Ready for some Civil War (American) trivia?

Question

1. Who were the two commanding officers(North and South) at Gettysburg?
2. Who were the two commanding officers at Vicksburg?
3. Who were the two commanding officers at the battle of Nashville?
4. What 2 events pretty much blew it for the Southern cause, on July4,1863?

Trust me,she said. I am a 57 year old who loves many subjects. I like to pose questions as a sort of game or contest for you all. Been doing it all summer and people love it. Have fun!

This ain't no homework assignment. I graduated from college 35 years ago!

Where oh where are the adults? I guess not home from work, yet.

Please no cut and paste!

Maybe I should have said,"doomed the Confederacy." Sorry.

Answer 1

1) General Meade (North) - General Lee (South)
2) General Ulysses S. Grant (North) - Lieutenant General John C. Pemberton (South)
3) George H. Thomas (North) - John Bell Hood (South)
4) The defeat at the Battle of Gettysburg, most especially at Pickett's Charge and the Vicksburg surrendering to Grant

Answer 2

1. Lee and Meade
2. Grant and Pemberton
3. Schofield and Hood
4. One-Two punch of Gettysburg and Vicksburg (denied the confederacy access to the North at Gettysburg and obtained control of the Mississippi at Vicksburg).

Answer 3

Commanding at gettysburg Geoge meade union. Lee south
Commanding vicksburg U.S. Grant union. John Pemberton South
Commanding at Nashville William techumseh sherman union. John B. Hood soth

the only things that I know why the south lost that day were that Lee had his army annialated after 1. Pickets charge, he also should have follwed Longstreets advisory to march on D.C., Instead he stayed and lost big

Answer 4

Where have you been sunshine, missed your Civil War questions, without googling it, i just know #1....Meade and Lee..#2 was Grant, and i think Johnston? (guess) and i haven't a clue about #3.

The day after Pickett's Charge was July 4, 1863, so i'm not sure how the South blew it. They did the best thing at the time and retreated south of the Potomic before Meade could cut them off.

Answer 5

It is always interesting to examine history. Robert E. Lee was Grant's superior in the war against Mexico. He was always Grant's superior, and by far the better commander. When the war started Lee was the commadant of the West Point Academy. Grant was a failure in civilian life. The Civil War provided him redemption. He was not brilliant, but the troops admired him for his endurance and ability to withstand the same adversity as they did. He knew only one direction in battle: forward. Lincoln liked him because he would fight. His rash decisions caused the Union thousands of lives. He was sometimes drunk while there was a lull in the battle, but he never cowered in the face of danger. He was a terrible president. He was not corrupt, but those around him were, and they used him for their gains. He had the class at Appomattox to offer General Lee a gracious reception and to be as lenient as he could to the surviving confederate soldiers. They were allowed to take their horses and their rifles home to start a new life. He died of throat cancer. He wasn't perfect or brilliant, he was just there at the right time and at the right place.

Answer 6

Been watching North and South again huh

leave Patrick Swayze in the 90's

Answer 7

California became no longer in contact with the aid of fact it became so a strategies removed from the action and became already a loose a loose state so it is in basic terms contribution could have been tax money for the union and in keeping with possibility some nutrients for the infantrymen. Missouri became actual in contact interior the conflict and the Missouri Compromise actual began to warmth up the debate over slavery. Louisiana became in contact and had some battles there and became considered necessary to the union' physique of recommendations with the aid of fact the wanted to divide the south contained in the direction of the Mississippi River. different areas of the west have been in contact albeit no longer as plenty with the aid of fact no longer many considerable battles surpassed off in a lot of those states. additionally those states have been a strategies removed from the authentic action with the aid of there relative distance from the main cities on the east coast and rather low populations

Answer 8

1. meade & lee, 2. pemberton & grant, 3?, 4. defeats at gettysburg & vicksburg

Answer 9

Uncle Billy is correct on all points EXCEPT for a technical call on the two "defeats" on July 4, 1863, and YOU are guilty of using the conventional name for that conflict instead of the OFFICIAL NAME.

I desire for Uncle Billy to get the 10 points because only professional military historians--especially those at West Point--consider Lee to have not been defeated at Gettesburb but only, from the North's perspective, stalemated.

Lee was NOT driven from the battle field but withdrew in an orderly fashion after accomplishing several purposes by his invasion of the North: (1) Relieving military pressure on Richmond, (2) Proving to the main European powers that the Confederacy was a viable national entity and not just a fortress under seige, (3) Unsettling the civilian populations of the North by posing the threat of repeated Southern invasions at a time when the war was becoming highly unpopular (did you know there was a Northwest Confederacy of Minn/Wisc/Mich/Ill/Ind that was attempted and also a Tri-Insular Republic composed of New York City in its entirety? --FACTS!! Look up the Copperheads and the Knights of the Golden Circle on the Web for some fastinating and little-know American history).

(4) Lee was intent on following up the economic warfare being waged by Judah P. Benjamin (CSS State of War and of the Treasury) who had succeeded by then to introduce ruinous inflation in the North, which was shaking Lincoln's administration and greatly heightened Lincoln's chance of being unseated in the next presidential election. (As it was, Lincoln declared martial law in Chicago during the Demcractic National Convention even though there was no threat to public order and had all the key Democratic delegates arrested and put in prison for the duration of the War--thus earning for himself the appendage of "Dictator" in the South for decades after the War was over.

Additionally, (5) Lee went North to support the nearly army-sized calvary raids at that time by other Confederate generals into Indiana and Ohio--which greatly rattled the North as well. One of my ancestors who was a Confederal general failed by a hair's breath of organizing a follow-on invasion of Ohio with a fully mounted army of 4,000 elite Confederate cavalry. Only the lack of sufficent number of wagons to transport food stocks for the animals defeated his effort as he had the troopers and horses lined up and ready to go.

FINALLY, the official name for that conflict AS PASSED BY CONGRESS AND SIGNED INTO LAW is "The War Between the States". That name was selected about 1885 or so when everyone was trying to get the United States patched back together.

Facts, my dear asker of good questions. But, please let Uncle Billy have the points. He has the conventional answer on Part Four and can be forgiven for that.

(Did you know the last shot of the War was fired 100 miles west of San Francisco some three months after Lee's Surrender? And that the Confederacy fought a brief war with Morocco? The South also was first with operational submarines and electric mines for blowing up ships, the first to use iron-armored steamships in combat, and had an military air service as well (balloons).

And the Confederacy was the first to sail any type of armored warship across the Atlanic (The CSS Stonewall), which also was the first "modern-style" multi-turrent battleship to sail ANYWHERE for a war-combatant.

Another "trivia" thing but indedicative of what the War was REALLY fought over (see below) was that CSA President Jefferson Daivs and Vernie, his wife, adopted a six-year-old Black boy as their son during the War--not for show but because it was an expression of their heart-felt love for the boy. The youth was stolen from Davis' wife during the fall of Richmond and disappeared into history never to be heard of again. Davis spent the rest of his life trying to find that person, even as an adult somewhere in America.

Oh, and the South came within ONE DAY of winning. Lee did not know that the same night he withdrew from the trenches of Petersburg Virginia that a group of federal officials arrived in Grant's camp at Lincoln's express orders. They were to raise a white flag the next day and begin negoiations with Lee and Davis to conclude a peace treaty--that Lincoln had finally had enough of bloodshed and was willing to toss it in!! VERY HONEST FACT!!

One day and the Confederacy would have triumphed in its fight for States Rights, no import tarrifs, and a limited national government.

(And, sir, your "doomed" is incorrect. Those battles on July 4, 1863 DID NOT signal the end of the Confederacy. What did was Lincoln's agents recruiting all over Europe--particularly Ireland and Germany--for fresh soldiery as the North was thoroughly sick of the War Between the States, draft riots were common, young men fleeing to Canada and buying replacements to take their places in the Union armies had introduced a severe personnel shortage in the Northern rank and file and, again, the South's troops were continuing to force Union commanders to obtain real estate at frightful cost in blood and lives. Only the infusion of entire divisions of Irish and German-speaking soldiers kept the North in the War for the last 18 months, if not TWO YEARS. --FACT!!

All these items also are true!)

Answer 10

here goes...

1. robert lee (south) and...i forgot who the other guy was
2. i forgot
3. i forgot
4. these two battles i think, but i forgot the names