Civil War kn 3/4

when was the battle of shiloh

• April 6-7, 1862
• May 1-2, 1862
• April 5-6, 1861
• March 15-16, 1863

At this battle the confederates launched a surprise attack on the union forces on the morning of april 6

• Battle of Shiloh
• Battle of Bull Run
• Battle of Antietam
• Battle of Gettysburg

he was killed on the first day of the battle of shiloh and was the highest ranking officer from either side killed during the civil war

• General Ulysses S. Grant
• General Albert Sidney Johnston
• General Robert E. Lee
• General William Tecumseh Sherman

He took over as general after Albert Sidney Johnston's death

• Robert E. Lee
• James Longstreet
• P.G.T. Beauregard
• Stonewall Jackson

Victory of this battle gave the union a foothold in the western theater of the war and particularly in the mississippi

• Battle of Shiloh
• Battle of Vicksburg
• Battle of Antietam
• Battle of Gettysburg

Fort Donelson was a union victory during these dates?

• March 10 to March 15, 1862
• February 20 to February 25, 1862
• February 11 to February 16, 1862

• January 1 to January 5, 1862

In Fort Donelson, the Confederates initially held off an attack by union gunboats located along what river?

• Tennessee River
• Mississippi River
• Cumberland River
• Ohio River

At Fort Donelson, Confederate forces seemed on the verge of success until they did these two things which gave Ulysses S Grant time to find a weak point and attack

• Underestimated Grant's capabilities and spread their forces too thin.
• Halted and Retreated too early.

• Ignored intelligence reports and fortified their positions excessively.
• Overestimated Grant's strategies and concentrated their forces too heavily.

At Fort Donelson, Confederate genrals Gideon Pillow and John Floyd fled, leaving behind 13000 soldiers who waved a white flag above their fortifications.

• true

• false

At Fort Donelson, The rebels/confederates asked for the terms of surrender and Grant replied with these terms?

• no terms "except unconditional and immediate surrender"

• The terms required Confederate soldiers to surrender their weapons immediately.
• The terms demanded that all Confederate officers be captured and imprisoned.
• The terms included a complete disbandment of the Confederate army.