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MILITARY TRIVIA
THE CIVIL WAR
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1. What Union General was
obese, suffered from gout and
therefore, was unable to ride
a horse for any length
of time?

2. How many members of an Ohio
family, the McCook's served
during the war?

3. One Union General is buried
at Annapolis. Who is he?

4. A U.S. Gen killed Oct 8,
1862 at Perryville and his
brother, a CS Gen killed May
30, 1864 at Bethesda Church
were supposedly buried by
their father in a common
grave. The tombstone reads:
"Here lie my two sons. Only
God knows which was right" Who
were they?

5. Years before the war, Jesse
Grant, father of U.S. Grant,
worked for Owen Brown. Who was
Owen Brown?

6. Who once said, "He looks so
cold and quiet and grand."
Name the speaker and
the subject.

7. Name 5 women who were spies
during the Civil War.

8. They say I was the best war
governor during the Civil War.
I promptly answered Lincoln's
call for volunteers - sending
150,000 men from Indiana. I
didn't need to draft my
state's troops - they mainly
volunteered.  But I didn't
like excessive military
arrests and I opposed freeing
Southern slaves until the
Emancipation Proclamation.
Yet, I led the movement to
pass the 14th Amendment for
black suffrage. Who am I?


9. Where was the first Federal
Battlefield victory?

10. One state had 39 Regiments
22 Union and 17 Confederate at
the battle of Vicksburg. What
state was it?

11. Seven former U.S.
Presidents served in the Civil
War. Who were they?

12. What state was James
Longstreet, CSA born in?

13. At the battle of First
Bull Run, Confederate General
Joseph E, Johnston allowed
Gen. P. G. T. Beauregard to be
in command, even though
Johnston outranked him. Why?


14. Southerners had a
distorted view of
President-elect Lincoln in
1860, fearing him to be a
figurehead, controlled by
Seward. Seward was said to be
a member of the radical
antislavery wing of his party.
Further, Vice President-elect
Hannibal Hamlin was rumored to
be a ?

15. Grant's ancestry begins in
New England around the year
1630. Generations of Grants
were mostly?

16. Name the only Civil War
Confederate soldier to be
pictured on Confederate
currency?

17. General Robert E. Lee's
ancestry can be traced back
to where?

18. Phoebe Yates Levy Pember
was a Confederate Hospital
matron placed in charge of
housekeeping and patient diet
at Chimborazo Hospital in
Richmond. This hospital would
administer to nearly 76,000
wounded Confederates. What was
the oddity about Pember?

19. Who, among all the Union
Generals first gave orders to
raid civilian supplies, punish
citizens for guerrilla attacks
and had all male noncombatants
arrested?

20. What famous ridge was Gen.
Longstreet ordered to attack
at Gettysburg in which
he delayed?


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