Yet More Civil War Happenings and Characters Quiz

Answer: False

Due to the natural erosion of Charleston Harbor, Fort Wagner (Battery Wagner), made famous by the attack of the 54th Massachusetts regiment of infantry in 1863, the entire area is under several feet of water. Nature has undoubtedly seen its course as to the hundreds of bodies buried in that sand, including Col. Robert Gould Shaw and many of his men.

Answer: Seth Williams

Seth Williams was born in Augusta, Maine. When U. S. Grant became the General in Chief of the Union Armies, he made Williams the Inspector General, a post he held unitl 1866.

Answer: General Dan Sickles

While the other three generals were officers of divisions or brigades in the Third Corps at Gettysburg, Sickles, the III Corps Commander, was to have seen the placement of his own bust in the monument following the war. However, although it was Sickles who had a great deal to do with Gettysburg achieving the status it soon achieved, it was also Sickles who supposedly undertook to "borrow" considerable funds from the Gettysburg Commission, never to be able to repay same. So his own monument went lagging.

Answer: 2 days

The Swamp Angel was a massive, 16,500 pound 9" "rifle" that fired giant projectiles designed to destroy Charleston during the 1863 attacks in which the 54th Massachusetts was wiped out at nearby Battery Wagner. Building the emplacements and support from which this monster could be fired in the sandy marshes on Folly Beach near what became known as Seccessionville was one of the major engineering feats of the War.

Its first shot was during the afternoon of August 22. The next day, after continuous firing which, by the way, did little if any damage to Charleston, it exploded.

After the war the tube was somehow dug up and taken north, now on display at Cadwallader Park in Trenton, NJ.

Answer: Stephen Dill Lee

S.D. Lee is buried in Columbus, Mississippi. The other three are buried in the Lee crypt at the chapel of Washington and Lee University, in Lexington, Virginia.

Answer: Daniel Harvey Hill

D. H. Hill, a crusty and outspoken former newspaperman, later became president of Davidson College in North Carolina, not far from Charlotte. His most famous quote, made at Malvern Hill, was "this wasn't war, this was murder".

Answer: Winfield S. Hancock

Hancock ran for President of the United States, but was never a governor.

Answer: Edward Pollard

Edward A. Pollard was the wartime editor of the "Richmond Examiner", the most influential paper in that city. He was outspokenly anti-Davis, and was more shrill as the war turned against the south. Following the war - very soon after - he published "Southern History of the War" in January, 1866.

It was a highly controversial work that continued to blame the North for all the calamities the war brought.

Answer: Adelbert Ames

Ames perpetually had his sights on higher levels, and cemented his future by his marriage to the politically savvy and still powerful Butler family . He went on to become wealthy and also served in the Spanish-American war.

Answer: Gold coins

Greenhow was one of the most famous - and successful - spies for the Confederacy from the beginning of the War until her death. Returning from a highly positive propaganda mission to Europe, her ship "The Condor" foundered at the mouth of the Cape Fear River en route to Wilmington. Desperately wanting to get to shore, she took a rowboat towards Wilmington, but the rough seas overturned the rowboat and supposedly the weight of the $2000 in gold coins contained in a bag around her neck caused her to drown.

She was treated to a hero's funeral, and her grave (the author has been there) in the Oakdale Cemetery in Wilmington is decorated as a southern heroine annually.