US Civil War History Made Easy Quiz

Celebrate the Civil War: 150 Year Anniversary

The American (US) Civil War (1861-1865), also known as the War Between the States and several other names, is a civil war in the United States of America. 

Eleven Southern slave states declared their secession from the United States and formed the Confederate States of America (the Confederacy).  Led by Jefferson Davis, they fought against the United States (the Union), which was supported by all the free states and the five border slave states.  Union states were loosely referred to as "the North".

• Cavalry

• Civil War: Causes of the War

• Civil War: Liberty and Union, Now and Forever?

• Civil War: The Beginning

• Civil War: The March into War

• Civil War: The Nation Divides

• Countdown to War

• Origins of the Civil War

  • The Early Republic

  • Missouri Compromise

• Civil War Soldiers

  • Union

    • George Crook

    • George Armstrong Custer

    • Ulysses S. Grant

      • Early Years

      • Civil War 1861-July 1863

      • Civil War Mid 1863 to 1865

      • President

    • William T. Sherman

      • Early Years

      • Civil War 1861 to Mid-1863

      • Civil War Mid-1863 to 1865

      • Post Civil War

  • Confederate

    • Robert E. Lee

      • Early Years

      • Civil War I

      • Civil War 2

    • Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson

      • Early Years

      • 1861 to Mid-1862

      • Mid-1862 to May 1863

    • JEB Stuart

      • The Early Years

      • Early Civil War

      • Civil War 1863 - 1864

• Early Stages of the Civil War

• Battles

  • 1861

    • Battle of Fort Sumter (April 12, 1861 - April 13, 1861)

    • Battle of Philippi (June 3, 1861)

    • Battle of Hokes Run (July 2, 18610

    • Battle of Rich Mountain (July 11, 1861)

    • Battle of Corrick's Ford  (July 13, 1861)

    • First Battle of Bull Run (July 21, 1861)

    • Battle of Wilson's Creek (August 10, 1861)

  • 1862

    • New Mexico Campaign (February to April 1862)

    • Battle of Fort Henry (February 6, 1862)

    • Battle of Fort Donelson ( February 11 to February 16, 1862)

    • Battle of Shiloh (April 6 to April 8, 1862)

    • Antietam Campaign (September 1862)

      • Battle of Mile Hill (September 2, 1862)

      • Battle of Harpers Ferry (Sept. 12-15, 1862)

      • Battle of South Mountain (Sept. 14, 1862)

  • 1863

    • The Fight at Aldie (March 2, 1863)

    • Battle of Brandy Station (June 9, 1863)

    • Gettysburg (July 1, 1863 - July 3, 1863)

  • 1864

    • Battle of the Wilderness (May 5 - 7, 1864)

• John Brown's Raid

  • Planning

  • Day 1

  • Day 2

  • Day 3 and Aftermath

• Secession Begins

• Units and Troops

  • Mosby's Rangers