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1
Who was the Civil War governor of Louisiana?
Thomas O. Moore
2
Where did he go after the war?
Mexico and Cuba
3
What was the Lady Bell?
An 8 ton Dahlgren gun
4
Where was it located?
Fort Donelson
5
Who was the Andersonville P.O.W. who became the reform mayor of Detroit in l890?
Hazen S. Pingree
6
What is a sap?
A zigzag trench connecting a series of parallels used to advance on an enemy fortification
7
Who was the North Carolinian known as the “Boy Colonel of the Confederacy?”
Henry K. Burgwyn, Jr.
8
What happened to him?
He was killed on the first day of the Battle of Gettysburg
9
What regiment was commanded by Col. Wallace B. Colbert?
40th Mississippi
10
Where did he die?
Battle of Bentonville, North Carolina
11
What Kentuckian commanded an Illinois regiment and became the first governor of Colorado?
John L. Routt
12
What was the nickname of the brigade commanded by General Harry T. Hays?
Louisiana Tigers
13
What was the name of the horse ridden by Capt. Andrew Hickenlooper, whose performance made him famous at Shiloh?
Gray Eagle
14
By what common name is the Billinghurst-Requa Gun generally known?
Covered Bridge Gun
15
What Union Major General, a non West-Pointer, faced a court of inquiry after the federal right was shattered at Chickamauga?
James S. Negley
16
What Confederate brigade commander suffered a near-fatal shot through the lung at the Battle of Hatcher’s Run?
Gilbert Moxley Sorrel
17
What Confederate naval captain became a brigadier general in order to take command of the outer defenses of Mobile Bay?
Richard L. Page
18
What was boiled rye?
A Southern substitute for coffee
19
What besieged stronghold was know as “Prairie Dog Town”?
Vicksburg
20
Who was nicknamed "Grey Eagle"?
Robert Milroy
21
Whattwo people were nicknamed "The Gallant"?
John Bell Hood and John Pelham
22
Who was nicknamed "The Hero of Appomattox"?
John B. Gordon
23
Who was nicknamed "Five Cent"?
John Pope
24
Who was nicknamed "Bull Run”?
William Howard Russell
25
What officer was the last survivor of Sherman’s Civil War staff?
Captain John Taylor
26
What future railroad president and U.S. Senator won the Medal of Honor in the l864 Shenandoah Valley Campaign?
Henry DuPont
27
Who said, “My religious belief teaches me to feel as safe in battle as in bed?”
Thomas J. Jackson
28
What state issued its troops brass buttons adorned with a palmetto tree?
South Carolina
29
What distinction is held by Private Daniel Hough, 1st U.S. Artillery?
He was the first soldier killed in the war.
30
What Brevet General and future U.S. Senator won the Medal of Honor for gallantry at the Battle of Chancellorsville?
William J. Sewell
31
Who said "The whole army is burning with an insatiable desire to wreak violence on South Carolina. I almost tremble for her fate"?
William T. Sherman
32
For what crime was Robert Cobb Kennedy executed during the war?
Trying to burn New York
33
Who represented the Confederate War Department in England?
Caleb Huse
34
What Confederate General had a son and namesake who attained the rank of Lt. General during World War II?
Simon Boliver Buckner
35
Who was General Hindman's Chief of Staff that was cited for "Conspicuous courage" at Missionary Ridge?
Colonel Charles W. Adams
36
Who was his famous granddaughter?
Helen Keller
37
To a Federal soldier, what were "Forty dead men?"
The allotment of forty cartridges issued before battle
38
What unusual fate befell the crew of the U.S.S. Rattler in l863?
Thecaptain and most of the crew were captured by Confederate cavalry while attending church in Rodney, Mississippi
39
Who was the Episcopal priest that gave Biblical names to his cannon?
William N. Pendleton
40
What unusual wound was suffered by General James A. Smith during the defense of Tunnel Hill?
He was shot through both thighs
41
What former Confederate joined the Republican Party, supported Grant for President,
and was appointed Consul to Hong Kong by Hayes?
John S. Mosby
42
Of what General was it said, “He’s hell on retreat!”?
Braxton Bragg
43
As a secret negotiator for the Confederate government, Congressman Duncan Kenner offered what concession
to England and France in return for recognition?
Emancipation of Slaves
44
From what elected office was James G. Berdet required to resign as a condition of his release from Fort Delaware?
Mayor of Washington, D.C.
45
Which Federal infantry regiment to see action at Gettysburg?
56th Pensylvania
46
What was the name of their commander?"
Brvt. Gen. J. William Hofmann
47
Which Union general won the Medal of Honor at Franklin while fighting along side a previous Medal of Honor winner?
David S. Stanley
48
Who was the other Medal of Honor winner?
Arthur MacArthur
49
Which Confederate officer was called, "the most important military figure in the history of Georgia,
by the Dictionary of American Biography?
John B. Gordon
50
Who commanded the last successful action of Lee's army?
Clement A. Evans
51
What future Florida orange grower commanded "One of the greatest cavalry victories of the war?"
Alfred Iverson
52
Who did he defeat?
George Stoneman
53
Where did the action take place?
Near Macon, Georgia
54
What government office did Gen. Elkanah Greer occupy in the Trans-Mississippi?
Conscription Bureau
55
Which Confederate Lt. Colonel earned immediate promotion to Colonel from the date of the action by "Heroic conduct"
while in command of the 1st Arkansas?
David H. Reynolds
56
Which member of the Kentucky State Legislature commanded a Union regiment at the Battle of Richmond, Kentucky?
Theophilus Garrard
57
Future Rear Adm. William T. Sampson was nearly killed by the sinking of what ship?
U.S.S. Patapsco
58
What future naval disaster also involved.Sampson?
Sampson chaired the Board of Inquiry into the sinking of the U.S.S. Maine
59
What prominent secessionist spokesman headed the Presbyterian Church in the Confederate States of America?
Reverend Benjamin Palmer
60
How did he die?
In 1902 he was run over by a street car in New Orleans
61
Which Georgia congressman resigned his seat and went home to organize the 7th Georgia Infantry
Lucius J. Gartrell
62
Where was General William S. Walker captured?
He was caputured at Bermuda Hundred
63
How was General William S. Walker captured?
He mistakenly rode into Federal lines
64
Which Confederate graduate of West Point compiled the highest scholastic record in the first 100 years of the Academy?
William H.C. Whiting
65
Who finally surpassed it in the 20th century?
Douglas McArthur
66
Who was the 4th and final Attorney General of the Confederate States of American?
George Davis
67
What spy drowned while trying to avoid capture?
Rose O'Neal Greenhow
68
Who was known as "Father Neptune"?
Gideon Welles
69
What two Confederate officers were known as "Rock"?
Henry L. Benning and Clement H. Stevens
70
Who was known as "Thunderbolt of the Army of the Potomac"?
Winfield Scott Hancock
71
Who was known as "Tom Fool"?
Thomas J. Jackson
72
Who was known as "Old Skedad"?
Sterling Price
73
What Confederate officer's poor performance in the Peninsula Campaign led to his transfer to the Trans-Mississippi
Department as Inspector of Artillery and Ordnance?
Benjamin Huger
74
What Medal of Honor winner had a father who was appointed to the Supreme Court during the Civil war?
Brigadier General Wager Swain
75
In what action did he win the Medal of Honor?
The Battle of Corinth
76
What famous work was partly inspired by the "hundred circling camps" of volunteers that surrounded Washington?
The Battle Hymn of the Republic
77
Who wrote it?
Julia Ward Howe
78
What Union general was known for always wearing clean shirts in battle?
Winfield Scott Hancock
79
What is a "counterscarp?"
The exterior slope of a ditch dug to protect a parapet
80
What inventor of an artillery gun voluntarily limited the profits he made?
Robert Parrott
81
At what battle site would you find the Devil's Pulpit?
Lookout Mountain
82
Who said, "Put not your trust in princes and rest not your hopes on foreign nations. This war is ours, we must fight it out ourselves?"
Jefferson Davis
83
To what did he refer?
The failure of the Confederacy to gain diplomatic recognition in Europe
84
Whom did McClellan characterize as, "a teller of low stories?"
Abraham Lincoln
85
To a soldier, what was, "going down the line?"
Visiting a bordello
86
What phrase was used by Union troops to describe Gen. Meade's fiery temper?
"The Great Peppering"
87
What battlefield was described by a veteran as follows:
"The dead covered more than five acres of ground about as thickly as they could be laid?"
Cold Harbor, l864
88
What popular song was inspired by the heroism of General John Corse and his men near the town of Allatoona, Georgia?
"Hold The Fort"
89
What contribution to the war effort was made by Senator Charles James of Rhode Island?
He invented the James Projectile
90
What happened to James?
He was killed during a demonstration of his invention
91
Who were the "Parlor Pets"?
John C. Fremont and his Guard whose special treatment inspired the envy of others
92
Which U.S. Senator chaired the Committee on the Conduct of the War?
Benjamin Wade
93
Which Indianapolis tinsmith commanded the 13th Indiana in the Valley campaign of l862?
Robert S. Foster
94
What Union general had a grandfather who was a member of Washington's cabinet?
Schuyler Hamilton
95
This same general served on the staff of his brother-in-law. Who was his commander?
Henry W. Halleck
96
Which Confederate general owned Belle Meade Plantation, known as one of the best stables in America?
William H. Jackson
97
Who was the Union general whose pants were the focus of a battle at Monroe's Crossing, South Carolina?
H. Judson Kilpatrick
98
How was Union General Frank Wheaton connected to the Confederacy?
His Father-in-law was General Samuel Cooper
99
What was the nickname of the 39th New York?
Garibaldi Guard
100
What happened to their commander and his second in command?
Both were courtmartialed for misuse of government property
