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1. Confederate General Albert Sidney Johnston was mortally wounded and died at the Battle of Shiloh in April 1862. What was the name of the horse he was riding when he recieved his fatal wound.
2. Confederate commander of the Army of Nothern Virginia, Gen. Robert E. Lee graduated from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point in 1829. Which Confederate leader graduated just one year ahead of Lee and was his senior commander?
3. Which Union state was the farthest north to be attacked by Confederate forces?
4. Union Admiral David Farragut and Union naval Captain David Dixon Porter shared what relationship?
5. Union General William T. Sherman was living in Louisiana and enjoyed it very much before the outbreak of the Civil War.
6. Which Confederate officer accidentally rode directly into Union lines and was killed in January 1862?
7. Confederate general James Longstreet and Union General Ulysses S. Grant were distant blood relatives.
8. Which Civil War officer was serving as Commandant of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point at the outbreak of the Civil War?
9. Colonel Robert Gould Shaw was the commander killed while attacking Battery Wagner with his colored regiment, the 54th Massachusetts in July 1863. His sister married what Union general after Shaw's death?
10. The Confederate attack on the Union line of defense at the Battle of Gettysburg, known commonly as "Pickett's Charge", was the longest distance for an infantry attack (approximatley one mile) across open ground to be made during the Civil War.
11. Which Union officer, born in Georgia, chose Confederate commander Gen. Robert E. Lee's home in Arlington, Virginia to become a cemetary for Union dead killed during the Civil War in 1864?
12. Confederate female spy Belle Boyd was how old when she began passing information to Confederate officers?
13. Confederate commander Gen. Robert E. Lee's famous "Lost Orders" was associated with what Civil War battle?
14. Fraley's Field, Hell's Hollow, and the Hornet's Nest are all landmarks on what Civil War battlefield?
15. A Confederate general commented that the Battle of Malvern Hill in July 1862, "Was not war, it was ____"
16. Which battle was the largest fought west of the Mississippi River during the Civil War?
17. In December 1862, Union troops recently defeated at the Battle of Fredericksburg attempted what action that turn into a debacle?
18. Union General Lew Wallace's 1880's novel, "Ben-Hur" became the best selling novel in U.S. history, overtaking the sales of Harriet Beecher Stowe's "Uncle Tom's Cabin".
19. What were "Quaker Guns" used for in the Civil War?
20. What illness was President Abraham Lincoln suffering the early effects of in November 1863 when he visited Gettysburg, Pennsylvania to help dedicate the National Cemetary there?
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