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Quiz about Dying Words of Confederate Soldiers

Dying Words of Confederate Soldiers Quiz

I will give you the dying words and you tell me who said them.

A multiple-choice quiz by supermanbhc. Estimated time: 5 mins.

Author
supermanbhc

Time
5 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
326,982

Updated
Dec 03 21

# Qns
10

Difficulty
Tough

Avg Score
5 / 10

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569

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Top 20% Quiz

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Question 1 of 10

1. What Confederate soldier said, "I would rather die a thousand deaths than betray a friend" just before he was hanged for not becoming an informant for the Union. Hint

Dewitt Jobe

Sam Davis

Champ Ferguson

William Anderson

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Question 2 of 10

2. Which Confederate general, who was mortally wounded during the Gettysburg Campaign, said just before dying, "It is time to be going." Hint

William Barksdale

Lewis Armistead

Paul Semmes

James Pettigrew

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Question 3 of 10

3. Which Confederate general, only moments before being shot through the heart in a gallant charge, remarked, "If we are to die, let's die like men." Hint

Lewis Armistead

Patrick Cleburne

Richard Garnett

Stonewall Jackson

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Question 4 of 10

4. Which general, after having his arm amputated and becoming sick with pneumonia, said "Let's cross over the river and rest beneath the shade of the trees." Hint

A.P. Hill

Stonewall Jackson

Sidney Johnston

Leonidas Polk

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Question 5 of 10

5. What Confederate general, shot nine times, said, "Tell my wife I am shot, but we fought like hell." Hint

Paul Semmes

William Barksdale

Jean Mouton

Tom Green

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Question 6 of 10

6. Which Confederate soldier had no dying words because Union soldiers cut out his tongue? Hint

Champ Ferguson

Dewitt Jobe

Sue Mundy

William Quantrill

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Question 7 of 10

7. What Confederate colonel after watching his men take a Federal fort, yelled, "Men, save yourselves or sell your lives as dearly as possible." Hint

James Speed Fry

Henry King Burgwyn

William Peleg Rogers

Robert Franklin Beckham

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Question 8 of 10

8. What Confederate officer wrote his dying words on a blood soaked piece of paper, "Tell my father I died with my face to the enemy." Hint

David Berkley Lang

Henry King Burgwyn

Isaac Erwin Avery

James Keith Marshall

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Question 9 of 10

9. What Confederate general's dying words were "Victory! Victory! Victory!" Hint

Samuel Benton

Roger Weightman Hanson

Benjamin Hardin Helm

Adley Hogan Gladden

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Question 10 of 10

10. Which Confederate general said these words just before going into battle and being killed, "I shall come out of this fight a live major general or a dead brigadier." Hint

Abner Monroe Perrin

States Rights Gist

Junius Daniel

Hiram Bronson Granbury

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. What Confederate soldier said, "I would rather die a thousand deaths than betray a friend" just before he was hanged for not becoming an informant for the Union.

Answer: Sam Davis

Sam Davis was hanged in Pulaski, Tennessee because he refused to become an informer. There is a museum to "the Boy hero of the Confederacy" on the spot where he was hanged.

2. Which Confederate general, who was mortally wounded during the Gettysburg Campaign, said just before dying, "It is time to be going."

Answer: James Pettigrew

James Pettigrew was shot in the stomach during the retreat from Gettysburg. He refused to be left behind, although doctors said he would die if brought back to Virginia.

3. Which Confederate general, only moments before being shot through the heart in a gallant charge, remarked, "If we are to die, let's die like men."

Answer: Patrick Cleburne

Patrick Cleburne understood that the charge ordered at Franklin, Tennessee was suicidal. His brigade commander General Govan said, "Won't be many of us make it back to Arkansas after this fight, General." That's when Cleburne replied with the phrase above.

4. Which general, after having his arm amputated and becoming sick with pneumonia, said "Let's cross over the river and rest beneath the shade of the trees."

Answer: Stonewall Jackson

These were the famous last of words of the great Stonewall Jackson. He was happy when told he would be dying on a Sunday.

5. What Confederate general, shot nine times, said, "Tell my wife I am shot, but we fought like hell."

Answer: William Barksdale

William Barksdale was hit nine times at the Battle of Gettysburg. He survived until the next day.

6. Which Confederate soldier had no dying words because Union soldiers cut out his tongue?

Answer: Dewitt Jobe

Union troops beat Dewitt Jobe, knocked out some of his teeth and yet he still refused to talk. They then gouged out his eyes and when he still wouldn't talk, they cut off his tongue. They then tied a rope to a horse and dragged him around till he died. He was the cousin of Sam Davis the Boy Hero of the Confederacy.

7. What Confederate colonel after watching his men take a Federal fort, yelled, "Men, save yourselves or sell your lives as dearly as possible."

Answer: William Peleg Rogers

Colonel Rogers yelled this just before being shot at the Battle of Corinth. His men had overrun Fort Robinette, but without support they could not hold the position. Ironically, he would have been a general if it wasn't for the fact that Confederate President Jefferson Davis despised him.

8. What Confederate officer wrote his dying words on a blood soaked piece of paper, "Tell my father I died with my face to the enemy."

Answer: Isaac Erwin Avery

Colonel Avery was hit in the neck and unable to speak at Gettysburg. He wrote these final words on a piece of paper.

9. What Confederate general's dying words were "Victory! Victory! Victory!"

Answer: Benjamin Hardin Helm

General Helm was mortally wounded at the Battle of Chickamauga. He uttered these final words after being told the Confederate's had won the battle. He was also the brother-in-law of Abraham Lincoln.

10. Which Confederate general said these words just before going into battle and being killed, "I shall come out of this fight a live major general or a dead brigadier."

Answer: Abner Monroe Perrin

General Perrin uttered these words just before entering the fight at the Battle of Spotsylvania.

Source: Author supermanbhc

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