ARTILLERY
SIEGE IQ CHALLENGE
ARTILLERY LEVEL
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FREDERICKSBURG & SPOTSYLVANIA
Just before the opening of the Overland Campaign, newly appointed Lt. Gen. Grant ramarked to Gen. Meade "Lee's army will be . . ." Finish this quote.
The opening battles of the campaign between Grant and Lee took place near Fredericksburg. List two reasons why that area had seen so much action over the course of the war.
RICHMOND
Identify where the Confederate wounded in Richmond were treated during the siege.
Just seven miles south of Richmond lay the key of the city's river defenses. The fort was known by the Confederates as . . .
As the battle of Peebles Farm (Sept. 30, 1864) took place around Petersburg, Gen. Lee personally organized the counterattack to re-take which fort around Richmond?
PETERSBURG
In his last conference with Generals Grant and Sherman and Admiral Porter, Lincoln discussed the terms of surrender for Confederate forces. When and where was this meeting?
Why are the identities of nearly eight-percent of the Union and Confederate dead buried in Petersburg unknown?
APPOMATTOX COURT HOUSE
On April 4, 1865 the turning point of the Appomattox Camapaign took place. Where did this occur and what happened?
On April 7, 1865 Gen. Longstreet tells Lee "Not yet." What was this in reply to?
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