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1. The man commonly given credit for pulling the first lanyard that fired the opening cannon shot of the Civil War ended his life pulling the trigger of a musket with its business end in his mouth. Who was this man and what state was he from?
2. Henry Wirz, executed for war crimes, was originally from Germany.
3. What can you buy for a small fortune in select New Orleans antique shops having to do with Union MG Benjamin F. Butler, also known as "Spoons" Butler?
4. During the Civil War several weapons were tested and not put to work until late in the war or, in the case of the Gatling gun, were never used due to the inflexibility of the War Department to consider new-fangled toys. The CSA did put an odd cannon to work: a double sided Napoleon which fired two cannon balls connected by a chain. Where is the only remaining example of this weapon today?
5. The Irish Brigade, both North and South, had several flamboyant characters as their commanders from their early days. Who fell off a steamboat in the Northwest into the Missouri River after the War without his body ever being found again?
6. Concurrently with the Union victory at Gettysburg, two former Yankees who went to the CSA as the war began surrendered their commands, thus cementing the genuine turn of the tides that July of 1863 became. Who were these officers?
7. The Union officer who was a master of organization and who developed the USMR (United State Military Railroad) which was a major factor in the Union's success, and who never accepted his general officer's commission was:
8. Confederate BG T. R. R. Cobb, a direct antecedent of the immortal T. R. Cobb (better known as Ty Cobb), mortally wounded at Fredericksburg, is buried a short walk from which edifice?
9. Montgomery Meigs, the Quartermaster General of the Union Army for almost the entire war, made sure of his lasting enmity to his former people (he was born and raised in Georgia) by what gesture?
10. Following the war, New Orleans favorite "The Great Creole" Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard, returned to the Crescent City and later ran the Louisiana Lottery. What CSA Lieutenant General combined with him on this nefarious project to earn them both a great deal of money?
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