Summer 2006: Week 5, Round 3
History: The American Civil War
The first four questions concern battles that were known by different names in the North and in the
South. Given the less common (usually Southern) name, provide the more common (usually Northern) name
of the battle in question.
1. First Manassas
A: First Bull Run
2. Sharpsburg
A: Antietam
3. Pittsburgh Landing
A: Shiloh
4. Murfreesboro
A: Stones River
5. Historians tend to place the "turning point" of the war in early July of 1863. Two crucial events
occurred in the first four days of that month. In the East, there was the battle of Gettysburg. In the
West, what crucial event occurred?
A: the fall of Vicksburg
6. What crucial announcement had Lincoln been waiting to make until there was some success in the
Eastern front of the war. It was finally announced after the battle at Antietam.
A: The Emancipation Proclamation
7. In what year did New Orleans, the South's largest city, fall to Farragut's naval invasion?
A: 1862
8. In what year did Atlanta fall to Sherman's March through Georgia?
A: 1864
9. Grant was often accused of being wasteful of the lives of his men, at least during his campaign
against Lee. But Grant only acknowledged ever regretting one attack--an attack which proved to be
virtually suicidal for his soldiers. At which battle was this attack launched?
A: Cold Harbor
10. In the first years of the war, Stonewall Jackson was the paramount hero of the Confederacy,
eclipsing even Robert E. Lee. At which battle was he killed?
A: Chancellorsville