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Index at bottom of the page. 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? |