U.S. Civil War Trivia

91. What was the target of the first military attack ever made on an oil installation?

From Quiz American Civil War : Part I

Answer: Burning Springs, Virgina

Burning Springs, Virginia was named for burning oil.

From Quiz All About The Civil War

Answer: First Manassas

First Manassas was also called Bull Run. It was the first of two battles.

From Quiz Civil War : Volume 4

Answer: South Carolina

In 1860, in reaction to the election of Lincoln, South Carolina voted to secede from the union.

From Quiz Civil War - Part Deux

Answer: Shot by a jealous doctor

Earl Van Dorn, one of the Confederacy's brightest stars, was shot and killed in his tent by Dr. George Peters - it seems the good doctor did not appreciate the attention General Van Dorn had paid to Mrs. Peters!

From Quiz Civil War : Volume 1

Answer: Robert E. Lee

After the battle of Bristoe Station, Va. in 1863, many of A.P. Hill's men lay dead or dying from a poorly planned assult on a Union stronghold. Lee was overheard uttering this to Hill after the battle, which at the time was considered a very harsh rebuke from Lee.

From Quiz Civil War

Answer: George Thomas

During the second day of the battle, Rosecrans, the Union Commander was erroneously informed that he had a gap in his line. When he moved units to fill in the 'Gap' he created one - which was quickly exploited by Longstreet. The Union Army crumbled and it was only George Thomas who stood firm on Horseshoe Ridge and Snodgrass Hill against repeated rebel assaults. Although Thomas himself vacated the field after dark, he had saved the Army from annihilation.

From Quiz Civil War Trivia 1

Answer: General Barnard Bee

From Quiz Random Facts about the Civil War

Answer: Harriet Beecher Stowe

Mrs. Stowe wrote 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' which became a best-seller and converted many Northerners to the antislavery cause. The book was banned in the South.

From Quiz Back to Civil War "Hell"

Answer: Shiloh

The Confederates had attacked and turned the position on both flanks and ultimately surrounded the Hornet's Nest. Some Union units successfully ran the gauntlet later termed "Hell's Hollow," which was so named because of the interconnecting fire from the nearing Confederate flanks; several other regiments were not able to escape and had to surrender.

From Quiz Civil War "Hell"

Answer: Forrest at Shiloh

Nathan Bedford Forrest, scouting into the night, witnessed thousands of Union reinforcements arrive after the first day's fighting. His reports seemed to reach few. Reinforcements alone seemed to equal the remaining Confederate soldiers left to fight the second day.

From Quiz The Civil War In The Indian nations

Answer: Opothleyohola

Opothleyohola fought against Andrew Jackson during the Red Stick war. As a result he had sworn to never raise the hatchet against the government again. He led a large group of Indian men, women and children and what belongings they could carry out of the Indian Nations to the relative safety of Kansas.

From Quiz A Civil War Reenactor's Rations

Answer: slab bacon

It was just called bacon then, but if one looks for slab bacon at specialty meat stores and finds it hanging at room temperature, you know you've found what you're looking for. Ask the butcher as well. At a reenactment, slice it thin and fry it in a lightweight reproduction sheet-iron frying pan, or sharpen a stick, pierce each slice and cook it over the flames Properly cured bacon should be able to withstand a weekend, or a week, or a summer, at normal summer temperatures, due to the salt and smoking. A half slab is 5-6 lbs., and a whole slab is twice that. Buy it unsliced and cut off as much as you think you'll eat over the weekend, then save the rest in a bug-free environment until the next reenactment. A refrigerator may be the best place, not for the temperature, but to keep the critters at bay. Wrap the rest in brown paper (cut up grocery bag) or in cloth, put it in your haversack, and slice it thin when mealtime comes at the reenactment. Another option is true salt pork, salted to be kept at room temperature, not the chunks of fat sold in the refrigerator at the store, but it's even harder to find than slab bacon.

From Quiz Are You Ready to Serve as a US Civil War Doctor?

Answer: vaccinating your men

Smallpox was the first disease for which a vaccination had been developed, by Edward Jenner in the very late 1700s. Though vaccination sometimes caused side effects due to a lack of sterility when the vaccine matter was inserted, the disease protection worked and there was no reason for the average surgeon to avoid it. According to the Revised Regulations for the [U.S.] Army, approved August 10, 1861, "Good vaccine matter will be kept on hand by timely requisition on the Surgeon-General." Confederate hospitals requested it where they seemed most apt to receive it. A doctor in Dalton, Ga, wrote Georgia Governor Joseph Brown on Aug. 26, 1862 asking him to "send vaccine matter to Dalton [Confederate military hospitals] as there was none to be had in the county. There is smallpox in Georgia and our people are greatly alarmed for fear of the spread of the disease!"

From Quiz American Civil War

Answer: Perryville

Perryville was the most severe battle in Kentucky. You could have identified this by elimination. The battle of Corinth happened shortly before the battle of Perryville, in Corinth, Mississippi. The battle of Albany never happened, Albany is in New York, and the armies of the C.S.A never made it up into northern New York. Gettysburg happened in Pennsylvania a bit later in the war.

From Quiz April, 1865

Answer: The Confederate government abandoned Richmond.

The Confederate government moved reluctantly to evacuate Richmond. Although the people in Richmond thought that Lee and his army would never allow the city to fall, Lee, who had held back the Union Army for 10 months and was faced with depleted and exhausted forces, determined that he could best serve the Confederacy by abandoning its capital and retreating south to join forces with General Joseph E. Johnston

From Quiz New York City During the Civil War

Answer: Matthew Brady

Matthew Brady, who had just moved his studio to Bleecker Street, recognized that Lincoln was not the most handsome of men. Instead of the usual close-up, Brady opted to pull the camera back and take a three-quarters shot of Lincoln. This brilliantly captured Lincoln's height and, thereby, conveyed his strength and stature. This photo was reproduced in magazines and newspapers across the nation. Later on, Lincoln would acknowledge that Matthew Brady's portrait was one of the things that "made me President."

From Quiz Just Another U.S. Civil War Quiz 2

Answer: Virginia

The Bloody Angle was the site of the heaviest fighting of the day at Spotsylvania, Virginia. The battle took place between May 8-12,1864. The Battle of Spotsylvania was General Grant's second largest battle in his Overland Campaign of the Civil War. The stump of an oak tree that was severed by rifle fire at the Bloody Angle can be found at the Smithsonian Museum of American History.

From Quiz Forward, Into the Past

Answer: Winchester

The First Battle of Winchester was a great victory for the South. General Jackson's troops captured the city, Banks' wagon train and hundreds of prisoners, inflicting terrible casualties to their opponents at a "bargain price" with under 400 killed, wounded and missing. The stunning CSA victory resulted in McDowell's corps being not detached to McClellan, who was threatening Richmond, the Confederate capital, from the Peninsula.

From Quiz Civil Warriors

Answer: "Dixie"

Surprisingly, Emmett was not from the South. He was a native of Ohio and wrote the song in New York City.

From Quiz Civilized War!

Answer: Battle of Chancellorsville

He was accidentally shot by another Confederate soldier and was transported off of the battlefield. Seven days afterwards, he died of disease, the main cause of deaths during the war.

From Quiz American Civil War - Horses and Riders

Answer: Winchester

Known also as Rienzi, he was renamed following the battle to reflect the battle's name.

From Quiz The United States Tragedy: The Civil War

Answer: Montgomery, Alabama

Davis was sworn in at the State House in Montgomery. Richmond was the Confederate capital. Atlanta was destroyed by General Sherman later in the war. Chattanooga was the site of a bloody battle named the Chickamauga Campaign. Approximately 100 years after the inauguration, Montgomery was a key city in the Civil Rights movement.

From Quiz All about The American Civil War!

Answer: freeing

The Emancipation Proclamation was an executive order issued on January 1st, 1863. It proclaimed the freedom of all slaves in areas under Confederate control and in effect made the abolition of slavery a key aim of the Civil War.

From Quiz Yet More Civil War Happenings and Characters

Answer: Seth Williams

Seth Williams was born in Augusta, Maine. When U. S. Grant became the General in Chief of the Union Armies, he made Williams the Inspector General, a post he held unitl 1866.

From Quiz Just another U.S. Civil War quiz

Answer: President of the Confederacy

Jefferson Davis was President of the Confederacy when he was imprisoned for two years after the Civil War came to an end. One of the stories that went around after President Davis' imprisonment was that he dressed as a woman to try to escape from prison.

From Quiz American Civil War

Answer: 1,685

There were 25,236 fighting men in RI's army, of whom 1,685 died in the Civil War. This is suprisingly high for the smallest state.

From Quiz American Civil War

Answer: April 12, 1861

The firing at Fort Sumter in Charleston, South Carolina on April 12, 1861 started the civil war.

From Quiz Civil War Trivia

Answer: Jefferson Davis

Confederate President Jefferson Davis graduated for West Point in 1828. He ranked 23rd in a class of 33 cadets. Lee graduated the following year, despite being one year older than Davis.

From Quiz The Civil War in Missouri: 2

Answer: Belmont

Grant fought an indecisive engagement at Belmont, across the Mississippi River from Columbus, Kentucky.

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