Civil War - Who, What, Where? Trivia Quiz

Answer: William Tecumseh Sherman

Sherman, a colonel at the time, was the first superintendent of the Academy that later became L.S.U. He was recommended for the job by P.G.T. Beauregard, and Braxton Bragg, who had been his West Point classmates.

Answer: Camp Sumter

Camp Sumter was the offical name of Andersonville prison. By the time they closed it, Andersonville was the fifth largest city in the Confederacy. 13,171 prisoners died at Camp Sumter.

Answer: Providence Spring

As if God Himself had ordained it, one day the spring just appeared, saving many lives. The commander of Andersonville Henry Wirz was executed for war crimes at the end of the Civil War.

Answer: Dorothea Dix

Dragon Lady Dix was so strict that even nuns were turned away from helping the wounded, because they weren't 'plain enough'. Secretary of War Cameron appointed her superintendent of nurses.

Answer: Albert S. Johnston

While leading a charge at Shiloh into the Hornets' Nest, Johnston's uniform was shot and nicked in several places. He told a companion, "They didn't trip me up that time," while flapping his boot sole that had been shot through. Soon afterwards he reeled in the saddle and was asked, "General are you hurt?" "Yes," he said, "and I fear seriously." He later died of the wound that could have been treated by the use of a tourniquet in his pocket.

Answer: J.E.B. Stuart

Once Stuart escaped capture by jumping over a wide ditch. Stuart rode all the way around the Union Army twice, the first time being chased by his father-inlaw, Phillip St. George Cooke.

Answer: J.E.B. Stuart

The marker on Stuart's grave says: "He saved Richmond, but payed with his life." Lee said of Stuart, "I can barely think of him without crying." John Huff, the man who shot Stuart, started out as one of the best shots of the 1st United States Sharpshooters, but transfered to the cavalry. At Yellow Tavern Huff saw Stuart ride past, dismounted and shot him.

Answer: Forts Jackson and St. Phillip

On his way to capture New Orleans, Farragut succeeded in getting past these two forts. Thus the south lost its largest city, without putting up much of a fight at all.

Answer: Tecumseh

Farragut would get vertigo so badly that he had to be lashed to the rigging of his flagship, the Hartford.

Answer: Horace Greeley

After his capture near Irwinville, Georgia Davis was imprisoned at Fortress Monroe. After a $100,000 bond was posted the charges were eventually dropped.

Answer: Traveller

The best known horse of the Civil War started out as Jeff Davis and then was named Greenbrier; it carried "Marse Robert" to Appomattox and beyond.

Answer: Brandy Station

21,000 horsemen in the greatest cavalry battle ever on the North American continent, fought for this hill. It was a draw, with the South holding the field. But Stuart had been surprised by the North, and the Union had shown that its cavalry was up to the task of fighting the rebels on horseback at last.

Answer: Marshall House

Seeing a large Confederate flag flying from the roof of the Marshall House, Ellsworth went in and took it down and was shot dead by Jackson who in turn was killed.

Answer: John Bell Hood

Hood swore that he would not be as timid as Johnston had been and attacked Sherman. He would lose Atlanta and destroy his Army at Franklin and Nashville.

Answer: Joseph Johnston, and William Hardee

While the three generals were talking over the move to Kenesaw Mountain a Federal battery spotted them and opened up on them, hitting Polk in the chest and killing him instantly.