Necrolithology of the Civil War Quiz

Answer: True

He died at a loyal supporter's home in the Garden District of New Orleans in December of 1889, and was interred in the Army of Northern Virginia's crypt and tomb in Metairie Cemetery in a suburb of New Orleans. His body was later exhumed and transferred to Hollywood Cemetery in Richmond, Virginia, where it is surrounded by Confederate flags.

Answer: John Wilkes Booth, MGen Isaac Trimble, Gen Joseph E. Johnston

Trimble (who wanted "to take that damn hill" at Gettysburg) and Johnston's remains are still in Green Mount Cemetery. Various requests to exhume Booth's remains for verification that that which is buried near or under the Booth family marker have been rebuffed. Nobody is actually sure where his remains are.

Answer: Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington VA

Sickles lived his life (minus the leg he lost at Gettysburg which he visited at the U S Army Medical Museum often) in the same outspoken, politically savvy, glad-handing, and borrowing money to maintain style in which he had been living at the time he shot Francis Scott Key's son who was having an affair with his wife.

He lived with the former Queen Isabella of Spain on the Upper East Side of New York for quite a while. He died a pauper, with nobody to provide him with a tombstone fitting for his lifestyle at either Woodlawn or Greenwood cemeteries, where the rich and famous of New York ended up.

He was given a soldier's burial with a simple government issued headstone at Arlington in a spot which was, at the time the author hunted for it, not accurate as to location in the records at Arlington.

Answer: Randoph B. Marcy

Prior to the War, George McClellan married Marcy's daughter Ellen, much to the consternation of Confederate General A. P. Hill, who was a suitor for her hand. Marcy was McClellan's chief of staff while Little Mac commanded the Army of the Potomac, and was one of four inspector generals through the end of the War. Their graves face each other about 100 feet apart.

Answer: W. F. "Baldy" Smith

Among others also buried in Laurel Hill Cemetery, in simply marked graves with non-grandiose tombstones are George Gordon Meade, Samuel Crawford, and John C.Pemberton.

Answer: John Bell Hood, P.G.T. Beauregard, and Richard Taylor

The "Great Creole", Pierre Gustave Toutante Beauregard was from St. Charles Parish and returned to New Orleans a hero where he ran the highly lucrative Louisiana lottery. He died in 1893, and his remains are entombed in the Army of North Virginia crypt in the Cemetery. John Bell Hood married a woman from New Orleans, and was involved in several businesses. Following one of the worst yellow fever episodes of the many in New Orleans history, in 1879 his wife, one child and he died from the plague, and were buried in the family tomb there. Richard Taylor, the "Soldier Prince of Dixie", was President Zachary Taylor's son and was the last CSA general officer to surrender troops during the war.

He died in 1879 and is buried in the family crypt.

Answer: O.O. Howard and George Stannard

Kearney lost an arm (he used to joke with O.O. Howard that they could go buy gloves together and only buy one pair) but is buried at Arlington National Cemetery. Heintzelman died uninjured following the War and is buried in Forest Lawn Cemetery in Buffalo, NY. Zollicoffer was the first general officer killed in battle in the War on either side in January 1862 and is buried in City Cemetery, Nasville, TN.

Answer: Jefferson Davis

The "other" Jefferson Davis, Union general Jefferson C. Davis, first gained notoriety as the man who shot and killed Union general William "Bull" Nelson in the Galt Hotel in Louisville in 1862. Union general Lew Wallace, the errant leader at Shiloh who went on to write "Ben Hur" is also buried in Indiana, in Crawfordsville. Mathew Brady is buried in Congressional Cemetery in Washington, DC. Union MG Horatio Wright is buried literally a few feet from the front porch of R.E. Lee's Arlington home in Arlington National Cemetery.

Answer: Julia and Ulysses Grant

Grant's elaborate and 'one of a kind' tomb contains the earthly remains of General and Mrs. Ulysses S. Grant, each in its own elegant dark rose granite sarcophagus.

Answer: They were buried and later exhumed to be placed under commemorative monuments elsewhere.

AP Hill was killed near Petersburg and buried briefly at his family home. His remains were later exhumed and placed under a monument on a wide boulevard in Richomnd, VA. N B Forrest was originally buried in Elmwood Cemetery in Memphis, TN alongside six other Forrests, all of whom were CSA cavalrymen, and reinterred under a striking monument of Forrest mounted on a huge horse in downtown Memphis. Patrick Cleburne was killed at the battle of Franklin and buried there to later be exhumed and buried at the cemetery in Helena, AR under a dark rose granite obelisk with a harp chiseled on the side. SR Gist was also killed at the battle of Franklin and buried there, but later exhumed and reinterred under a fitting obelisk monument at Trinity Episcopal Churchyard Cemetery in Columbia, SC. Stonewall Jackson died at Guinea Station, VA, and was buried in a small plot in what became known as Stonewall Cemetery in Lexington, VA.

He was later exhumed and reinterred under a large granite monument in a different location in the same cemetery.

Answer: False

Meagher was never wounded and fell off a steamboat on the Missouri River in Montana after consuming a great deal of alcohol in July of 1867.

Answer: William Tecumseh Sherman

Sherman's gravesite in St. Louis is a large granite obelisk upon which is carved the Corps symbol of the 15th Army Corps, a cartridge box with the words "40 Rounds". Leonidas Polk was not only a MG in the CSA, but the Episcopal Bishop of Louisiana. He is buried within the Christ Church Episcopal Cathedral in New Orleans. O.O. Howard was a devout Presbyterian, and is buried at Lake View Cemetery in Burlington, VT. William M. Pendleton was also an Episcopal priest, commanded the Artillery of the Army of Northern Virginia, and is buried in the the Stonewall Cemetery in Lexington, VA.

Answer: Irvin McDowell

McDowell's simple, 2x3 government issue engraved white granite headstone reads "Irwin McDowell (most records indicate his name was spelled "Irvin") MAJ GEN US ARMY MAY 4 1885". The headstone and the grave of Pauline Cushman Fryer, the most famous of Union women spies during the War, is buried nearby, as well as that of General Baker of Ball's Bluff fame. Pope is buried in Bellefontaine Cemetery in St. Louis, Mo. McClellan is buried in Riverview Cemetery in Trenton, NJ. Meade is buried with several other CW notables in Laurel Hill cemetery in Philadelphia, PA.

Answer: Nobody

Shaw was killed at the charge on Battery Wagner in Charleston on July 18, 1863. Confederates buried Shaw in the sands along with the rest of the men of the 54th who died in the fight. Shaw never had any children. His wife is buried nearby. No body is in the tomb.

Answer: Leonidas Polk

CSA Major General and Episcopal Bishop of Louisiana Leonidas Polk is buried within the nave of Christ Church Episcopal Cathedral in New Orleans, LA. General Robert Edward Lee is buried in the chapel at Washington and Lee University in Lexington, VA. Richard Heron Anderson is buried in a crypt outside the front entrance to Saint Helena's Episcopal Church in Beaufort, SC. States Rights Gist is buried in the church graveyard at Trinity Episcopal Church in Columbia, SC.