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Quiz about Civil War HodgePodge
Quiz about Civil War HodgePodge

Civil War Hodge-Podge Trivia Quiz


This, that and another thing or two, maybe three.

A multiple-choice quiz by ricbatcheller. Estimated time: 6 mins.
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Time
6 mins
Type
Multiple Choice
Quiz #
303,237
Updated
Dec 03 21
# Qns
25
Difficulty
Difficult
Avg Score
12 / 25
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Question 1 of 25
1. Which general was the highest ranking officer to resign his commission to join the Confederacy? Hint


Question 2 of 25
2. The Deerhound picked up survivors of which Confederate raider in the waters off Cherbourg, France? Hint


Question 3 of 25
3. What rebel general said such things as, "Hit'em on the end, get there first with the most, split up an attack both ways, keep up the scare. And if you want to have a heap of fun and kill some yankees, then follow me, boys"? Hint


Question 4 of 25
4. Who wrote to Edward Everett- "I am pleased to know that in your judgement the little I did say was not entirely a failure"? Hint


Question 5 of 25
5. Who said, "We are on the brink of destruction. It appears to me that the Almighty is against us, I can see no ray of hope"? Hint


Question 6 of 25
6. The "wheel pair" refers to what? Hint


Question 7 of 25
7. Who was the person stabbed by John Wilkes Booth in the president's box after Booth shot Lincoln in the back of the head at Ford's Theater? Hint


Question 8 of 25
8. Sometimes the sound of battle couldn't be heard by some men close by, but could be heard by others farther away, keeping the closer men from knowing that there was a battle going on. What was this called? Hint


Question 9 of 25
9. What was Professor Thaddeus S. C. Lowes' "Intrepid"? Hint


Question 10 of 25
10. Mathew, Mark, Luke, and John in Jackson's Corps were all what ? Hint


Question 11 of 25
11. What was the name of the last rebel raider to strike its colors? Hint


Question 12 of 25
12. What charge did Grant say was the only one that he ever regretted making? Hint


Question 13 of 25
13. Who threw the shad bake that generals, George Pickett and Fitzhugh Lee were attending when Five Forks was attacked on April Fools' Day, 1865? Hint


Question 14 of 25
14. With a crew of 320, what was "The Floating Barnroof"? Hint


Question 15 of 25
15. "Sic semper tyrannis!" screamed Booth, as he lept from the President's box after shooting Lincoln. Which state has this motto on the state flag? Hint


Question 16 of 25
16. What was, or should I say, is the name of the tune that the civil war soldiers called "Butterfield's Lullabye"? Hint


Question 17 of 25
17. Who was the Lion of Anacostia who once said, "I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong"? Hint


Question 18 of 25
18. What "Marble Man" had a father called "Light Horse Harry"? Hint


Question 19 of 25
19. What radical was called the "Meteor of the Civil War"? Hint


Question 20 of 25
20. Who was known as the "Father of Secession"? Hint


Question 21 of 25
21. "May God have mercy on General Lee, because I will have none." Whichover zealous "Fighting General" said this? Hint


Question 22 of 25
22. Robert Gould Shaw, was killed at the front leading what unit toward Fort Wagner? Hint


Question 23 of 25
23. At what National Cemetery are the most Union Soldiers from the Civil War buried? Hint


Question 24 of 25
24. After being trapped in an out building for most of the battle of Gettysburg, what general was taunted with remarks that the out building where he hid out at was his headquarters? Hint


Question 25 of 25
25. What state had the most men die during the Civil War? Hint



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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts
1. Which general was the highest ranking officer to resign his commission to join the Confederacy?

Answer: Joseph E. Johnston

Johnston was upset from the very beginning that he did not get to keep his place in the seniority line of generals. And this hurt his relationship with Davis. It is thought to be one of the reasons Davis replaced him later at Atlanta, with Hood. Moreover, Johnston was giving up much territory.
2. The Deerhound picked up survivors of which Confederate raider in the waters off Cherbourg, France?

Answer: Alabama

One of the people that survived the sinking was Commander Raphael Semmes, of which the commander of the Kearsarge thought it to be most unfortunate that Semmes should escape. Semmes later became a general in the Confederate Army.
3. What rebel general said such things as, "Hit'em on the end, get there first with the most, split up an attack both ways, keep up the scare. And if you want to have a heap of fun and kill some yankees, then follow me, boys"?

Answer: Nathan Bedford Forrest

Some say what Forrest said was "You got to get there firstest with the mostest and be the meanest to live the longest. Keep up the sceer!"
4. Who wrote to Edward Everett- "I am pleased to know that in your judgement the little I did say was not entirely a failure"?

Answer: Abraham Lincoln

Everett was much admired by Lincoln for his skills as an orator. Lincoln said that he never had received an opinion that he prized more. Everett had spoken for about two hours on that November 19th 1863, Lincoln a little more than two minutes.
5. Who said, "We are on the brink of destruction. It appears to me that the Almighty is against us, I can see no ray of hope"?

Answer: Abraham Lincoln

Shortly after the defeat at Fredericksburg the President said this to one of his young aides. He also said "If there is a worse place then hell, then I am in it."
6. The "wheel pair" refers to what?

Answer: Two horses in a team closest to the cannon

One rider was needed for each pair of horses, he would ride on the left-hand horse, holding its reins and the reins of the off horse. You had to have 110 horses to pull a six gun battery.
7. Who was the person stabbed by John Wilkes Booth in the president's box after Booth shot Lincoln in the back of the head at Ford's Theater?

Answer: Major Henry Rathbone

Major Rathbone later married his date of that fateful evening, Miss Harris, and in later years he shot her dead and was put in an asylum for the rest of his life.
8. Sometimes the sound of battle couldn't be heard by some men close by, but could be heard by others farther away, keeping the closer men from knowing that there was a battle going on. What was this called?

Answer: Acoustic Shadow

There were several cases that a battle was going on just a short distance away but no one close to it could hear it, but people farther away could hear it. The battle of Five Forks was among them.
9. What was Professor Thaddeus S. C. Lowes' "Intrepid"?

Answer: Balloon

Lowe is also credited with designing the first "aircraft carrier", the coal barge U.S.S. George Washington Parke Custis, which he used for several ascents. The Confederate efforts to shoot down the balloons were the first instances of anti-aircraft fire.
10. Mathew, Mark, Luke, and John in Jackson's Corps were all what ?

Answer: Cannons

When Jackson was told of the names that had been given to the guns he said,"Very well, I hope they can preach the gospel to the Yankees, with every chance they get."
11. What was the name of the last rebel raider to strike its colors?

Answer: CSS Shenandoah

Captain James Waddell surrendered his ship to British officials in the waters off of Liverpool, England on November 6, 1865, six months after the Civil War ended.
12. What charge did Grant say was the only one that he ever regretted making?

Answer: Cold Harbor

In the first fifteen minutes of the charge, 7,000 men were shot down. The night before the charge some of the men who saw the ground over which the charge was to be made in the morning, pinned bits of paper to the backs of their coats so that they could be identified and their families informed of their fate.
13. Who threw the shad bake that generals, George Pickett and Fitzhugh Lee were attending when Five Forks was attacked on April Fools' Day, 1865?

Answer: Thomas Rosser

Called the "Waterloo of the Confederacy" the generals did not know the battle was going on because of an "acoustic shadow" until they arrived too late to be of any use.
14. With a crew of 320, what was "The Floating Barnroof"?

Answer: CSS Virginia

At almost 100 yards long, the Rebels had put iron over the remnants of the USS Merrimack, which the Union had tried to scuttle when the Norfolk navy yard was seized. They armed it with 10 guns.
15. "Sic semper tyrannis!" screamed Booth, as he lept from the President's box after shooting Lincoln. Which state has this motto on the state flag?

Answer: Virginia

Thus always to tyrants is the state motto of Virginia. Others thought that they heard him say, "The south is avenged!"
16. What was, or should I say, is the name of the tune that the civil war soldiers called "Butterfield's Lullabye"?

Answer: Taps

Butterfield, wrote this while he was on the peninsula with McClellan, at Harrison's Landing waiting for the "Virginia Creeper". Earlier versions of a bugle call meant for the same troop movements were called "Tattoo".
17. Who was the Lion of Anacostia who once said, "I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong"?

Answer: Frederick Douglass

In 1872 Douglass ran for vice-president on the Equal Rights ticket with Victoria Woodhull making him the first African-American to run for vice-president, and her the first woman to run for president. Douglass also published the "North Star", an abolitionist weekly.
18. What "Marble Man" had a father called "Light Horse Harry"?

Answer: Robert E. Lee

"Light Horse Harry Lee" was a true hero in the war for the birth of our nation against Britain, but alas he was not such a good father as he squandered two wives' fortunes and could not stay faithful. Robert would have to care for his sickly step-mother later on in life after his father was gone.
19. What radical was called the "Meteor of the Civil War"?

Answer: John Brown

Frederick Douglass said, "I may be put in jail for my beliefs, but old John Brown will die for his." Sure enough, Brown was captured during his failed attempt to take over Harper's Ferry and was hanged.
20. Who was known as the "Father of Secession"?

Answer: John C. Calhoun

Even though he died more then a decade before the war started he was still very highly thought of in the South. Along with Daniel Webster and Henry Clay they were called "the immortal three".
21. "May God have mercy on General Lee, because I will have none." Whichover zealous "Fighting General" said this?

Answer: Joseph Hooker

Of this Lincoln said, "The hen is the wisest of all in the barnyard, for she does not cackle until the egg is laid."
22. Robert Gould Shaw, was killed at the front leading what unit toward Fort Wagner?

Answer: 54th Massachusetts

When the rebels buried the men of the 54th Massachusetts in a big ditch, they threw the body of Colonel Shaw, a white officer in with them. Shaw's father would later say, that was fine, he could think of no better place for his son's body to be than with his men.
23. At what National Cemetery are the most Union Soldiers from the Civil War buried?

Answer: Vicksburg

There is a total of around 17,000 Unionists laid to rest on the banks of the old Mississippi at Vicksburg.
24. After being trapped in an out building for most of the battle of Gettysburg, what general was taunted with remarks that the out building where he hid out at was his headquarters?

Answer: Alexander Schimmelfennig

Being wounded in the barnyard as it were, the proud Prussian would later falter from his wounds and die of TB.
25. What state had the most men die during the Civil War?

Answer: New York

Why do you think they called them the New York Yankees? Of the 448,850 men who fought from New York 46,534 died in the war, the most from one state on either side. The state that provided the most men for the South was Virginia with 155,000, of whom 14,894 died. North Carolina had the most men die for the "Lost Cause" - 40,275 died out of 127,000.
Source: Author ricbatcheller

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