Civil War Mixture Trivia Quiz

Answer: Iowa

The 14th Iowa was the first to take up the position and the 12th Iowa was the last to leave it. Grant said, "Iowa is a young state, but it is a state of heros; those Iowa boys saved my Army."

Answer: William Tecumseh Sherman

Uncle Billy, as the men called him, didn't like the feel of boots when he was riding his horse Sam, named after Grant. He said it was to hard to think with boots on.

Answer: Jedediah Hotchkiss

Hotchkiss was the man who made Jackson's maps for the Valley Campaign as well.

Answer: Nashville, Tennessee

After the fall of Fort Donelson, Albert S. Johnston told Governor Harris to get the state records out of Nashville. Don Carlos Buell was the General in charge of the Union forces that captured Nashville, with very little opposition. Both Lincoln and Halleck had been against the move on Nashville. Febuary 24, 1862 was the day that Nashville was captured.

Answer: Murfreesboro

Murfreesboro or Stones River a part of the battlefield was called The Round Forest. It earned the name "Hell's Half-Acre for the hard fighting that happened there. After the first day Bragg telegraphed Davis to say he had won a great victory. The next day Breckenridge's men, as they advanced, were cut down by cannon located on a nearby hillside, as Breckenridge had predicted.

But Bragg still ordered the charge. It did little but add to the Confederate casualties.

Answer: 0

Quaker Guns were fake, they were often logs cut to the shape of cannons and displayed as if they were real guns. Prince John Magruder used them at Yorktown to fool McClellan.

Answer: Shiloh

The Union stronghold known as the Hornet's Nest stalled the Rebel attack long enough for Grant to take up a position closer to Pittsburgh Landing that Grant said saved his Army.

Answer: Robert Anderson

The same Robert Anderson that was in charge at Ft. Sumter, that Beauregard fired upon to start the war. Beauregard had been one of his best students. The Civil War started at 4:30 a.m. April 12, 1861 with a shot fired by Edmund Ruffin.

Answer: Memphis, Tennessee

After stopping in Memphis, Tennessee the Sultana crossed the river to take on coal. Some speculate that a bomb, made to look like a chunk of coal, was placed on board. The loss of life was the greatest maritime disaster in U.S. history, with a death toll of around 1,700.

Answer: Second Bull Run

In the last week of August 1862, Longstreet sent 28,000 men to attack Pope's command, that Pope had no idea were even there. Pope had convinced himself that the Confederates under Jackson were retreating. A Union stand at Henry House Hill avoided the kind of rout that happened at the First Bull Run.

Answer: William Hardee

Hardee's 'Tactics', as it was often called, was the standard textbook used by both sides. He wrote it while teaching tactics at West Point.

Answer: George Dixon

The first semi-submersible, the Hunley, killed 42 men including its inventor during the test-runs and after the sinking of the Housatonic,went to the bottom herself.

Answer: Ely Parker

When Lee saw Parker he said, "At least there is one real American here." To which Grant replied, "Now we are all Americans again."

Answer: Patrick Cleburne

The "Stonewall of the West" as Cleburne was known, saw that the charge had to be made over almost two miles of open field with no artillery support - and into a fortified position, without all the troops up yet.

Answer: Montgomery Meigs

After replacing Joseph E. Johnston as Quartermaster General when Johnston resigned, the first place Meigs thought of was Arlington House when Lincoln ask him to find a site for a new cemetery. Meigs was a southerner that had stayed loyal, who hated the men who did not stay loyal. So it was an easy choice to take Lee's home. Meig's son John, would soon be buried there.

The quote goes, "They had made a cemetery out of his home, so General Lee filled it up with their soldiers."