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1. Which general was the highest ranking officer to resign his commission to join the Confederacy?
2. The Deerhound picked up survivors of which Confederate raider in the waters off Cherbourg, France?
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"?
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"?
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"?
6. The "wheel pair" refers to what?
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?
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?
9. What was Professor Thaddeus S. C. Lowes' "Intrepid"?
10. Mathew, Mark, Luke, and John in Jackson's Corps were all what ?
11. What was the name of the last rebel raider to strike its colors?
12. What charge did Grant say was the only one that he ever regretted making?
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?
14. With a crew of 320, what was "The Floating Barnroof"?
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?
16. What was, or should I say, is the name of the tune that the civil war soldiers called "Butterfield's Lullabye"?
17. Who was the Lion of Anacostia who once said, "I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong"?
18. What "Marble Man" had a father called "Light Horse Harry"?
19. What radical was called the "Meteor of the Civil War"?
20. Who was known as the "Father of Secession"?
21. "May God have mercy on General Lee, because I will have none." Whichover zealous "Fighting General" said this?
22. Robert Gould Shaw, was killed at the front leading what unit toward Fort Wagner?
23. At what National Cemetery are the most Union Soldiers from the Civil War buried?
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?
25. What state had the most men die during the Civil War?
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