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Civil War Quiz
1. What was Ulysses Grant’s middle name?

2. From which West Point class did General James Longstreet (Lt. Gen, First Corps, Army of Northern Virginia) graduate?


3. True or False: The Battle of Cold Harbor was part of the Seven Days’ Battles?

4. What did the Confederates call the Battle of Shiloh?


5. What was it alleged that John Wilkes Booth shouted when he jumped to the stage after shooting Abraham Lincoln?


6.Who said, “It is a good thing war is so terrible; lest we grow too fond of it”?



7. Name the battle that took place in New Mexico in 1862.



8. What newspaper reporter arrived in Gettysburg just after his soldier-son died and wrote his report sitting next to his son’s grave?



9. True or False: A regiment is larger than a company?

10. Rose O’Neal Greenhow spent much of her time in which Union prison?



11. Elisha Hunt Rhoades, Joshua L. Chamberlain and Robert Gould Shaw all hailed from which area of the country?


12. True or False: Hot-air balloons were used for reconnaissance during the Civil War?

13. Jefferson Davis and James Ewell Brown (JEB) Stuart worked before the war to perfect which arm of the Federal forces?



14. Close friend of Abraham Lincoln, General Edward Baker died at which Civil War battle?



15. What did President Lincoln use his Constitutional powers to suspend at the start of the conflict?