Civil War Mixture

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1. Grant said of this state after many of its soldiers formed a line of resistance at Shiloh, called the Hornet's Nest: "It is a young state but it is a home of heros. Those boys saved my Army." Which state was Grant speaking of? Ohio Illinois New York Iowa

2. What Union General officer didn't wear boots because they hurt his feet, so he wore shoes instead? Dan Sickles Thomas Jackson William Tecumseh Sherman John Logan

3. What is the name of the cartographer who found the road that Stonewall Jackson used to flank Hooker's Union Army at Chancellorsville? Jedediah Hotchkiss Joeseph Atlas Randy McNally Thaddeus Lowe

4. What was the first state capital to be lost to the Union by the Confederacy? Nashville, Tennessee Vicksburg, Mississippi Baton Rouge, Louisiana Colombia, South Carolina

5. On which battlefield would you find "Hell's Half-Acre?" Murfreesboro Sharpsburg Pea Ridge Atlanta

6. During the Civil War how many casualties were a result of the fire from Quaker Guns? 2,500 1,000 500 0

7. The Confederates under Ruggles massed sixty-two cannons and fired into a Union stronghold during this battle in 1862. Which battle was it? Gettysburg Shiloh Vicksburg Petersburg

8. Who was P.G.T. Beauregard's artillery instructor at West Point? Thomas Jackson Robert E. Lee William Hardee Robert Anderson

9. Where was the last stop for the ill-fated Sultana before it exploded? Cairo, Illinois St. Louis, Missouri Helena, Arkansas Vicksburg, Mississippi

10. Where was the largest massed charge of the Civil War? Gettysburg Cold Harbor Franklin Second Bull Run

11. Who was the author of 'Rifle and Light Infantry Tactics', used by both sides in the Civil War. Napoleon Bonaparte James Brooke John Dahlgren William Hardee

12. At the time that the CSS Hunley sank the USS Housatonic and then sank itself who was the commander? George Dixon Dixon Miles David Dixon Porter David Farragut

13. What was the name of the Seneca Indian that was at Appomattox and recorded the terms of surrender for Grant? Ely Parker John Ross Stand Watie Elihu Washburn

14. "General Hood, I make this charge under protest, sir, and if I survive I will come back here and kill you!" Which general uttered these words before the charge at Franklin took his life? Patrick Cleburne James Kemper Harry Hays Erasmus Keyes

15. Which general turned Arlington House, which had been Lee's home before the war, into a cemetery? Irvin McDowell Montgomery Meigs U. S. Grant Joseph Hooker