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Civil War: "Ride with the Wind"

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Fun Trivia : Quizzes : U.S. Civil War
Civil War Ride with the Wind game quiz
"The gallant Cavaliers and their thundering Chargers that carried them into legend and beyond."

15 Points Per Correct Answer - No time limit  



1. After a famous ride from this town on it by Phil Sheridan during the battle of Cedar Creek, Rienzis' name was switched to this?
    Cedar
    Nicka Jack
    Virginia
    Winchester


2. What was the name of the mare, given to Marse Robert by J.E.B. Stuart, and that was second only to Traveller in his affection that was lost in the confusion in the evacuation of Richmond?
    Lucy Long
    Nellie Gray
    Grace Darling
    Almond Eye


3. The Wizard of the Saddle, who had 28 horses shot from under him and killed 29 men in combat, said "I was a horse ahead at the end of the war." Who who it?
    John Hunt Morgan
    George Armstrong Custer
    John Singleton Mosby
    Nathan Bedford Forrest


4. This man was in charge of Jackson's cavalry during the Shenandoah Valley Campaign?
    Wade Hampton
    Joseph Wheeler
    Turner Ashby
    Earl Van Dorn


5. Who was the Union cavalry commander that tried in vain to chase down his son-in-law J.E.B. Stuart as the Rebels rode all the way around McClellans' Army?
    Wesley Merritt
    Alfred Pleasonton
    Benjamin Henry Grierson
    Philip St. George Cooke


6. Judson "Kill-Cavalry" Kilpatrick, lived up to his nick-name at Gettysburg, by goading this young officer into an unadvised cavalry charge that cost him his life?
    Grumble Jones
    George Pickett
    Elon Farnsworth
    John Buford


7. What was the official name for Rush's Lancers, who went into battle at the begining of the war armed with Lances?
    7th Michigan Cavalry
    2nd Iowa Cavalry
    6th Pennsylvania Cavalry
    43rd Virginia Cavalry


8. The nickname, "Saviour of the Valley" was given to this hard-hitting General?
    Thomas Jackson
    Thomas Rosser
    Phillip Sheridan
    George Custer


9. "I did not come here with the intent to surrender my command!" With these words what cavalry leader led his troops out of Fort Donelson, instead of surrendering them to Grant?
    Jo Shelby
    Nathan Bedford Forrest
    Sterling Price
    Maxey Gregg


10. When Union General George Stoneman raided Macon, Georgia with the intention of setting the prisoners at Andersonville free, who stopped him and captured him at Sunshine Church?
    Ulric Dahlgren
    Alfred Iverson
    Wesley Merritt
    Edward McCook


11. This young general, "looked like a circus rider gone mad, he wore a huzzar jacket and black velvet trousers trimmed in gold, with long yellow curls flowing from under a broad brimmed hat."?
    Phil Sheridan
    Alfred Pleasonton
    J.E.B. Stuart
    George Custer


12. This young cavalryman won the Medal of Honor twice during the Civil war, the first person ever to win two, for action at Namozine Church and at Sayler's Creek. He was the younger brother of "Autie."?
    James Wilson
    Hugh Judson Kilpatrick
    Thomas Ward Custer
    George Custer


13. What Union cavalry leader was stopped by Nathan Bedford Forrest and could not help Sherman on his Meridian Campaign?
    Lewis Merrill
    John Buford
    Samuel Sturgis
    William Sooy Smith


14. This young cavalier thirsted to avenge the death of his brother Dick, a cavalry captain who in an early skirmish had been riddled with bullets and then bayoneted. Ever after he would "quit a meal to get a chance at a Yankee."?
    John Imboden
    Charles Winder
    Turner Ashby
    Joseph Wheeler


15. This general patched together a defense against John Buford and Judson Kilpatrick during a rearguard action during the retreat of the Confederate Army after Gettysburg?
    J. E. B. Stuart
    John Imboden
    Earl Van Dorn
    Sterling Price


16. Who took over the cavalry of the Army of Northern Virginia when Stuart was mortally wounded at Yellow Tavern?
    Wade Hampton
    Grumble Jones
    Fitzhugh Lee
    Thomas Rosser


17. "Sam" was the mount of "Uncle Billy" a firey redheaded general who didn't like to wear boots because they hurt his feet. Who was "Uncle Billy"?
    William Mahome
    William Tecumseh Sherman
    William Barksdale
    William Dorsey Pender


18. Who was the young cavalry man in Washington to patent a device to hold a sword to a belt that helped to capture John Brown?
    George Custer
    J.E.B. Stuart
    Phil Sheridan
    Thomas Jackson


19. What former Missouri Governor led a raid on Missouri in 1864?
    Alfred Terry
    Robert Toombs
    Sterling Price
    Joseph Wheeler


20. This Confederate "bushwacker" led 450 men into the free-soil bastion of Lawrence, Kansas and murdered more than 180 men and burned 185 buildings before moving back into Missouri?
    Nathan Bedford Forrest
    John Hunt Morgan
    William Clarke Quantrill
    Jo Shelby


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