Battle and or History description | Answer |
Brevet Lt. General Winfield Scott was ridiculed in 1861 for this plan that involved the two-pronged offense that included blockading the seaports and seizing the Mississippi River. | |
The occupation of this Illinois city began in late April 1861, along the confluence of the Mississippi and Ohio Rivers was a staging point for the advancing Union army. | |
What was US General Grants first large battle moving into Confederate soil? | |
Soon after the Battle of (number 3), General Grant pushed up the Tennessee River and quickly forced the surrender of this mostly evaucated fort called? | |
Marching eastward on foot, General Grant quickly surrounded this fort only days later? | |
Fort (answer 5) was along what river? | |
The battle for number three's site was chosen by Union landing because of this citie's heavily fortified city grounds opposite it, also nicknamed 'The iron banks of ......?' | |
What was the largest city along the banks of the Mississippi River? | |
This Fort was one of two main forts defending the southern approach to (number 8), this fort however had a mutiny days before and possibly causing its premature fall. | |
This is the other fort defending the southern approach to (number 8). | |
Illinois may be known as 'the land of Lincoln,' but was acutally born in this Mississippi River state? | |
Which city along the river, was a popular destination for wealthy owners to live even after the Civil War boasting the most millionaires in the United States at one point? | |
General Grant's first initials were U.S. Grant when in West Point's books. After capturing (number 5), the U.S. in his first two initials were called by many? | |
In March 1862, General Polk, commander of Columbus realized his flank was turned after Grant seized the Middle Tennessee forts (Questions 4&5), retreating with 100 guns to? | |
In Corinth, Mississippi this general brought most of his theater of operations against the Isolated Grant to reverse the fortunes of early 1862 at (Number 16)? | |
As Don Carlos Buell's Army mached from the newly seized Tennessee capital, Grant's Army waited at this landing along the Tennessee? | |
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