Gettysburg: Second Day Trivia Quiz

Answer: The Peach Orchard

The Third Corps, about 11,000 strong, was moved against orders to ground that Dan Sickles thought higher than the ground that he had been assigned.

Answer: Maj. Gen. David Birney

Gen. Birney's division was spread too thinly to hold the line. It was practically destroyed fighting in some of the most brutal areas of the Civil War.

Answer: Gen. J.H. Hobart Ward

Gen. Ward had eight regiments from his brigade and others, along with Captain James Smith's artillery battery. However, he faced Benning's Georgians, Robertson's Texans, and elements of Law's Alabamians. Outnumbered, he was forced to fall back with what little he had left, abandoning Smith's guns.

Answer: Brig. Gen. John Caldwell

Gen. Caldwell's division drove the Confederates out of the Wheatfield but at heavy cost. Two of Caldwell's brigade commanders were mortally wounded and he lost about 1,000 men. After his division retreated the Confederates reclaimed the Wheatfield.

Answer: Maj. Gen. George Sykes

Before Gettysburg Gen. Sykes was the most senior divisional commander in the Army of the Potomac. He had led the same division on the Peninsula, Second Bull Run, Antietem, Fredricksburg, and Chancellorsville. Prior to the Overland Campaign he was relieved of his command.

Answer: Pennsylvania Reserves Division

The Pennsylvania Reserves under Gen. Crawford succeeded in driving out Confederates under Hood and McLaws.

Answer: William Barksdale

Barksdale did indeed crush Sickles' salient. Barksdale would be mortally wounded about an hour later.

Answer: Lt. Col. Freeman McGilvery

McGilvery would command a massed battery that would wreak havoc on the Confederates during Pickett's Charge the next day.

Answer: Anderson's

Anderson's attack didn't succeed largely because two of his five brigades failed to move with the other three.

Answer: Early's

General Early attaked with two of his four brigades, Avery's and Hays's. Rodes was supposed to support Early but he failed to. Because of this, Early's Confederates failed to take the hill.

Answer: Brig. Gen. Adelbert Ames

General Ames, whose division was roughly handled the day before, had few troops to hold back the Confederates. His division gave way. Luckily for the Federals, there were three artillery brigades to back the defenders. The fighting swirled into the artillery lines. With the help of Second, Eleventh, and artillery soldiers, Ames drove the Confederates off the hill.

Answer: Col. Isaac Avery

Col. Avery was killed befored his men even got to the stone wall on Cemetery Hill. His last words were supposedly, "Tell my father I died facing the enemy."

Answer: Col. Samuel Carroll

Col. Carroll's brigade, under oreders from Hancock, rushed to bolster the Union troops and artillery holding Cemetery Hill. After the clash, Gen. Howard ordered Carroll to remain on the hill to bolster his shattered Eleventh Corps.

Answer: Johnson's

Gen. Johnson, even though he significantly outnumbered the Union brigade on Culp's Hill, failed to drive them off on the second and third days of the battle.

Answer: Brig. Gen. George S. Greene

Under orders from Generals Meade and Slocum, Brig. Gen. Alpheus Williams(in temporary command of the Twelfth Corps) moved all but one brigade to the left flank. When Williams came back to the right flank he found out that Gen. Greene had repulsed the better part of an entire Confederate division.