Provide the name of the “Favorite” horse ridden by each of these Civil War Personalities
Q#1 – US Grant
Q#2 – Robert E Lee
Q#3 – George McClellan
Q#4 – William T Sherman
Q#5 – Philip Sheridan
Q#6 – Stonewall Jackson
Q#7 – Jeb Stuart
Q#8 – George Meade
Q#9 – George Thomas
Q#10 – Joe Hooker
Q#11 – Philip Kearny
Q#12 – Albert Sidney Johnston
Q#13 – George Armstrong Custer
Q#14 – Jefferson Davis
Q#15 – Nathan Bedford Forrest
Q#1 – Before he performed his most famous role as artillery commander for Pickett’s Charge, what Confederate officer’s first role was that of spying on Union troops movements?
Q#2 – In the spring of 1862, US Grant appointed a man to create Grant’s espionage apparatus. What was this man’s name?
Q#3 – What is the name of the Southern woman whose spying activities earned her the name “The Siren of the Shenandoah”?
Q#4 – In 1863, a Union officer was appointed head of the Army of the Potomac’s Bureau of Information. What was his name?
Q#5 – What was the name of the Confederate Officer who set up the Confederate Secret Service Bureau?
Q#6 – Name the woman who was a Union sympathizer who lived in Richmond and among her spying activities also took food to the Union prisoners kept in Libby Prison?
Q#7 – What was the name of the Confederate spy who lived in Washington DC and stole George McClellan’s Peninsula order of battle and plans in April 1862?
Q#8 – A man who spied for the Union was actually the Superintendent of the key southern RF&P Railroad that supplied General Lee’s troops in 1862-63. What was his name?
Q#9 – What is the name of the Confederate spy who planted a bomb containing 12 pounds of power and exploded it on August 9, 1864 with the subsequent blast almost killing US Grant at the Union’s City Point Supply Depot?
Q#10 – What Confederate commander spoke these words: “In general my purpose was to threaten and harass the enemy on the border and in this way compel him to withdraw troops from his front to guard the line of the Potomac and Washington. This would greatly diminish his offensive power”
Q#11 – What was the name of the Union raider who in 1862 stole the Confederate locomotive named “The General”?
Q#12 – On April 21, 1862, the Confederate Congress passed legislation that was intended as a stimulus for recruitment of irregulars for service into the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. What was the name of this law?
Q#13 – Confederate William Quantrill named a Kansas Senator “…the chief of all the Jayhawkers and the worst man that was ever born into this world.” What was this Senator’s name?
Q#14 – In 1864, the Louisville Kentucky Courier Newspaper wrote that a band of Confederate guerrillas in Kentucky was led by a woman named Sue Mundy. This person was in fact a man. What was his name?
Q#15 – On August 25, 1863, General Thomas Ewing Jr., who was William Tecumseh Sherman’s brother-in-law, issued his General Order No. 11, which isn considered one of the most repressive measures ever inflicted upon an American civilian population. What was that order?
Q#1 – What was the initial name of the Army of the Potomac when it was formed in 1861?
Q#2 – Who was the very first commander of the Army of the Potomac before it was assigned that name?
Q#3 – It is a popular, but mistaken, belief that John Pope commanded the Army of the Potomac after McClellan’s unsuccessful Peninsula Campaign. What Union Army did Pope command at that time?
Q#4 – The Army of the Potomac underwent many structural changes during its existence. In November 1862, how did Ambrose Burnside structure the Army?
Q#5 – True or False: The Confederates also had an army named the Army of the Potomac.
Q#6 – Who was responsible for establishing the corps structure in the Army of the Potomac?
Q#7 – Once corps were established, what was the criteria for appointing corps commanders?
Q#8 – Why were the I and III Corps disbanded in 1863?
Q#9 – Who took over command of the Army of the Potomac after George Gordon Meade?
Q#10 – After taking command, what structural action did General Joseph Hooker implement regarding the cavalry?
Q#11 – In late 1863, two corps was sent west. Name them.
Q#12 – After Major General George G. Meade became Commander of the Army of the Potomac, who took brief temporary command during Meade’s absences on four occasions?
Q#13 – The “Fighting 69th” New York Infantry was part of which brigade?
Q#14 – Due to attrition and transfers, the army was reorganized in March 1864 with only four corps. Name these corps.
Q#15 – After the end of the war, what was the disposition of the Army of the Potomac?
Q#1 – What was William Tecumseh Sherman’s birth date?
Q#2 – What town and state was Sherman born in?
Q#3 – What explanation did Sherman provide for how he was given his middle name of Tecumseh?
Q#4 – What famous American Founding Father was Sherman distantly related to?
Q#5 – Sherman’s father, Charles Robert Sherman, died unexpectedly in 1829. At the time, what legal position did Sherman’s father hold?
Q#6 – When Sherman entered West Point in 1836, what future famous Union Civil War general was his roommate?
Q#7 – After graduating from West Point in 1840, in what conflict did Sherman experience his first military action?
Q#8 – Did Sherman see any combat action in the Mexican–American War of 1846-48?
Q#9 – In 1850, Sherman married Eleanor Boyle (“Ellen”) Ewing. How many children did they have?
Q#10 – In 1853, Sherman resigned his captaincy in the United States Army. What position did he assume in the private sector?
Q#11 – In 1859, what important administrative position in the academic sector was Sherman appointed to?
Q#12 – In June 1865, Sherman received his first post Civil War command. What was that command?
Q#13 – In 1875, Sherman published a two-volume book of his memoirs. What was the title of the memoirs?
Q#14 – In retirement, Sherman was much in demand as a colorful speaker at dinners and banquets. What famous playwright was Sherman fond of quoting?
Q#15 – In 1891, what famous Confederate General served as a pallbearer at Sherman’s funeral and died one month later of pneumonia?
Q#1 – In September 1861, President Lincoln revoked an unauthorized military proclamation of emancipation in Missouri and relieved the Union commander who issued it. What was the name of that Union commander?
Q#2 – What was the date of the Battle of Antietam?
Q#3 – What action did President Lincoln take on September 22, 1862?
Q#4 – The Battle of Chickamauga was fought on September 19/20, 1863. What were the names of the Confederate and Union commanders?
Q#5 – What significant Union victory occurred on September 2, 1864?
Q#6 – What major military action occurred on September 12 that was part of Lee’s first invasion of the North?
Q#7 – After many failed attempts to capture it, what Confederate fort located in South Carolina was finally captured by Union troops on September 7, 1863?
Q#8 – What was the name of the battle that was fought on September 18-20, 1861, in Missouri that was won by the Confederates and threatened keeping Missouri in the Union?
Q#9 – On September 4, 1861, a large Confederate Army moved into Kentucky, occupied Columbus, and began occupying high ground overlooking the Mississippi River. What was the name of the Confederate commander?
Q#10 – Following Union general Pope’s disastrous defeat at the Battle of Second Bull Run, what action did President Lincoln take on September 2, 1862?
Q#11 – What major legal action did President Lincoln take on September 24, 1862, that now affected all the states in the North?
Q#12 – On September 8, 1863, the Second Battle of Sabine Pass was fought when a Union flotilla of four gunboats and seven troop transports steamed into Sabine Pass and up the Sabine River. What was the reason for this military engagement?
Q#13 – What was the name of the battle fought on September 21-22, 1864, when Union general Philip Sheridan defeated the Confederate Army led by General Jubal Early, which opened up the Shenandoah Valley to a Union “scorched earth” invasion that became known as the “Burning” or “Red October”?
Q#14 – During March 19-21, 1865, what battle was fought in North Carolina?
Q#15 – What was the name of the battle fought on September 14, 1862, initiated by Union general George McClellan after he found Lee’s General Order 191?
Q#1 – On what date were the first shots of naval warfare in the Civil War fired and where were they fired?
Q#2 – On what date were the final shots of the naval warfare in the Civil War fired and where were they fired?
Q#3 – Other than performing blockade duty or trying to sink each other’s naval ships, what were the two primary objectives of each side’s naval forces?
Q#4 – What was a secondary use of each side’s naval forces during the Civil War?
Q#5 – What significant event occurred during the naval Battle of Aquia Creek, which took place from May 29, 1861 to June 1, 1861?
Q#6 – What was the first battle involving Union ironclads in the Civil War (Hint: It was not the naval Battle of Hampton Roads between the Monitor and Merrimac)?
Q#7 – What significant event occurred during the naval battle at Fort Pillow, Tennessee (aka Plum Point Bend) between ships of the Confederate River Defense Fleet and the Union Mississippi River Squadron?
Q#8 – The naval Battle of Arkansas Post (aka, Battle of Fort Hindman) fought January 9–11, 1863, near the mouth of the Arkansas River at Arkansas Post, Arkansas, resulted in what significant adverse consequence for the Confederacy?
Q#9 – What was the outcome of the Second Naval Battle of Sabine Pass which took place on September 8, 1863?
Q#10 – What significant naval event occurred on February 17, 1864, in Charleston Harbor, South Carolina?
Q#11 – What was the name of the naval battle where the Confederate CSS Alabama ship was sunk and what was the date of the battle?
Q#12 – What is the significance of the Second Battle of Fort Fisher fought on January 13–15, 1865, involving an assault by the Union Army, Navy, and Marine Corps against Fort Fisher, outside Wilmington, North Carolina?
Q#13 – Which naval battle is considered the greatest Union naval victory of the war?
Q#14 – What international diplomatic flap on October 7, 1864, was labeled the “Bahia Incident”?
Q#15 – The Union naval blockade of Southern ports and harbors were part of what overall Northern plan for defeating the Confederacy?
Q#1 – What were the names of the three Confederate Division commanders in Pickett’s Charge?
Q#2 – On Cemetery Ridge, which Union Corp was the target of the Confederate assault and who was the Corps Commander?
Q#3 – Which Union division was directly in the center of the Union line on Cemetery Ridge?
Q#4 – What other military action did Lee plan to initiate concurrent with the infantry attack on Cemetery Ridge?
Q#5 – Approximately how many Confederate cannons were used to bombard the Union Line on Cemetery Ridge prior to Pickett’s Charge?
Q#6 – What are the three main reasons given for the ineffectiveness of the Confederate bombardment of the Union Line on Cemetery Ridge prior to Pickett’s Charge?
Q#7 – What was the name of the general in charge on the Union artillery?
Q#8 – What was the reason there was little or no close artillery support provided by E. Porter Alexander’s artillery once the Confederate infantry actually began to move toward the Union lines?
Q#9 – What is the current most accurate estimate of the number of Confederate infantry troops that actually made Pickett’s Charge?
Q#10 – Of the 3 main divisions involved in Pickett’s charge, how many Confederate brigades were involved?
Q#11 – As the Confederate infantry lines approached Cemetery Ridge, what were the Union troops on Cemetery Ridge heard to be shouting at them?
Q#12 – Which Union regiment attacked Confederate General Brockenbrough’s brigade on the left flank of Pickett’s Charge causing the Southerners to retreat back to Seminary Ridge?
Q#13 – What was the name of the Union brigade that delivered devastating musket fire into the right flank of Pickett’s division as it attacked up the slope of Cemetery Ridge?
Q#14 –What was the name of the Union brigade that defended the Union center where a low stone wall took an 80-yard right-angle turn that became known afterward as “The Angle?”
Q#15 – What were the approximate number of Union casualties resulting from Pickett’s Charge? What were the Confederates?
Q#1 – How many “major” battles were fought during the Seven Days Battles?
Q#2 – What are the names of the “major” battles that were fought and in what sequence were they fought?
Q#3 – What was the name of the minor battle that was fought on June 25 that signaled the beginning of the Seven Days Battle?
Q#4 – What was the name of the farm where on June 28 Confederate General Brig. Gen. Robert A. Toombs’s brigade was severely battered by the Union 49th Pennsylvania and 43rd New York regiments?
Q#5 – After a major battle was fought on June 26, what was the number of Confederate troops that Union General McClellan reported to Washington that he estimated he was facing?
Q#6 – What are the other two names given to the Battle of Gaines’s Mill?
Q#7 – Of the “major” battles fought during the Seven Days Battle, which is the only one that was a clear-cut Confederate tactical victory?
Q#8 – What was the name of the railroad line where the Battle of Savage’s Station was fought?
Q#9 – What was the name given to the first instance of an armored railroad battery to be used in combat by the Confederate Army?
Q#10 – At the Battle of White Oak Swamp, what Confederate government official came under artillery fire and had to be ordered from the field by AP Hill?
Q#11 – Which Union General prepared the Union positions on Malvern Hill?
Q#12 – How many Union cannon were placed on Malvern Hill to repulse the Confederate attack on July 1?
Q#13 – What was the name of the location on the James River that Union General McClellan retreated to after the last engagement of the Seven Days Battle?
Q#14 – Which side incurred more casualties during the Seven Days Battle?
Q#15 – After the end of the Seven Days Battle, the Army of the Potomac encamped around Berkeley Plantation. What was the name of the US President who was born there?
Q#1 – What were the dates when the Battle of Seven Pines was fought?
Q#2 – What two other names are often given to the Battle of Seven Pines?
Q#3 – Near what river on the Virginia Peninsula was the battle fought?
Q#4 – What was the approximate size of the Union Army?
Q#5 – What was the approximate size of the Confederate Army?
Q#6 – What was Confederate Joseph E. Johnston’s attack plan?
Q#7 – What critical mistake did Confederate General James Longstreet make at the beginning of the battle?
Q#8 – Where was Union General George McClellan at the start of the battle?
Q#9 – What fairly new scouting technique did the Union employ to identify where Confederate forces were located and where they were marching to?
Q#10 – What was the name of the bridge over the Chickahominy River that collapsed almost immediately after Union General Edwin V. Sumner’s II Corps crossed it?
Q#11 – What wounds did Confederate General Joseph E. Johnston suffer that resulted in him having to be replaced by Robert E. Lee as Commander of the Army of Northern Virginia?
Q#12 – Which side won the Battle of Seven Pines?
Q#13 – What did Union General George McClellan write his wife regarding his reaction to the battle?
Q#14 – After the battle, what maneuver did the Army of Northern Virginia execute?
Q#15 – After the battle, what action did Union General McClellan take with his army?
Q#1 – Who was President Abraham Lincoln’s first Secretary of War?
Q#2 – Who was President Jefferson Davis’s first Secretary of War?
Q#3 – What was the name of the only Confederate Vice President?
Q#4 – What was the name of the President Abraham Lincoln’s first Vice President?
Q#5 – What was the name of the Governor of South Carolina when that state seceded from the Union in December 1861?
Q#6 – When George McClellan ran for President in 1864, who was his Vice Presidential running mate?
Q#7 – For the Presidential election of 1864, there was a splinter political party given the name the Radical Republicans. What was the name of their Presidential candidate who withdrew before the actual election?
Q#8 – What were the names of the two Confederate Commissioners that were taken prisoner by Union naval personnel off the British ship Trent while traveling in England in 1861?
Q#9 – Who was the first Speaker of the Confederate House of Representatives?
Q#10 – Who was the Speaker of the US House of Representatives at the start of the Civil War in April, 1861?
Q#11 – During President Lincoln’s time in office, who held the cabinet position of Secretary of Commerce?
Q#12 – What was the name of the Governor of Maryland in 1861 who opposed abolitionists and supported slave owners, but also sought to prevent Maryland from seceding and joining the Confederacy?
Q#13 – Who was the Confederate States’ first Attorney General, who later was named its Secretary of War?
Q#14 – What was the name of the US Congressman who during his term in office introduced the first bill for a constitutional amendment abolishing slavery that eventually led to the adoption of the 13th amendment to the US Constitution?
Q#15 – What was the name of the Governor of Massachusetts who authorized the creation of the first Negro military unit in the Union Army, the 54th Massachusetts Regiment?