Civil War Hodge-Podge Trivia Quiz

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.

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.

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!"

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.

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."

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.

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.

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.

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.

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."

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.

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.

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.

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.

Answer: Virginia

Thus always to tyrants is the state motto of Virginia. Others thought that they heard him say, "The south is avenged!"

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".

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.

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.

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.

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".

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."

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.

Answer: Vicksburg

There is a total of around 17,000 Unionists laid to rest on the banks of the old Mississippi at Vicksburg.

Answer: Alexander Schimmelfennig

Being wounded in the barnyard as it were, the proud Prussian would later falter from his wounds and die of TB.

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.