Battles of the Civil War

What was the first battle of the Civil War?

• Fort Sumter
• The Atlanta Campaign
• Sherman's March to the Sea
• Appomattox Court House

Where did the South finally surrender unconditionally?

• Antietam
• Gettysburg
• Richmond
• Appomattox

Who was the leading general of the Confederate army?

• Grant
• Lee
• Jackson
• McClellan

Which Civil War battle lasted three days in Pennsylvania, ended in a cemetery, and was the turning point of the war? 

• Bull Run 
• Gettysburg 
• Antietam   
• Vicksburg 

The first state to secede from the Union was?

• Virginia
• North Carolina
• Arkansas
• South Carolina

Considered a turning point of the war; North becomes confident of winning the war

• Battle of Shiloh
• Battle of Gettysburg
• Battle of Pittsburg
• Battle of Chickamauga

Bloodiest Battle day of the war (23,000 casualties) Confederates lost 1/3 of their army.

• Battle of Bull Run
• Battle of the Bulge
• Battle of Antietam
• Battle of Fort Sumter

Grant besieged this city in Mississippi from May 18 to July 4, 1863, until it surrendered, yielding command of the Mississippi River to the Union.

• Battle of Vicksburg
• Battle of New Orleans
• Battle of Savannah
• Battle of Fort Sumter

This battle was enough of a victory for Lincoln to issue the Emancipation Proclamation

• Gettysburg
• Antietam 
• Fort Sumter
• Vicksburg

Grant won this battle,taking control of Mississippi River and was then promoted to Head General

• Vicksburg
• Gettysburg
• Shiloh
• Antietam