SOLARTOYS
MILITARY TRIVIA
THE CIVIL WAR
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1. What order did Union Maj.
Gen. Winfield Scott Hancock
give at Fredericksburg which
was believed to save
many lives?

2. What is "green-apple
quickstep"?

3. What Confederate general,
believed by many to be the
greatest strategist in the
Confederacy, died as a result
of pneumonia after standing
bareheaded in the rain for the
funeral procession of Gen. Wm.
T. Sherman, whom he had
fiercely opposed in
bloody battles?

4. How did most youths slip
into the military service on
both sides by being so young?


5. What was Cavalry General
Ben Grierson's profession?


6. I was naturalized in the
U.S. and adopted Arkansas as
my home state. Being from
Ireland, I was proud my father
was a physician and I wanted
to be like him but I failed
the exams. I did study law in
the U.S. and became partners
in a drug store. When the war
started, I enlisted and
eventually went all the way
to brigadier general but I was
killed in battle at Franklin,
Tennessee. Some called me the
"Stonewall of the West."
Who am I?

7. What was so unique about
the 39th New York Garibaldi
Guard?

8. What general captured three
different armies?

9. I was a famous Episcopal
Bishop but traded my robes in
for the war. I attended
Theological Seminary, West
Point, was a friend of Jeff
Davis and laid the cornerstone
for the famous college in the
South - Sewanee. My life was
cut short while inspecting
troops atop Pine Mountain when
an artillery shell struck our
position. Sherman regretted
it. Who am I?

10. During the Siege of
Vicksburg, there were 39
regiments from Missouri. How
many were Union and how many
were Confederate?

11. Who was the press official
referring to when he told a
general he was "In very great
danger of being President of
the United States?

12. What Union General was
nicknamed "Curly", "Fanny" and
"Autie"?

13. Who was troubled with the
governments harsh treatment of
Indians before and after the
American Civil War?

14. Who was the last C.S.A.
general to die?

15. How did CSA lieutenant
general Richard Taylor manage
to sleep while traveling
cross country?

16. Who was the C.S.A. highest
ranking general?

17. Who fired the shot which
mortally wounded CS Gen
JEB Stuart?

18. Of the nations of the
world, who shunned the
Confederacy more due to their
freedom loving and wanted no
part of slavery?

19. What distinction did the
69th North Carolina
(C.S.A.) have?

20. What was a "Jonah"?


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