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All About The Civil War

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Introduction:
"So you think you know the Civil War? Try this quiz and find out."


1. What was the first major land battle of the Civil War?
    Shiloh
    First Manassas
    Sharpsburg
    Cedar Creek


2. How many days did the Battle of Gettysburg last?
    one
    three
    two
    five


3. In what battle did a U.S. senator die?
    Antietam
    Ball's Bluff
    Gettysburg
    Big Bethel


4. In which battle did a U.S. general hide out in a pig sty?
    Sharpsburg
    Gettysburg
    Leesburg
    Shiloh


5. Which CSA general did General Grant fear the most?
    Nathan Bedford Forrest
    Stonewall Jackson
    J.E.B. Stuart
    Robert E Lee


6. Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest enlisted as a private.
    True
    False


7. Who was the only U.S. president to serve the Confederacy?
    Tyler
    Jackson
    Johnson
    Fillmore


8. Franklin Buchanan, first Superintendent of the US Naval Academy, became commander which ship?
    Answer: (the South's first ironclad and the former USS Merrimac.)


9. What was Jefferson Davis' middle name?
    Finis
    Figaro
    Frederick
    Finnelly


10. What did the initials in General J.E.B. Stuart' name stand for?
    James Ewell Brown
    Josephus Elias Bocephus
    John Edgar Brown
    John Edward Bartholemew


11. Grant's wife, Julia Dent, had a cousin who was a CSA general. Which of the following was he?
    James Longstreet
    Braxton Bragg
    Joseph Johnston
    Robert E. Lee


12. Which American Indian tribe was the first to side with the Confederacy?
    Apache
    Mohawk
    Choctaw
    Cherokee


13. Which general was the first to die?
    Stonewall Jackson
    John Adams
    John C. Carter
    Robert Selden Garnett


14. Who commanded Andersonville?
    Otho F. Strahl
    Patrick Cleburne
    Henry Wirz
    States Rights Gist


15. What was important about the battle at Island Mount, Missouri on October 19, 1862?
    the first major Union victory
    no one died
    Grant's first victory
    first African-American troops to fight


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