Under New Management Trivia Quiz

Answer: Joseph E. Johnston

At the time of Johnston's wounding the tide of the war was against the Confederacy, since Federal forces under Major General George B. McClellan had advanced almost to the gates of the Confederate capital of Richmond. With General Lee in command, things went better for the rest of 1862. McClellan was driven back 30 miles from Richmond during the climactic Seven Days' Battles (June 25-July 1), the Union Army of Virginia under John Pope was crushed at the Second Battle of Manassas (Bull Run, August 28-30), an invasion to the North was attempted and ended with the Battle of Sharpsburg (Antietam) (September 17) and the Confederates again defeated their opponents at the Battle of Fredericksburg (December 13).

Answer: Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson

Who does not know "Stonewall" Jackson? His Valley Campaign is considered a tactical and strategic masterpiece and is being studied in military schools inside America and abroad. In the Seven Days' Battles, Jackson's performance was said to be poor. However, General Lee defended him, since he understood that poor staff work, very tough terrain, crude maps and great enemy resistance were conditions that greatly hindered Stonewall.

As history showed, Lee's confidence was not misplaced.

Answer: False

Longstreet's Wing was renamed the First Corps. James Longstreet's Corps has survived, in popular culture, as the anvil of Lee's army, whilst the Second, under Stonewall Jackson, is thought of as its hammer. However, at Second Manassas (Bull Run) the roles were reversed since Longstreet was the hitter and Jackson the defender. Longstreet's adherence to the defensive is blamed by some historians as the reason for the Confederates not being victorious at Gettysburg.

Answer: James Ewell Brown Stuart

At first, Lee classified the cavalry as a division under the command of J.E.B. Stuart but, in later 1863, it became a Corps. As a Corps, the structure of the cavalry was six brigades in two divisions. Many CSA partisan units, like Mosby's Rangers or John Imboden's command were classified as cavalry outfits. Stuart's bold and daring style of command brought him praise from Lee who, upon hearing news of Stuart being killed, stated that he "cannot scarcely think of him without weeping".

Answer: William N. Pendleton

Pendleton was not a military man by profession. He was an Episcopal priest. During the Civil War, he still resumed his religious practices, always preaching to his men. After the war, he maintained friendship with General Robert E. Lee and was the minister who conducted Lee's funeral.

Answer: Lafayette McLaws

Instead of having two Corps with four divisions each, Lee chose to have three Corps with three divisions each. Ewell's command, the Second Corps, was comprised of Early's, Johnson's and Rodes' divisions and, with this structure, participated at the Battle of Gettysburg.

Answer: Ambrose Powell Hill

Ambrose Powell Hill, commonly referred to as A.P. Hill, had previously commanded the "Light Division", the largest division in the Army of Northern Virginia, with distinction, and was chosen by Lee to command the Third Corps. The three divisions of Hill's Corps were Henry Heth's, William Dorsey Pender's and Richard Heron Anderson's. Hill's deteriorating health resulted in other people receiving temporary command of the Third Corps, something that happended more than once in the pivotal year of 1864.

Answer: False

It was Wade Hampton who ultimately succeeded the fallen J.E.B. Stuart, after a brief period in which the Cavalry was commanded by Fitzhugh Lee, nephew of the commanding general. Hampton was the one who defeated the famous US cavalryman Philip H. Sheridan at the battle of Trevelian Station, thwarting a raid that had created a scare in the Confederate capital of Richmond.

Answer: Jubal Anderson Early

Early's most noted accomplishment in his position as Corps commander was his invasion of the North, victory at the Battle of Monocacy (July 9, 1864) and his brief stand against the Federal capital of Washington. Early described that operation of his, which was practically a diversion, in order to prevent the Union officials from reinforcing their main army in Virginia, the Army of the Potomac, to Major Henry Kyd Douglas with the following words: "Major, we didn't take Washington, but we scared Abe Lincoln like hell".

Answer: Richard Heron Anderson

The Corps was created by the merging of units of the three exisitng infantry Corps and other reserve units around Richmond. Anderson was promoted to Lieutenant General as a reward for his already offered services, being simultaneously given command of the Fourth Corps.

Its existence however was brief, since the spring of 1865 brought the end of the Civil War. One day before the surrender at Appomattox, the Fourth Corps was dissolved and its units were merged with the First.