Civil War - Who, What, Where?

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1. Name the officer in charge of the Louisiana State Military Academy who resigned and wrote a letter to his senator brother John, saying: "You politicians have made a big mess of things, I am going home and will have no more of the whole affair"? William Tecumseh Sherman William Hardee Robert E. Lee Thomas Jackson

2. What Camp did the Sweetwater Branch creek run through? Camp Cedar Camp Sumter Camp Rapids Camp Sweetwater

3. What was the name of the spring that just sprouted up out of the ground one day at Andersonville prison? Clear Spring Providence Spring Bed Spring Hot Spring

4. What nurse was known as the 'dragon lady'? Dorothea Dix Mary Walker Clara Barton Louisa Mae Alcott

5. What general, waving a tin cup in his hand, was shot while riding a horse named Fire Eater, and later died? Albert S. Johnston Joeseph Johnston Thomas Jackson William Jones

6. High Fly was the mount ridden by a General with a gray-red lined cape and an Ostrich plume in his hat. Who was this last cavalier? John Hunt Morgan John Singleton Mosby Turner Ashby J.E.B. Stuart

7. Yellow Tavern was the last battle for which of these rebel generals? John Hunt Morgan J.E.B. Stuart Turner Ashby Earl Van Dorn

8. What were the names of the Forts at the mouth of the Mississippi that Farragut had to get past on his way to New Orleans? Forts Rucker and Madison Forts Stonewall and Jackson Forts Jackson and St. Phillip Forts St. Phillip and Darling

9. "Damn the torpedoes!" Farragut screamed, "full speed ahead!" after this ship ran into one entering Mobile Bay and sank? Tecumseh Hartford Sherman Alabama

10. Who, along with Gerrit Smith and Cornelius Vanderbilt, posted a bond for Jefferson Davis to get him out of jail after his capture at the end of the war? Judah P. Benjamin Horace Greely Andrew Johnson Andrew Stevens

11. Jeff Davis and Greenbrier were names of this warhorse before its "Master Gambling Bobby" changed it to this? Sam Reinzi Baldy Traveller

12. Fleetwood Hill was high ground overlooking what battlefield? Mechanicsville Brandy Station Ball's Bluff Chickasaw Bayou

13. In what second-class hotel in Alexandria was E. Elmer Ellsworth shot by James Jackson? Marshall House Willard Hotel Peterson House McClean House

14. Peachtree Creek, was his first battle just days after this general took over command of the Army of Tennessee from Joseph E. Johnston. Richard Ewell Braxton Bragg John Bell Hood George Pickett

15. Which two generals were talking to Leonidas Polk when he was shot and killed at Pine Mountain,Georgia by Union cannon fire? William Mahome and Albert Johnston Thomas Jackson and Robert E. Lee Earl Van Dorn and James Longstreet Joseph Johnston, and William Hardee