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A military quartermaster is ✔Correct answer-a supply officer
A temporary bridge used by the military that is constructed by nailing stringers and planks on flat-
bottomed boats is called a ✔Correct answer-pontoon bridge
Abraham Lincoln believed that if he lost the presidential election of 1864, his opponent would
✔Correct answer-seek peace that would grant the Confederacy its independence
An estimated two-thirds of the 620,000 deaths that occurred in Civil War armies were caused by
✔Correct answer-disease
City Point, Virginia was the site of ✔Correct answer-a massive Union supply depot during Grant's
Petersburg Campaign
Efforts to preserve the Civil War battlefield at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania began with purchase of land
adjacent to the town's Evergreen Cemetery ✔Correct answer-in July, 1863 within weeks of the
battle
Gettysburg attorneys David Wills and David McConaughy ✔Correct answer-led efforts to preserve
portions of the battlefield and establish a cemetery for the Union dead
In 1864, U.S. Grant was promoted to command ✔Correct answer-all Union armies in the field
In 1915, the Gettysburg battlefield became one of the nation's first ✔Correct answer-national
military parks
In June of 1864, U.S. Grant was able to get the Army of the Potomac into the rear of Lee's army at
Petersburg by crossing the James River ✔Correct answer-by crossing a pontoon bridge built by his
engineers
Little Round Top at Gettysburg ✔Correct answer-was the left (southern) flank of the Union linewas
the scene of bitter fighting on July 2was the scene of fighting chronicled in the writings of Joshua
Lawrence Chamberlain, Colonel of the 20th Maine and later brought to public attention in the 1993
film, "Gettysburg"may not have been as vital to the outcome of the battle as some historians and
much of the public believe
Movement of men and supplies behind the Union lines during the Siege of Petersburg was made
faster and more efficient by ✔Correct answer-the U.S. Military Railroad
Robert E. Lee was ✔Correct answer-commander of the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia
from 1862 to 1865
Robert E. Lee's objective for Pickett's Charge on the final day of the Battle of Gettysburg was
✔Correct answer-Ziegler's Grove, a stand of trees on Cemetery Hill according to reports written after
the battle by Lee and his officers
, Supplies for U.S. Grant's armies during the siege of Petersburg were ✔Correct answer-shipped by
sea to his supply base at City Point
The 280 buildings erected at the City Point supply depot were ✔Correct answer-were
prefabricated in northern mills and shipped to City Point via the Chesapeake Bay
The Battle of Gettysburg was fought in ✔Correct answer-Pennsylvania in 1863
Civil war battle that took place in southern va was ✔Correct answer-Petersburg
Civil war battle that took place in southern pa was ✔Correct answer-Gettysburg
The Civil War commander who won victories at Shiloh, Vicksburg, Chattanooga, and Appomattox
Courthouse was ✔Correct answer-U.S. Grant
The Civil War commander who won victories at Second Manassas, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville,
and Cold Harbor was ✔Correct answer-Robert E. Lee
The U.S. Sanitary Commission and the Christian Commission at Petersburg ✔Correct answer-
provided doctors and nurses for the woundedestablished relief stations behind the Union lines to
provide comfort to the soldierswere civilian organizations staffed by volunteersincluded a number of
women
The commander of the Confederate army that fought at Gettysburg was ✔Correct answer-Robert
E. Lee
The crisis that faced the Confederacy in the early summer of 1863 that led Robert E. Lee to seek a
decisive victory on Northern soil was ✔Correct answer-U.S. Grant's campaign to capture of the
strong point of Vicksburg, Mississippi
The first efforts to preserve portions of the Gettysburg battlefield were made by ✔Correct answer-
private citizens of Gettysburg, David McConaughy and David Wills
The first officer in the U.S. Army to be promoted to the rank of Lieutenant General since George
Washington was ✔Correct answer-Ulysses S. Grant
The site on the Gettysburg battlefield where the 154 the New York Infantry Regiment made a stand
behind a rail fence against attacking Confederates is now largely obscured by ✔Correct answer-a
residential neighborhood
When William Tecumseh Sherman's army captured the city of Atlanta on September 2, 1864, the
victory was the key to ✔Correct answer-Abraham Lincoln's reelection in November
Approximately 90 percent of the hardwood timber growing in the United States is located in
✔Correct answer-the eastern states
Approximately two thirds of the softwood timber growing in the eastern United States is located in
✔Correct answer-Pennsylvania and New York
Approximately two thirds of the softwood timber growing in the United States is located in
✔Correct answer-the western states