CIVIL WAR TRIVIA - Source: http://www.bitsofblueandgray.com
QUESTIONS
ANSWERS
Q: Which Union Infantry Regiment had the most Battle Deaths?
A: The 5th New Hampshire Infantry Regiment had 195 Battle Deaths.
Q: What physician-inventor devised a weapon for the Union army, which used
only twelve of them, that was the prototype of the machine gun?
A: Dr. Richard J. Gatling (The Gatling gun)
Q: What two Federal generals were in command of troops at the battle of Iuka,
Mississippi?
A: U. S. Grant and W. S. Rosecrans.
Q: What South Carolina aristocrat kept a journal that was later published as
"A Diary from Dixie"?
A: Mary Boykin Miller Chesnut.
Q: Who was the only Jewish member of the group that functioned as a cabinet
for Confederate president Jefferson Davis?
A: Judah P. Benjamin, Secretary of War.
Q: Who was the only civilian killed at Gettysburg?
A: Jennie Wade
Q: What raiders, captured by Confederates, were treated as civilian spies
because they were out of uniform?
A: The 24-army volunteers who followed civilian James J. andrews. (andrews
Raid became known as the Great Locomotive Chase.)
Q: Where did T. J. "Stonewall" Jackson die?
A: Guiney Station, Virginia
Q: How many men were in a Company? How many Companies in a Regiment?
A: 100 men in a Company and 10 Companies in a Regiment.
Q: Who were the two commanding generals at the siege of Vicksburg,
Mississippi?
A: U. S. Grant and John C. Pemberton
Q: Who were the two commanding officers at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania?
A: George G. Meade and Robert E. Lee
Q: He was a teacher at VMI before the war.. name him.
A: Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson
Q: Many battles had more than one name, ie.: Antietam/Sharpsburg, or First
Bull Run/First Manassas... there was a battle on the 30th of Jun 1862 in VA
with seven names, what was it?
A: It was White Oak Swamp/Frayser's Farm/Glendale/Charles City Cross
Roads/Nelson's Farm/Turkey Bend/New Market Cross Roads.
Q: What general frequently strolled about camp handing out Sunday school
leaflets?
A: Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson
Q: Who spent his first 13 months in Confederate uniform without coming under
fire or taking part in a general engagement?
A: Robert E. Lee
Q: What was the name of the play President Lincoln attended at Ford's Theater
on April 14, 1865?
A: Our American Cousin.
Q: What young South Carolina sergeant took water to wounded enemies and
became known as the " Angel of Marye's Heights"?
A: Richard Rowland Kirkland
Q: Who was the Union General killed leading his men into the Battle of
Gettysburg?
A: General John F. Reynolds
Q: Who commanded the two armies at the Battle of Nashville, Tennessee?
A: George Thomas and John B. Hood.
Q: What was the name of General Meade's horse?
A: Old Baldy.
Q: How long was andersonville in use as a prison site?
A: 14 months.
Q: Who was the Hero of Little Round Top?
A: General Grover K. Warren
Q: What two events happened July 4th, 1863 that, to many, doomed the
Confederacy?
A: The last day of the battle of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania and the surrender
of Vicksburg, Mississippi.