Use this link for the questions below: Significant Civil War Battles
1) What was the first major battle of the Civil War where causalities were high?
2) What was the date of the battle?
3) There are two names for this battle? What were they? Why do Civil War battles have two names? (do a generic search on GOOGLE for the answer).
Use this link for the questions below: Bull Run
1) The Battle of Bull Run was fought within miles of what important city?
2) When it says just miles from this city what is your guess at how far it is?
3) How far is it really? Search in GoogleMaps and find the distance between Manassas National Battlefield Park to the U.S. Capitol. (basically look for directions from one spot to the other).
4) Who was the Union leader in charge? The Confederate?
5) How many Confederate and how many Union Soldiers were engaged?
6) What was the goal of the Union?
7) What earned Col. Thomas Jackson his nickname - Stonewall?
8) We discussed advantages of the North and South. What did the Confederates use in this battle that we would have thought was a Union advantage?
9) When reinforcements arrived for the Confederates the McDowell decided to retreat. What made the retreat a mess and where did they retreat to?
10) What was McDowell's fate after the battle?
Read the Letter of Major Sullivan Ballou to his wife: The Last Letter of Major Sullivan Ballou
and answer the three questions at the bottom of the letter.
Then read Reid's Letter
and answer question 1 & 2 at the bottom of the letter.
The Naval Blockade
Use the link below to answer this question: Reading the first paragraph within the link you find out that the Union had how many ships ready for combat?
Naval Blockade
Navy Facts : Use this link for the questions below:
1) The Anaconda Plan suggested by Winfield Scott relied heavily on sea power. However covering a stretch from Virginia all the way to Texas would be hard to do with the ships available. Read Fact #2 and ascertain how the Union planned to pull it off and write it down.
2) Using Fact #7: Was the Northern Blockade successful? Why? What are blockade runners? (Click the link on the webpage and read the summary at the top and the first paragraph).
3) Using Fact #8: What was the Trent Affair?
4) Using Fact #9: How did Farragut capture New Orleans? When?
