally wounded at the Battle of Fredericksburg?

Who is this Confederate General with the nickname, “Little Napolean”?

Who was killed while scouting enemy positions at Pine Mountain, near Marietta, Georgia?
Which Union cavalry Brig. Gen was lured into an ambush during the Buckland Races?
Who is this Union Major General?
Who surrendered to Sherman at the Bennett Place, North Carolina on April 26th, 1865?
In which battle was Confederate corps commander Lt. Gen. A.P. Hill killed?
Which Kansas battle was one of the largest cavalry engagements of the war?
Which was the next battle in the Vicksburg campaign, after the Battle of Raymond?
Who died while leading a charge across the Wheatfield at the Battle of Gettysburg on July 2, 1863?
What battlefield is this?

 

 

Which fort did President Lincoln visit, where he was brusquely ordered to take cover by an officer?
Who is this Union Major General, victor in prominent Western Theater battles?

What battlefield is this?

Which General was killed during the Battle of Shiloh?
In which battle was J.E.B Stuart killed?
Which battle features the landmark Elkhorn Tavern?
What battle happened the next day, after the Battle of Cross Keys on June 8th, 1862?
Who were the Union and Confederate commanders during the Battle of Chickamauga?
Which battlefield is this?

 

Who was often referred to as the “Hero of Little Round Top”?
What battlefield is this?

 

Who is this Confederate Lt. General?

Who is this Union Major General?

Whose unconditional surrender did Grant accept at Fort Donelson?
What colonel was killed during the Battle of Five Forks?
What was the first battle of the Northern Virginia campaign, where Robert E. Lee moved north toward Washington D.C?
Who was the commander of the Union forces during the Battle of Cedar Creek?
From what location did Grant watch the Battle of Missionary Ridge?
Who is this General?

Which battle was not part of the Bristoe Campaign?
Which two battles were part of the Kentucky “Confederate Heartland Offensive” in 1862?
Which was not a battle during Lee’s Retreat from Gettysburg?
Who is this Union Major General?

In which battle did Maj. Gen. Philip Kearny mistakenly ride into Confederate lines and was killed as a result?
What landmark did the Union make their final stand on during the last day of the Battle of Chickamauga?
In which battle  was Confederate cavalry general William “Grumble” Jones killed?
Who was relieved of command over their disastrous performance during the Second Battle of Bull Run?
Did the Confederates win the Battle of Ball’s Bluff?
Who is this General?

Which battle featured the Confederates pushing the Federals across McFadden’s Ford, only to be devastated by Union artillery amassed on the ridge above?
Who utilized the unfinished railroad bed to flank the Union left flank at the Battle of the Wilderness?
Who is this Confederate Lt. General?

Who is this?

Which battle featured a supply area in Mississippi, mainly defended by untrained black troops, who fought with inferior weaponry but help from Union gunboats?
Did the Union with the Battle of Gaines’ Mill?
Which was not a battle of the Maryland campaign?
Which battle saw Philip Sheridan’s arrival to rally his defeated troops, and utterly rout Jubal Early’s Confederates with a Union counterattack?
Who was the first Union general to be killed in the war?
In which Mississippi battle did Union Maj. Gen. William T. Sherman order a frontal assault, which was repulsed with heavy casualties?
Which battle was Lee’s best chance cut off the Union Army from the safety of the James River?
Who fought at First Bull Run, occupied Marye’s Heights, commanded at Gettysburg, and shot during the Battle of Wilderness?
Whose commission to Brigadier General was rumored to have been read to them on their deathbed?
Did the Union win the Battle of Bristoe Station?
Did the Confederates win the Battle of Pea Ridge?
Who is this Union Major General “rock” star?

Which battle was not a part of Sheridan’s Shenandoah Valley campaign of August-October 1864?
Which was a battle that Confederate Lt. General Nathan Bedford Forrest did not take part in?
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?
Who defeated Lew Wallace in the Battle of Monocacy near Frederick, Maryland?
What battlefield is this?

 

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 George Custer wounded and saved by his orderly?
Who commanded the Army of Northeastern Virginia – the army that fought (and lost) the war’s first major battle at Bull Run?
Which battle was known as the “Gettysburg of the West”, with over 30,000 men engaged?
Which was the largest battle fought in the state of Kentucky?
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?
Who is this Union Major General, best known for his defeat at the Second Battle of Bull Run?

Did the Confederates with the Battle of Kennesaw Mountain?
Who is this fast-rising Union Major General?

Which battle was a tactical defeat for Stonewall Jackson, because faulty intelligence led him to believe he was attacking a small detachment?
Which battlefield features the landmark Carter House and the Carnton Plantation?
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Who accompanied Stonewall Jackson on his famous flanking march of May 2, 1863?
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?
Who is this former vice-President, who won his most significant victory at the 1864 Battle of New Market?

Did the Union with the Battle of Chickamauga?
Who is this Union Major General, killed in 1863?

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?
Which campaign contained the battles of Cool Spring, Second Kernstown, Folck’s Mill, and Moorefield?
Whose division arrived just in time from Harper’s Ferry to halt Burnside’s assault at Antietam?
Which battle featured the landmarks Reed’s Bridge and Alexander’s Bridge?
Which battle featured the first use of semaphore signaling in combat, with the message “Look out for your left, your position is turned.”?
What battlefield is this located?

 

Who is this “Stonewall of the West”?

Which three battles were part of the Lynchburg campaign of May-June 1864?
Which was the first major battle of the Trans-Mississippi theater?
Which was the first pitched battle of the Peninsula Campaign?
Which battle featured the first armored railroad battery to be used in combat?
Who replaced the conservative Joseph E. Johnston during the Atlanta campaign?
Who was the commander of the Confederate forces during the Battle of Stones River?
Who is this Confederate Maj. General?

Which battle featured the landmarks Saunders Field and Chewning Farm?
Who is this Confederate General?

Who is this Union Major General?
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?
What battlefield is this?

Who was killed by a sharpshooter shortly after saying, “They couldn’t hit an elephant at this distance?”
Which battle is also known as Rutherford’s Farm?
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, known in the Southern press as the “Savior of the Valley”?

Who is this Union Major General?

Which Confederate regiment charged up Little Round Top, attempting to flank the Union position?
Which battle has been called, “Lee’s perfect battle”?
What did Grant send President Lincoln, prompting Lincoln to say, “Here is something material – something I can see, feel and understand.”
Which battlefield is this?

 

Which was not one of the Seven Days Battles during the Peninsula Campaign?
What battlefield is this?

 

 

Which battle featured the landmarks Laurel Hill and the Mule Shoe?
Which battle featured the landmarks Fleetwood Hill and St. James Church?
During the three battles around Chattanooga, what was what one officer called, “the grandest sight I had ever witnessed’?
Who was the commander of the Confederate forces during the Battle of Nashville?
Where did Gen. Grant land 17,000 forces, the largest amphibious operation in American military history until the Invasion of Normandy?
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?
Did the Confederates win the Battle of Prairie Grove?
Which battlefield does this painting represent?

What Civil War campaign was the bloodiest in American history?
Which battle from the Overland Campaign contains the landmark Enon Church?
Where on the Gettysburg battlefield is this statue of Warren?

In which battle did Maj. Gen. John Schofield’s army of Union troops pass Confederate defenders in the night.
Who is featured on this monument?

Which was the first battle in which Robert E. Lee led troops into combat?
Which was the largest cavalry battle of the Civil War?
Who commanded the Army of the Potomac Cavalry Corps during the Battle of Brandy Station?
In which battle was Confederate leadership at a shad bake lunch while the battle occurred?
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?
What battlefield is this?

The Battle of Gettysburg had the highest number of casualties at ~51,000. Which battle is second in casualties with ~34,624?
Who is this Union Major General, felled by a sharpshooter’s bullet during the Battle of Spotsylvania Court House?

Which battle contains the “Field of Lost Shoes”?
Which battle opened up the “Cracker Line”?
Which unit was famously involved in the Second Battle of Fort Wagner?
In which battle did Nathan Bedford Forrest unlimber his field artillery only yards from the Federal line, shredding their troops with canister?
Who was the commander of the Union forces during the First Battle of Fredericksburg?
Which battle was the first combat test in the Civil War for Ulysses S. Grant?
Which battle from the Overland Campaign features Jericho Mill and Ox Ford?
Who is this Confederate Brig. Gen. who died on July 3rd, 1863?

The Seven Days Battles began with a Union attack in which battle?
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?
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?
Which battle is not a part of Lee’s Retreat in April of 1865?
In which battle did the bozo Felix Zollicoffer die after mistakenly riding into enemy lines?
What famous raider was killed in Tennessee by Union cavalrymen after being surprised while sleeping?
Did the Union win the Battle of Monocacy?
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 Bermuda Hundred Campaign?
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?
Whose innovative tactic of columns of massed infantry would swiftly assault a small part of the enemy line, without pausing to trade fire?
Who launched the Red River Campaign, a failed attempt to occupy northern Louisiana and eastern Texas that prompted his recall?

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