Civil War : Volume I Trivia Quiz

Answer: February 18, 1865

During the evacuation, an explosion at the Northeastern railroad station killed around 250 civilians and ignited the city.

Answer: 13 Dollars

Answer: Three

Amendment Thirteen, which states: "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction."
Amendment Fourteen, which states: "Section 1. All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.

Section 2. Representatives shall be apportioned among the several States according to their respective numbers, counting the whole number of persons in each State, excluding Indians not taxed. But when the right to vote at any election for the choice of electors for President and Vice President of the United States, Representatives in Congress, the Executive and Judicial officers of a State, or the members of the Legislature thereof, is denied to any of the male inhabitants of such State, being twenty-one years of age,(See Note 15) and citizens of the United States, or in any way abridged, except for participation in rebellion, or other crime, the basis of representation therein shall be reduced in the proportion which the number of such male citizens shall bear to the whole number of male citizens twenty-one years of age in such State.

Section 3. No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability.

Section 4. The validity of the public debt of the United States, authorized by law, including debts incurred for payment of pensions and bounties for services in suppressing insurrection or rebellion, shall not be questioned. But neither the United States nor any State shall assume or pay any debt or obligation incurred in aid of insurrection or rebellion against the United States, or any claim for the loss or emancipation of any slave; but all such debts, obligations and claims shall be held illegal and void."

And Amendment Fifteen, which states: "The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude."

Answer: 38%

Answer: New Orleans

There were 168,000 residents in New Orleans in 1860. A lot of the Southern slaves were brought through the port of New Orleans. During the ten years leading to war, New Orleans, or the Crescent City as it was called, was a center of commerce, culture, architecture and education.

However, the city was called "The Most Unhealthy City in the World", due to the thousands of lives claimed each year by yellow fever and typhoid.

Answer: 12,000

Answer: 5

1. Lewis Addison Armistead - Commander of a Brigade in Pickett's division. On the third day of battle, he led his men on an assault of Federal artillery, which they overtook. He fell mortally wounded with his hand on a captured cannon. As the Confederates fell back he was taken and died in a Federal Field Hospital.
2. William Barksdale - Killed July 3, 1863 leading a brigade of Mississippians. Mortally wounded on the field, he died in a Federal Hospital.
3. Richard Brooke Garnett - Died in battle on July 3, 1863 leading a brigade of Virginians in the front ranks of Pickett's assault. Some 20 yards from the Union lines, he disappeared in the the clouds of flame and smoke. Moments later his riderless horse came galloping towards the rear, streaming blood. The location of his remains are unknown as a Union soldier probably removed his insignia, sword and sidearms, causing his body to be interred in a mass burial trench. His sword was found years later in a Baltimore pawn shop.
4. William Dorsey Pender - Died July 18, 1863. Wounded on July 4, 1863 while ordering his lines to assault Cemetary Ridge. Lived long enough to die during the retreat, hours after his leg was amputated.
5. Paul Jones Semmes. Mortally wounded on the field, he died of his wounds on July 9, 1863 in West Virginia.

Answer: Nathan Bedford Forrest

"The Wizard of the Saddle" was Nathan Bedford Forrest, a brilliant tactician, considered by most to be a military genius. He earned the respect of both his allies and the enemy alike. Union generals feared the man who enlisted in 1861 as a private. He then started a mounted battalion with his own funds, and was given the rank of Lieutenant Colonel.

He fought at the battle of Shiloh, was severely wounded during the retreat, and was promoted to the rank of General in 1862. From Private to General in one year.

Answer: Tennessee

Tennessee was readmitted on July 24, 1866.

Answer: Quaker Guns

Made of logs, these were used to fool observers into thinking the strength of the Confederate artillery was greater than it actually was.