March 2003 Quiz


1 - The Dunker Church was a part of what battlefield?

2 - Union Major General Joseph Mansfield died at the battle of ________.

3 - Union General Joseph Hooker had what nickname?

4 - Who was James A. Andrews (1826-62)?

5 - The legendary cavalryman who died at Yellow Tavern was ______?

6 - At Lookout Mountain the rebels were outnumbered by (how many (number)) to one.

7 - Unable to believe he had won a decisive victory at Chickamauga, this Southern commander went to bed rather than pursue the retreating Yankee General George Thomas. He was ______.

8 - Southern railroad tracks wrapped around trees by Sherman's men on their March to the Sea were called ________.

9 - How far was it considered a soldier could see in the Wilderness?

10 - Estimates have it the deaths were 2 1/2 to 1 for the North and 3 to 1 for the South. What do the two numbers signify?

11 - What item was Harry Heth's rebels after that caused them to go into Gettysburg?

12 - The last day of the Seven Days battle saw the gallant but ill-fated rebel charge up ­p; what?

13 - By the end of the war one out of every ten Federals and one out of every seven Confederates had -----what?

14 - Whose last words were: "Let us cross over the river and rest under the shade of the trees"?

15 - Which of these generals were "political generals"?
John A. McClernand George Thomas
John A. Logan U. S. Grant
James B. McPherson Franz Sigel
Ben Butler Dan Sickles
George B. McClellan Phil Sheridan

16 - How many men on active duty as officers in the U. S. Army at the outbreak of war in 1861 joined the Confederate Army?

17 - To what outfit did John Wilkes Booth belong at the time he attended John Brown's hanging?

18 - While Lincoln lie dying, who said, "Now he belongs to the ages"?

19 - This month's hard question: One West Point class exceeded any other in the number of its members who would one day become either Union or Confederate generals. What year was it?

20 - This month's Alan Sissenwein impossible question: What famous American painter's father wrote the standard work on bandaging wounds than was used by both sides during the Civil War?


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