Civil War: "Ride with the Wind" Quiz

Answer: Winchester

On the way back from the meeting he had just attended, he heard the sound of gunshots and raced towards the sound, waving his hat on the way to rally troops that were starting to flee.

Answer: Lucy Long

During the confusion in Richmond she was placed in with the public horses and sent to Danville, and Lee lost all track of his war-horse. A thorough search was made and finally in 1866 she was found and brought to Lexington to be with Lee and Traveller.

Answer: Nathan Bedford Forrest

Barely able to read and write, Forrest entered the war as a private and was a Major General by the end of the war. Often described as the best officer the war produced on either side. He would be the first Grand Wizard of the KKK.

Answer: Turner Ashby

Ashby was killed in a rearguard action on June 6, 1862 near Harrisonburg. He had already become a legend. It was said he never met a Yankee he didn't want to kill, after the death of his brother Dick at the hands of the Federals. He was also known as the "Black Knight of the Confederacy"

Answer: Philip St. George Cooke

A native Virginian, he did not follow the South like the rest of his family and paid for it for the rest of his life being looked down upon by his family. After failing to catch up to Stuart, Cooke was given desk jobs.

Answer: Elon Farnsworth

Hugh Judson Kilpatrick got the moniker Kill-cavalry for just the sort of needless senseless charges that cost Farnsworth his life. In a charge that was being made to late to be of any value, when the Federals were not going to counter attack. Kilpatrick goaded Farnsworth to charge to his death.

Answer: 6th Pennsylvania Cavalry

The lance, a 10 foot fir shaft, tipped in steel and often with a metal foot on the butt end, was a serious weapon in the hands of a trained trooper. Strangely enough, such foolishness met with complete approval of the military leaders. They were used until May of 1863.

Answer: Thomas Rosser

Taking command of the Laurel Brigade he led it to Buckland Mills in Oct. 1863, defeating his good friend, George Custer. The two generals became hard-bitten rivals after this, clashing in the Shenandoah Valley and in the retreat from Petersburg to Appomattox. Rosser commanded Early's cavalry at Woodstock and Cedar Creek.

Answer: Nathan Bedford Forrest

When he enlisted as a private a month before his 40th birthday, he had raised and mounted a battalion at his own expense. When he escaped from Fort Donelson he took his entire command and several hundred volunteers from other units.

Answer: Alfred Iverson

The enlisted men of the 900 or so that were captured were put in Andersonville, the very place that they went to liberate. The officers were sent to Charleston, South Carolina. It was just one of the many failures of Stoneman.

Answer: George Custer

While being conspicuous in all engagements he was breveted for gallantry in five of them. A fine physical specimen, Custer had the beau sabreur temperament of an outstanding cavalry leader, but was very much a glory seeker, and that would prove his undoing in later years.

Answer: Thomas Ward Custer

A very good cavalryman in his own right, Tom Custer was barely 20 when the war ended. He died there with his brother at, The Little Big Horn. At Namozine Church he captured several battle flags, as he did at Sayler's Creek while being conspicuous in leading his men in both battles.

Answer: William Sooy Smith

Stopped by Forrest at West Point, Mississippi and forced back, Smith would argue with Sherman until Smith resigned. Sherman was forced to go back to Vicksburg, so he took a different way back and tore it up along the way too.

Answer: Turner Ashby

Like his brother before him, Turner Ashby would die at the hands of the Yankees. Shot down in a rearguard action at Harrisonburg on June 6, 1862 as he screened Jackson so he could entrench before the last battles of the Valley Campaign.

Answer: John Imboden

The makeshift patchwork army that Imboden put together was every man that could even hold a musket after Gettysburg; they were thrown into the mix and it held out long enough for Lee to get his army back across the Potomac River into Virginia and safety.

Answer: Wade Hampton

When Hampton took over after Stuart's death, some felt that it might be a good thing since he was more mature than Stuart. During the Petersburg siege he successfully captured 2,500 cattle from their Union guardians, one of the largest rustling operations in U.S. history. At the battle of Burgess' Mill Federal fire killed one of his sons and wounded another.

Answer: William Tecumseh Sherman

The horse was named after Grant, who had the nick-name Sam at West Point. As in Uncle Sam Grant even though his real first name was Hiram. During the march to the sea a Union soldier said "We could go and take over any old place "Uncle Billy" would lead us."

Answer: J.E.B. Stuart

Stuart had known Lee for a long time and even though he was not on duty he went with him to quell the uprising. Robert E. Lee is the only army officer to ever lead a Marine Unit in the history of the United States.

Answer: Sterling Price

General Price led a rag tag Army of 12,000 men, one-third of whom were unarmed in a last ditch effort to recapture Missouri for the Confederacy. This unsuccessful campaign proved to be the last organized Confederate operation in the Trans-Mississippi Theater.

Answer: William Clarke Quantrill

This raid so enraged the Union Army's area commander, Brigadier General Thomas Ewing Jr. that he issued General Order No.11, which swept four western Missouri counties clean of all inhabitants except those who were proven Union loyalists. More than 10,000 people were forced onto the road with only what they could carry, as troops burned their homes behind them.