July 2003 Quiz

Contributed by Helen Trimpi

1) Which of the following served as Confederate
Secretary of War? a) George W. Randolph b) Judah
Benjamin c) Leroy P. Walker d) James A. Seddon
e) John C. Breckinridge

2) Which of the following served as U. S. Secretary
of War? a) Simon Cameron b) William H. Seward c)
Edwin M. Stanton d) Montgomery Blair

3) Which of the following served as Chief Justice of
the U. S. Supreme Court during the war? a) Roger
B. Taney b) Salmon Chase c) Benjamin Curtis d)
James Wayne

4) The Confederate Chief Justice was a) James M.
Mason b) Jabez Lamar Monroe Curry c) James
Halyburton d) none of the above

5) Grant's first important battle was a) Belmont
b) Fort Henry c) Fort Donelson d) Shiloh

6) Lee's first important engagement was a) Rich
Mountain b) Malvern Hill c) Mechanicsville d)
First Manassas

7) During the Civil War the U.S. Naval Academy was
located at a) New York b) Annapolis c) Newport,
R. I. d) Boston

8) During the war the Confederate States Naval
Academy was located at a) on James River, near
Richmond b) Wilmington, NC c) Savannah, GA d)
Mobile Bay.

9) Who said the following and where? "It is well
that war is so terrible or we should grow too fond of
it."

10) Who said the following and where? "Let us have
peace."

11) Who said the following and where? "Up,
Virginians, and to your posts. Remember you are from
Old Virginia."

12) Who said the following and where? "We shall make
Georgia howl!"

13) Who said the following and where? "A
sharpshooter could not hit a barn door at this
distance," and then fell dead from a sharpshooter
bullet.

13) Who said the following and where? "There stands
Jackson like a stone wall."

14) Who said the following and where? "Damn the
torpedoes! Full steam ahead!"

15) Who said the following (or words to that effect)
and where? "A crow flying over those fields could
not find rations."

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